American Education

American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 is a 1980 nonfiction book by American historian Lawrence A. Cremin, published by Harper & Row. The book is the second volume in Cremin's trilogy on US schools throughout the nation's history. In 1981, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for History.^[1]

The book is treated as a failure by Sol Cohen and most reviewers. They argued it covers too much ground– all of cultural history– too thinly.^[2]

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Pulitzer Prize for History

1917–1919

• With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand (1917)
• A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 by James Ford Rhodes (1918)

1920–1939

• The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith (1920)
• The Victory at Sea by William Sims and Burton J. Hendrick (1921)
• The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams (1922)
• The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren (1923)
• The American Revolution by Charles Howard McIlwain (1924)
• History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson (1925)
• A History of the United States by Edward Channing (1926)
• Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis (1927)
• Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington (1928)
• The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 by Fred Albert Shannon (1929)
• The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne (1930)
• The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt (1931)
• My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing (1932)
• The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner (1933)
• The People's Choice by Herbert Agar (1934)
• The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews (1935)
• A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin (1936)
• The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (1937)
• The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 by Paul Herman Buck (1938)
• A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott (1939)

1940–1959

• Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (1940)
• The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen (1941)
• Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 by Margaret Leech (1942)
• Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes (1943)
• The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti (1944)
• Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal (1945)
• The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1946)
• Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III (1947)
• Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto (1948)
• The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols (1949)
• Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (1950)
• The Old Northwest by R. Carlyle Buley (1951)
• The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin (1952)
• The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield (1953)
• A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (1954)
• Great River by Paul Horgan (1955)
• The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (1956)
• Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan (1957)
• Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond (1958)
• The Republican Era, 1869–1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider (1959)

1960–1979

• In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (1960)
• Between War and Peace by Herbert Feis (1961)
• The Triumphant Empire by Lawrence H. Gipson (1962)
• Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green (1963)
• Puritan Village by Sumner Chilton Powell (1964)
• The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (1965)
• The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller (1966)
• Exploration and Empire by William H. Goetzmann (1967)
• The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (1968)
• Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard Levy (1969)
• Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson (1970)
• Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns (1971)
• Neither Black nor White by Carl N. Degler (1972)
• People of Paradox by Michael Kammen (1973)
• The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstin (1974)
• Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone (1975)
• Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan (1976)
• The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 by David M. Potter (completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher; 1977)
• The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1978)
• The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher (1979)

1980–1999

• Been in the Storm So Long by Leon Litwack (1980)
• American Education by Lawrence A. Cremin (1981)
• Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward (1982)
• The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 by Rhys Isaac (1983)
• Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw (1985)
• ...The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall (1986)
• Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn (1987)
• The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce (1988)
• Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson (1989)
• Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (1989)
• In Our Image by Stanley Karnow (1990)
• A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1991)
• The Fate of Liberty by Mark E. Neely Jr. (1992)
• The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (1993)
• No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1995)
• William Cooper's Town by Alan Taylor (1996)
• Original Meanings by Jack N. Rakove (1997)
• Summer for the Gods by Edward J. Larson (1998)
• Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (1999)

2000–2021

• Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy (2000)
• Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis (2001)
• The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand (2002)
• An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson (2003)
• A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn (2004)
• Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (2005)
• Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky (2006)
• The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (2007)
• What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (2008)
• The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed (2009)
• Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2010)
• The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner (2011)
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (2012)
• Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall (2013)
• The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor (2014)
• Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015)
• Custer's Trials by T. J. Stiles (2016)
• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson (2017)
• The Gulf by Jack E. Davis (2018)
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (2019)
• Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel (2020)
• Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (2021)
• Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace / Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer (2022)
• Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie (2023)
• No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones (2024)

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