Institution: | Nancy Beadie and Kim Tolley are collaborating on an edited book entitled Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727–1925;(New York: Rout- ledge, forthcoming). They would like to thank Richard Altenbaugh and the anonymous reviewers of the HEQ for their critical readings of earlier drafts of these essays and for their suggestions for further research. They also wish to acknowledge the long-standing support and encouragement of Linda Eisenmann for this project. |