Lawrence A. Cremin Papers, 1932-2007, bulk 1939-1990

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Series VI: Books, 1925-2003



Box 9 R. Bruce Raup's personal, annotated copy of John Dewey, Experience and Nature (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1925), 1925, (1 item)


Box 9 Lawrence Arthur Cremin, The American Common School: An Historic Conception (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1951), 1951, (1 item)


Box 9 Arthur T. Cremin, The Adventures of Violinco (New York: Music Lovers League, Publishers, 1953), 1953, (1 item)


Box 9 R. Freeman Butts and Lawrence A. Cremin, A History of Education in American Culture (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1953), 1953, (1 item)



Box 4 Materials tucked inside A History of Education in American Culture,, 1952-1954, 1 folders



Box 9 Public Education and the Future of America (Washington, D.C.: Educational Policies Commission, 1955), 1955, (1 item)


Box 9 Lawrence A. Cremin and Merle L. Borrowman, Public Schools in Our Democracy, translated into Indonesian by Widiawaty (Djakarta: Endang, 1956), 1956, (1 item)


Box 9 Arabic translation of Horace Mann, The Republic and the School: On the Education of Free Men, edited by Lawrence Cremin,, 1957, (1 item)


Box 9 Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The Colonial Experience (New York: Random House, 1958), 1958, (1 item)



Box 5 Materials tucked inside covers of The Americans: The Colonial Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1958-1974, 1 folders



Box 9 Dewey on Education: Selections, introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1959), 1959, (1 item)


Box 9 R. Freeman Butts and Lawrence A. Cremin, A History of Education in American Culture, translated into Spanish by Lyda C. Iglesias and Enrique Alt (Buenos Aires: Editorial Bibliográfica Argentina, 1960), 1960, (1 item)


Box 9 Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961), 1961, (2 items)



Box 5 Materials tucked inside The Transformation of the School, 1961-1972, 1 folders



Box 9 Lawrence A. Cremin, The Genius of American Education, Horace Mann Lectures (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1965), 1965, (1 item)


Box 9 The Voice of America's Forum Lectures on Education, translated into Japanese by Yutaka Okihara, circa 1965), 1965, (1 item)


Box 9 Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the School, translated into Spanish by Flora Setaro (Buenos Aires: Editorial Bibliográfica Argentina, 1969), 1969, (1 item)


Box 9 Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783 (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), 1970, (1 item)



Box 5 Materials tucked inside covers of American Education: The Colonial Experience,, 1972, 1978, 1 folders



Box 9 Japanese translation of R. Freeman Butts and Lawrence A. Cremin, A History of Education in American Culture (n.p.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, circa 1970s), 1970s, (1 item)


Box 9 Arthur T. Cremin, Ralph "The Great Fake," (New York: Music Lovers League, Publishers 1972), 1972, (1 item)


Box 9 The Future of Formal Education, edited by Torsten Husén (Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1979), 1979, (1 item)


Box 9 David Mathews, Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?: What Early Communities Have to Tell Us (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2003), 2003, (1 item)



Box 12 Horace Mann, The Republic and the School, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 1 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1957),, 1957, (1 item)


Box 12 American Ideas about Adult Education, 1710-1951, edited by C. Hartley Grattan, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 2 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1959),, 1959, (1 item)


Box 12 Dewey on Education: Selections, introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 3 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1959),, 1959, (1 item)


Box 12 The Supreme Court and Education, edited by David Fellman, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 4 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1960, 1969),, 1960, 1969, (1 item)


Box 12 International Education: A Documentary History, edited by David G. Scanlon, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 5 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1960),, 1960, (1 item)


Box 12 Crusade Against Ignorance: Thomas Jefferson on Education, edited by Gordon C. Lee, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 6 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1961),, 1961, (1 item)


Box 12 Chinese Education Under Communism, edited by Chang-tu Hu, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 7 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 12 Charles W. Eliot and Popular Education, edited by Edward A. Krug, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 8 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1961),, 1961, (1 item)


Box 12 The Emile of Jean Jacques Rousseau: Selections, edited and translated by William Boyd, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 10 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 12 The Minor Educational Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, translated by William Boyd, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 11 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 12 Psychology and the Science of Education: Selected Writings of Edward L. Thorndike, edited by Geraldine M. Joncich, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 12 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 12 The New-England Primer, introduction by Paul Leicester Ford, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 13 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 12 Benjamin Franklin on Education, edited by John Hardin Best, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 14 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 12 The Colleges and the Public, 1787-1862, edited by Theodore Rawson Crane, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 15 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1963),, 1963, (1 item)


Box 12 Traditions of African Education, edited by David G. Scanlon, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 16 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1964),, 1964, (1 item)


Box 12 Noah Webster's American Spelling Book, introductory essay by Henry Steele Commager, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 17 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 12 William Harrison Woodward, Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators, foreword by Eugene F. Rice, Jr., Teachers College Classics in Education No. 18 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1963),, 1963, (1 item)


