Bilingual public schooling in the United States: a history of America's "polyglot boardinghouse"

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Drafting the Blueprints for This Old Boardinghouse

1. Laying the Foundation for the Boardinghouse: The Context of Nineteenth-Century Schooling and Bilingualism

2. Building the Polyglot Boardinghouse in the Northeast and the South

3. Inside The Boardinghouse's Parlor

4. Polyglot Boarders Move West

5. Nativism among the Homeowners: The Metaphysics of Foreigner-Hating

6. Progressivism, Science, and the Remodeling of the Boardinghouse

7. "If You Can't Fight over There, Fight over Here": World War I and the Partial Destruction of the Boardinghouse

8. Rebuilding the Boardinghouse: The Interwar Years

Epilogue: The Federal Landlord

Notes

Bibliography

Index