1. See, e.g., Carl F. Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780–1860 (New York, 1983).
2. For more on the national university debate, see G. Brown Goode, “The Origin of the National Scientific and Educational Institutions of the United States,” Papers of the American Historical Association 4 (April 1890);
3. H. G. Good, “Who First Proposed a National University?” School and Society III (March 11, 1916): 387–391;
4. Allen Oscar Hansen, Liberalism and American Education in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1926);
5. Edgar Brice Wesley, Proposed: The University of the United States (Minneapolis, 1936);