The Development of Historical Study in the Secondary Schools of the United States (Concluded)

Abstract

The types of early secondary schools.-The grammar schools in the height of their development fell within the colonial period. The school which then rose to great popularity was the academy. We have seen the plans for the Philadelphia Academy, and the mention of a few others, but following the Revolution academies were incorporated and endowed in large numbers in all the states and were recognized as the secondary schools. The aim of the academy contrasted with that of the grammar school shows the difference between the schools-a broad, liberal education versus a preparation for the university.In a later period the free public high school was organized. This system of secondary education finally triumphed over the academy about the middle of the nineteenth century. Academies and grammar schools in which history was a subject.