Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Historiography of Urban Public Education in Pennsylvania
Vol. CXLI, No. 3 (October 2017) 1 Thomas Woody, Early Quaker Education in Pennsylvania (New York, 1920); Carter G. Woodson, The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 (New York, 1915); Woody, The Educational Views of Benjamin Franklin (New York, 1931); George S. Brookes, Friend Anthony Benezet (Philadelphia, 1937). See also John Hardin Best, ed., Benjamin Franklin on Education (New York, 1962); and George W. Boudreau, “‘Done by a Tradesman’: Franklin’s Educational Proposals and the Culture of Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History 69 (2002): 524–57 (hereafter cited as PH). REVIEW ESSAY