Bibliography

Architecture/Preservation

Glithero, Patrick J. "Rural Preservation: Developing Our Perspectives." Illinois Heritage Association
Technical Insert No. 21. May-June 1986 McCormick, Virginia E. Educational Architecture in Ohio: From One-Room Schools and Libraries to Community Education Villages

Children's Stories

Bial, Raymond. One-room School. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1999.
Charyk John C. Syrup Pails and Gophertails [sound recording] : memories of a one-room school. 1984.
Graves, Kerry A. Going to School in Pioneer Times. Capstone Press. 2002.
Cohen, Barbara. Molly's Pilgrim. NY: Lothrop, 1983.
Frey, Janet. Apple Valley School : a simulation of pioneer life in a one-room schoolhouse. 1992
Hausherr, Rosmarie. The One-room School at Squabble Hollow.1988
Houston, Gloria. My Great Arizona. New York: Harper Collins Publishers,1992.
Kalman, Bobbie.
~ A One-room School. Historic Communities Series. New York: Crabtree Publishing. 1994
~ Early Schools, The Early Settler Life Series. New York: Crabtree Publishing , 1982.
~ Games From Long Ago, Historic Communities Series. New York: Crabtree Publishing , 1995.
~ 19th Century Clothing, Historic Communities
~ Schoolyard Games. Historic Communities Series. New York: Crabtree Publishing , 2001.
McKenzie, Ellen Kindt. Stargone John.1990 ; illustrated by William Low.
MacLachlan, Patricia. Three Names. NY: Harper Collins, 1991.
Merwin, Decie. Schoolhouse in the woods.1949
Newell, C. Little Schoolhouse.1958.
Pringle, Laurence. One room school. 1998 illustrated by Barbara Garrison
Randolph, Ryan P. Frontier Schools and Schoolteachers. 2003.
Schelstrate, Barbara. One-room schools [sound recording].1982
Sindledecker, Ginny Bell. Teens of yesteryear and a one room school.. 1999
Tate, Eleanora E. Front porch stories at the one-room school (paperback 1992; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.
Wilder Laura Ingalls. School days. 1997 ; illustrated by Renee Graef.
Country school. 1955 Pictures by Louis Darling.

Fiction

Aldrich, Bess Streeter. A Lantern in Her Hand. New York: Grosset / Dunlap,1928.
Garlin, Hamlin. A Son of the Middle Border. New York: Macmillan,1917.
Giles, Janet Holt. Miss Willie.
Marshall, Catherine. Christy. Avon, 1967.

Personal Stories

Clements, Grace N. I Heard School Bells, Oil Wells and Children's Laughter. Winona, MN: Apollo Books,1984.
Cole, Camille. The Brass Bell. Lake Oswego, 2013.
Duling, Gretchen. Oral life histories of one-room schoolhouse teachers :voices from the recitation bench.
Falk, Bonnie Hughes. Country School Memories (Minnesota). 1986.
Forbes, Joy. Perserverance, Pranks and Pride - Tales of the One-Room Schoolhouse.
Kabatek, Anna B. Island Schoolmarm: Memories of One-Room Schools on the St. Mary's River. Marquette, MI: A.B. Kabatek, 1996.
Kinkead Joyce A Schoolmarm All My Life. Personal Narratives from Frontier Utah
Lutes, Della. Country Schoolma'am. New York Little,1941.
Manning. Hill Country Teacher.
Melchior, Tom. They called me teacher : stories of Minnesota country school teachers and students, 1915-1960.
Miles, William. School Ma'm: The Story of Ellen L. Woodworth. Mt. Pleasant, MI: Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, [1976].
Reiter, Joan Swallow. The Women . NY:Time-Life Books, 1978. (pages 86-95)
Shipe, Bess Paterson. Country School Boy. Illustrations by Carol Stuart Watson. (Actual experiences at Seneca Schoolhouse in 1880's).
Stienecker, David. A Frontier Teacher. 1994 ; illustrated by Virginia Kylberg.
Stuart, Jesse. Thread That Runs So True. NY: Scribner, 1963.
Tennis, Rose Hamlin. The School that Was: A Schoolmarm's Tale. Fowlerville, MI: Wilderness Adventure Books, 1990.
Tompkins, Susie Powers. Cotton-Patch Schoolhouse. University of Alabama Press,1992.
Walsh, Edwina. Schoolmarms: Women in America's Schools. 1995 Caddo Gap Press 3145 Geary Blvd, Suite 275 San Francisco, CA 94118. ISBN: 1-880192-14-4
Tisha: the story of a young teacher in the Alaskan wilderness [sound recording] 1981 [Anne Hobbs]
Webster, Emma Lucile. An Autobiography of a One-Room School Teacher: Scotch Settlement School of Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. Dearborn, MI: Webster, 1978.

