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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Koch, Cynthia M. "The Virtuous Curriculum: Schoolbooks and American Culture, 1785-1830," University of Pennsylvania, May 1991. Advisor: Murray G. Murphey (2, 11, 6)
Content-analysis of the eighteen most popular reading textbooks used during the early national period illuminates a culture of virtue—rather than rugged individualism—in the Anglo-American middle class. American students, studying readers of British and American origin, were taught to be humble, dutiful, obedient, considerate, and temperate. Their understanding of a divinely conceived universe and their place within it engendered social conformity and respect for nature. These compliant values were universal except when the textbooks dealt (in a minority of lessons) with issues of war and nationhood—where both British and American political ideology fostered values of aggression and individualism.
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