Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic - Hardcover

Oberle, George D.

 
9780813954158: Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0813954150 ISBN 13: 9780813954158
Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Examining the early debates in the United States over how best to educate the constituents of the new nation. When the founding fathers of the United States inaugurated a system of government that was unprecedented in the modern world, they knew that a functioning democracy required an educated electorate capable of making rational decisions. But who would validate the information that influenced citizens' opinions? By spotlighting various institutions of learning, George Oberle provides a comprehensive look at how knowledge was created, circulated, and consumed in the early American republic. Many of the founders, including George Washington, initially favored the creation of a centralized national university to educate Americans from all backgrounds. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, however, politicians moved away from any notion of publicly educated laypeople generating useful knowledge. The federal government ultimately founded the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, to be run by experts only. Oberle's insightful analysis of the competing ideas over the nature of education offers food for thought as we continue to grapple with a rapidly evolving media landscape amid contested meanings of knowledge, expertise, and the obligations of citizenship.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

George D. Oberle III is History Librarian, Associate Term Professor, and the Director of the Center for Mason Legacies at George Mason University.

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Verlag
University of Virginia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813954150
ISBN 13 
9780813954158
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Anzahl der Seiten
252
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