Pillars_of_the_Republic:_Common_Schools_and_American_Society,_1780-1860
Pillars of the Republic is history book on the origins of the American common schools written by Carl Kaestle and published by Hill & Wang in 1983.
Rebecca Brooks Gruver of Hunter College described the book as "a comprehensive and [...] concise history" of how public schooling developed in a "common" fashion in the United States.[1] Thedore R. Mitchell of Dartmouth College stated that additionally, the book includes "the state of educational history".[2]
There are eight major chapters. Five of them cover the range 1830-1860.[3]