Box 12 William Harrison Woodward, Desiderius Erasmus concerning the Aim and Method of Education, foreword by Craig R. Thompson, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 19 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1964),, 1964, (1 item)


Box 12 John Locke on Education, edited by Peter Gay, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 20 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1964),, 1964, (1 item)


Box 12 Catholic Education in America: A Documentary History, edited by Neil G. McCluskey, S. J., Teachers College Classics in Education No. 21 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1964),, 1964, (1 item)


Box 12 The Age of the Academies, edited by Theodore R. Sizer, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 22 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1964),, 1964, (1 item)


Box 12 Health, Growth, and Heredity: G. Stanley Hall on Natural Education, edited by Charles E. Strickland and Charles Burgess, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 23 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1965),, 1965, (1 item)


Box 12 Teacher Education in America: A Documentary History, edited by Merle L. Borrowman, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 24 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1965),, 1965, (1 item)


Box 12 The Educated Woman in America: Selected Writings of Catharine Beecher, Margaret Fuller, and M. Carey Thomas, edited by Barbara M. Cross, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 25 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1965),, 1965, (1 item)


Box 12 Emerson on Education: Selections, edited by Howard Mumford Jones, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 26 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1966),, 1966, (1 item)


Box 12 Frank Tracy Carlton, Economic Influences upon Educational Progress in the United States, 1820-1850, foreword by Lawrence A. Cremin, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 27 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1965),, 1965, (1 item)


Box 12 Quintilian on Education, translated by William M. Smail, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 28 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, [reprint of 1938 volume]),, [reprint of 1938 volume], (1 item)


Box 12 Aubrey Gwynn, S. J., Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 29 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, [reprint of 1926 volume]),, [reprint of 1926 volume], (1 item)


Box 12 Herbert Spencer on Education, edited by Andreas M. Kazamias, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 30 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1966),, 1966, (1 item)


Box 12 John Locke's Of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Francis W. Garforth, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 31 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1966),, 1966, (1 item)


Box 12 William Harrison Woodward, Studies in Education During the Age of the Renaissance, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 32 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1967),, 1967, (1 item)


Box 12 John Amos Comenius, John Amos Comenius on Education, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 33 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1967),, 1967, (1 item)


Box 12 Fritz Caspari, Humanism and the Social Order in Tudor England, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 34 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1968),, 1968, (1 item)


Box 12 Marian Leona Tobriner, S. N. J. M., Vives' Introduction to Wisdom: A Renaissance Textbook, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 35 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1968),, 1968, (1 item)


Box 12 Richard Lewis Nettleship, The Theory of Education in the Republic of Plato, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 36 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1968),, 1968, (1 item)


Box 12 Utopianism and Education: Robert Owen and the Owenites, edited by John F. C. Harrison, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 37 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1968),, 1968, (1 item)


Box 12 Kenneth J. Freeman, Schools of Hellas, foreword by William M. Calder III, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 38 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1969),, 1969, (1 item)


Box 12 The Educational Theories of the Sophists, edited by James L. Jarrett, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 39 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1969),, 1969, (1 item)


Box 12 Sir Thomas Elyot's The Book Named the Governor, edited by John M. Major, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 40 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1969),, 1969, (1 item)


Box 12 Jewish Education in the United States: A Documentary History, edited by Lloyd P. Gartner, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 41 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1969),, 1969, (1 item)


Box 12 Henry Barnard's School Architecture, edited by Jean and Robert McClintock, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 42 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1970),, 1970, (1 item)


Box 12 John Stuart Mill on Education, edited by Francis W. Garforth, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 43 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1971),, 1971, (1 item)


Box 12 Richard Mulcaster's Positions, edited by Richard L. DeMolen, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 44 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1971),, 1971, (1 item)


Box 12 John William Adamson, Pioneers of Modern Education in the Seventeenth Century, foreword by Joan Simon, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 45 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1971),, 1971, (1 item)



Box 13 The Great Awakening and American Education: A Documentary History, edited by Douglas Sloan, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 46 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1973),, 1973, (1 item)


Box 13 Joseph Lancaster and the Monitorial School Movement: A Documentary History, edited by Carl F. Kaestle, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 47 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1973),, 1973, (1 item)


Box 13 American Education and Vocationalism: A Documentary History, 1870-1970, edited by Marvin Lazerson and W. Norton Grubb, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 48 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1974),, 1974, (1 item)


Box 13 Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth on Popular Education, edited by Trygve R. Tholfsen, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 49 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1974),, 1974, (1 item)


Box 13 Henry Barnard: American Educator, edited by Vincent P. Lannie, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 50 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1974),, 1974, (1 item)


Box 13 Jane Addams on Education, edited by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 51 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1985),, 1985, (1 item)


Box 13 American Education in the Twentieth Century: A Documentary History, edited by Marvin Lazerson, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 52 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1987),, 1987, (1 item)


