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Emiles and Sophies: How Noah Webster Educated America’s Youth Like Characters from Rousseau

Journal article History of Political Thought · November 30, 2025 In 1785, Noah Webster was writing the schoolbooks that made him America’s most influential educator. The same year, he published two ‘fan fiction’ sequels to Rousseau’s Emile: or On Education Full text Cite

The Dead Hand

Digital publication · July 15, 2025 A short story about nuclear weapons and the Cold War. ... Link to item Cite

Did Martin Luther King, Jr. Convert His Enemies?

Other Real Clear History · January 20, 2025 Link to item Cite

Noah Webster and the Influence of Rousseau on Education in America, 1785–1835

Journal article American Political Thought · September 1, 2024 Full text Cite