David Komline is Associate Professor of Church History at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Heidelberg. He has published essays in Religion and American Culture, Anglican and Episcopal History, and several edited collections.

Komline's meticulous account will be of interest to scholars of education, religion, and reform. Moreover, its simultaneously sympathetic and analytical approach to reformers' good intentions, mixed achievements, and unintended results -- along with its graceful narrative -- makes it a quiet pleasure to read.

• Introduction 1. Joseph Lancaster, Monitorial Education, and Christianity without Sectarianism 2. "The Schoolmaster is Abroad": Early International Influences on American Education 3. Early Attempts at Revival in Massachusetts4. The "Prussian System": Origins and Transmission5. "The Educational Regeneration of New England": The Height of the Awakening in Massachusetts 6. The Common School Awakening in Ohio7. An Awakening for Whom? Tensions in Ohio Epilogue- The End of the Awakening AcknowledgementsArchives ConsultedNotesIndex

David Komline is Associate Professor of Church History at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Heidelberg. He has published essays in Religion and American Culture, Anglican and Episcopal History, and several edited collections.

Komline's meticulous account will be of interest to scholars of education, religion, and reform. Moreover, its simultaneously sympathetic and analytical approach to reformers' good intentions, mixed achievements, and unintended results -- along with its graceful narrative -- makes it a quiet pleasure to read.

• Introduction 1. Joseph Lancaster, Monitorial Education, and Christianity without Sectarianism 2. "The Schoolmaster is Abroad": Early International Influences on American Education 3. Early Attempts at Revival in Massachusetts4. The "Prussian System": Origins and Transmission5. "The Educational Regeneration of New England": The Height of the Awakening in Massachusetts 6. The Common School Awakening in Ohio7. An Awakening for Whom? Tensions in Ohio Epilogue- The End of the Awakening AcknowledgementsArchives ConsultedNotesIndex

David Komline is Associate Professor of Church History at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Heidelberg. He has published essays in Religion and American Culture, Anglican and Episcopal History, and several edited collections.

Komline's meticulous account will be of interest to scholars of education, religion, and reform. Moreover, its simultaneously sympathetic and analytical approach to reformers' good intentions, mixed achievements, and unintended results -- along with its graceful narrative -- makes it a quiet pleasure to read.

• Introduction 1. Joseph Lancaster, Monitorial Education, and Christianity without Sectarianism 2. "The Schoolmaster is Abroad": Early International Influences on American Education 3. Early Attempts at Revival in Massachusetts4. The "Prussian System": Origins and Transmission5. "The Educational Regeneration of New England": The Height of the Awakening in Massachusetts 6. The Common School Awakening in Ohio7. An Awakening for Whom? Tensions in Ohio Epilogue- The End of the Awakening AcknowledgementsArchives ConsultedNotesIndex