Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword - Kelly Ritter
Introduction: Adding New Stories to the History of Composition and Rhetoric - Lori Ostergaard and Henrietta Rix Wood
Part I: High Schools
1. The Rhetorical Praxis of Central High School Students, 1894–1924 - Henrietta Rix Wood
2. “Raise Your Right Arm / And Pull on Your Tongue!”: Reading Silence(s) at the Albuquerque Indian School - Whitney Myers
3. Radical, Conservative, Extreme: The Rhetorical Education of the Prince Edward County Free School Association, 1963–1964 - Candace Epps-Robertson
4. “These Parts of People Escaping on Paper”: Reading Our Educational Past Through the High School Diary of Pat Huyett, 1966–1969 - Jane Greer
Part II. Normal Schools
5. “Stand ‘Mum’”: Women’s Silence at the Lexington Academy, 1839–1841 - Melissa Ianetta
6. “Shall the Courses in Composition and Literature Be Divided? Yes”: Curricular Separation at the Illinois State Normal University, 1892–1916 - Lori Ostergaard
7. “A Home for Thought Where Learning Rules”: Progressive Era Students and Teacher Identity at a Historic Normal School - Beth Ann Rothermel
8. “Be Patient, But Don’t Wait!”: The Activist Ethos of Student Journalism at the Colored State Normal School, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, 1892–1937 - Elaine Hays
Part III. Building Secondary-Postsecondary Connections
9. Adapting Male Education for a Nation of Females: Sara Lockwood’s 1888 Lessons in English - Nancy Myers
10. Toward a Genealogy of Composition: Student Discipline and Development at Harvard in the Late Nineteenth Century - Edward J. Comstock
11. Project English: Cold War Paradigms and the Teaching of Composition - Curtis Mason
Afterword - Jessica Enoch
Contributors
Index