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Detail from a Harper’s Weekly cartoon by Thomas Nast, February 26, 1870. (LOC)

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Education Reform in Antebellum America

Education reform is often at the heart of all great reform struggles.[1]

By the 1820s Americans were...

Sylvester Graham, Treatise on Bread and Bread-Making (Boston, 1837). (Google Bk)

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Sylvester Graham and Antebellum Diet Reform

“Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.” So begins Michael Pollan’s 2009 book, In Defense of Food. Pollan has made a career...