PBS Online: Only A Teacher: Schoolhouse Pioneers - Horace Mann
http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html

Horace Mann

Student Reseach Center (EBSCO)

Overview of Horace Mann, the “Father of American Education”
http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/mann.htm

Henry Barnard

Student Resource Center (GALE)

Summary of Horace Mann’s major educational reform accomplishments http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/mann.htm

Emma Hart Willard
(1787-1870)

Grolier Online

Information on Horace Mann from a Public Television series http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/innovators/mann.html

Biography Resource Center (iCONN)

A Brief History of Staunton, Virginia – a community outside of the Northeast that pioneered education for women and the handicapped in the Jackson era http://www.iath.virginia.edu/staunton/history.html

Information on Henry Barnard – an early education reformer in Connecticut and Rhode Island http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/ct1818_1865/barnard.htm

Additional summary material on Henry Barnard http://www.bartleby.com/65/ba/BarnardH.html