Box 13 Horace Mann, The Republic and the School, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 1 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1957),, 1957, (1 item)


Box 13 Dewey on Education: Selections, introduction and notes by Martin S. Dworkin, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 3 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1959),, 1959, (1 item)


Box 13 Crusade Against Ignorance: Thomas Jefferson on Education, edited by Gordon C. Lee, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 6 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1961),, 1961, (1 item)


Box 13 Psychology and the Science of Education: Selected Writings of Edward L. Thorndike, edited by Geraldine M. Joncich, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 12 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 13 The New-England Primer, introduction by Paul Leicester Ford, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 13 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 13 Benjamin Franklin on Education, edited by John Hardin Best, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 14 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 13 Noah Webster's American Spelling Book, introductory essay by Henry Steele Commager, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 17 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1962),, 1962, (1 item)


Box 13 William Harrison Woodward, Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators, foreword by Eugene F. Rice, Jr., Teachers College Classics in Education No. 18 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1963),, 1963, (1 item)


Box 13 William Harrison Woodward, Desiderius Erasmus concerning the Aim and Method of Education, foreword by Craig R. Thompson, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 19 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1964),, 1964, (1 item)


Box 13 John Locke on Education, edited by Peter Gay, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 20 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1964),, 1964, (1 item)


Box 13 Catholic Education in America: A Documentary History, edited by Neil G. McCluskey, S. J., Teachers College Classics in Education No. 21 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1964),, 1964, (1 item)


Box 13 Health, Growth, and Heredity: G. Stanley Hall on Natural Education, edited by Charles E. Strickland and Charles Burgess, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 23 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1965),, 1965, (1 item)


Box 13 Teacher Education in America: A Documentary History, edited by Merle L. Borrowman, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 24 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1965),, 1965, (1 item)


Box 13 The Educated Woman in America: Selected Writings of Catharine Beecher, Margaret Fuller, and M. Carey Thomas, edited by Barbara M. Cross, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 25 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1965),, 1965, (1 item)


Box 13 Emerson on Education: Selections, edited by Howard Mumford Jones, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 26 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1966),, 1966, (1 item)


Box 13 Frank Tracy Carlton, Economic Influences upon Educational Progress in the United States, 1820-1850, Lawrence A. Cremin (foreword), Teachers College Classics in Education No. 27 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1965),, 1965, (1 item)


Box 13 Aubrey Gwynn, S. J., Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 29 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, [reprint of 1926 volume]),, [reprint of 1926 volume], (1 item)


Box 13 Herbert Spencer on Education, edited by Andreas M. Kazamias, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 30 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1966),, 1966, (1 item)


Box 13 John Locke's Of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Francis W. Garforth, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 31 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1966),, 1966, (1 item)


Box 13 William Harrison Woodward, Studies in Education During the Age of the Renaissance, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 32 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1967),, 1967, (1 item)


Box 13 John Amos Comenius, John Amos Comenius on Education, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 33 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1967),, 1967, (1 item)


Box 13 Fritz Caspari, Humanism and the Social Order in Tudor England, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 34 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1968),, 1968, (1 item)


Box 13 Marian Leona Tobriner, S. N. J. M., Vives' Introduction to Wisdom: A Renaissance Textbook, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 35 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1968),, 1968, (1 item)


Box 13 Richard Lewis Nettleship, The Theory of Education in the Republic of Plato, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 36 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1968),, 1968, (1 item)


Box 13 Kenneth J. Freeman, Schools of Hellas, foreword by William M. Calder III, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 38 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1969),, 1969, (1 item)


Box 13 The Educational Theories of the Sophists, edited by James L. Jarrett, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 39 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1969),, 1969, (1 item)


Box 13 Sir Thomas Elyot's The Book Named the Governor, edited by John M. Major, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 40 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1969),, 1969, (1 item)


Box 13 Jewish Education in the United States: A Documentary History, edited by Lloyd P. Gartner, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 41 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1969),, 1969, (1 item)


Box 13 John Stuart Mill on Education, edited by Francis W. Garforth, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 43 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1971),, 1971, (1 item)


Box 13 Richard Mulcaster's Positions, edited by Richard L. DeMolen, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 44 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1971),, 1971, (1 item)


Box 13 John William Adamson, Pioneers of Modern Education in the Seventeenth Century, foreword by Joan Simon, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 45 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1971),, 1971, (1 item)


Box 13 Joseph Lancaster and the Monitorial School Movement: A Documentary History, edited by Carl F. Kaestle, Teachers College Classics in Education No. 47 (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University Bureau of Publications, 1973),, 1973, (1 item)



Box 44 Folder 8 Educational Forum Volume II, No. 2, 1983


Box 44 Folder 24 Brochures and Programs: Teachers College, NY School of Music, Carnegie Hall


Box 44 Folder 25 National Academy of Education


Box 44 Folder 26 Clippings


Box 44 Folder 30 Book Reviews (The New York Historical Society Quarterly), Volume LVI, October 1972