In Schooling in the Antebellum South, Sarah L. Hyde analyzes educational development in the Gulf South before the Civil War, not only revealing a thriving priva

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Relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through the Reconstruction era. In this history of America's first chartered st