1. Bernard Bailyn, Education in the Forming of American Society (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960), passim.
2. For example, see James Axtell, The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974);
3. David D. Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989);
4. E. Jennifer Monaghan, Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
5. In a study of the process by which America became modern, for example, Jon Butler has nothing to say about education, which as traditional theory suggests, was instrumental to the movement of traditional societies into modernity Jon Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776, new ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).