Biographical sketches of nearly six-hundred print and broadcast journalists from the 1600s to the present. Entries range from very brief to two pages, and the 18th and 19th centuries are the most extensively represented, with only the most prominent of current journalists making the cut. The introduction presents a lively précis of the practice of journalism in the United States. This is a great reference, useful as a starting point for historical...

Essays about twenty-five books which the author feels have had a profound effect on the nation's culture and conscience.

Biography of one of America's great educators and an early and effective champion of public schools. In addition to serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann served in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1827 to 1833) and the Massachusetts Senate (1834 to 1837). Acknowledged by educational historians as the Father of the Common School movement, Mann argued that universal public education was the most efficient...