Publishers

One-Room School House Publications by MT Publishing Company, Evansville, IN.

Regional Works

Albers, Everett and Henke, Warren. The Legacy of North Dakota's Country Schools.
Apps, Jerry. One-Room Country Schools -- History and Recollections from Wisconsin. Amherst Press.
Barger, Eloise R. "Coles County Unit District Number One." class paper, Eastern Illinois University, 1951.
Brown County, Ohio Schools of the Past. Compiled by The Brown County, Ohio Historical Society. Contact MT Publishing at 1-888-263-4702 for information on how to purchase this title, 2009.
District #1." Master's Dissertation, Eastern Illinois University, 1977.
Echoes From One-Room Schools: Monroe County, Indiana.
Farquhar, Janet. Taught to the Tune. 2000.
Fender, Joe. Greenwood School. Charleston, IL: Prairie Press, 1970.
Fuller, Wayne E. One-Room Schools of the Middle West. University Press of Kansas.
Harding, Thomas. One Room Schoolhouses of Arkansas As Seen Through a Pinhole. 1993.
Henke, Warren A. The Legacy of North Dakota's Country Schools. 1997
Hill, William James. "A Concise History of Education in Illinois with Special Reference to Coles County and Charleston Community Unit School.
Frenz, Robert W. Historic Country Schools of McHenry County, Illinois. Sponsored by The McHenry County Historical Society. Contact MT Publishing at 1-888-263-4702 for information on how to purchase this title, 2008.
Hittmeier, Glen E. "History of Rural Schools of Ashmore Township Community Unit District #1; Coles County, Illinois." class paper, Eastern Illinois University, 1953.
Kaufman, Polly Welts. Women Teachers on the Frontier. Yale UniversityPress, 1984.Illustrated with portraits of several of the teachers and includes maps and pictures of old schoolhouses. Frontier Press Bookstore, (800) 772-755
Lawrence, Donna Converse.There's No School Like an Old School: An Illustrated History of Marion County's One-Room Schools and the Marion City Schools. Order information: 740.387.1057.
McKinney, Willis. A History of Coles County Schools, Coles County Historical Series. Charleston, IL: Coles County Historical Society, no date..
Ohman, Doug. Schoolhouses of Minnesota. MHS Press. 2006.
Royer, Warren . Memories of the Heart: Rural Schools of Illinois. 2002.
Putnam County, Ohio One Room Schools. 1985.
Wilson, Norma C. One-Room Country School: South Dakota Stories. South Dakota Humanities Foundation, 1998.
Wilson, Marcia Gudmunsen , Editor. Rural Schools Journeys: A Legacy of Learning. Compiled by DeKalb County Historical-Genealogical Society, 2006.

Scholarly Works

Finkelstein, Barbara. Governing the Young. (describes and discusses 19th century classrooms and includes narratives from the time, using first hand accounts to take us into the schoolrooms of the day.)
Banard, Henry. School Architecture. New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1848; Columbia, NY: Teacher's College Press, 1970.
Fuller, Wayne E. One-Room Schools of the Middle West: An Illustrated History. University Press of Kansas.
Fuller, Wayne E. The Old Country School: The Story of Rural Education in the Middle West . University of Chicago Press.
Glithero, Patrick J. "Rural Preservation: Developing Our Perspectives." Illinois Heritage Association Technical Insert No. 21. May-June 1986.
Gulliford, Andrew. America's Country Schools. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1984, 1991.
Hothem, Lar & Sue. School Collectibles of the Past. Lancaster, OH: Hothem House, 1993.
Peabody, George. "School Days, The One-Room Schools of Maritime Canada" (Goose Lane, Fredericton, 1992) Can be ordered from George Peabody, at [email protected].
Westerhoff III, John H. McGuffey and His Readers. Abingdon, 1978.
Country school legacy, humanities on the frontier [motion picture]1981 Mountain-Plains Library Association; [produced by] Photo-America ; producer, Randall Teeuwen.
Zimmermn, Johnathan. Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory .Yale University Press., 2009.
Eclectic Educational Series. Ray's Elementary Arithmetic. New York: American Book Company, 1879.