CT Explored/Inbox PREMIUM

Welcome to the 2nd installment of the Spring 2025 issue, right to your inbox. The theme for the Spring issue is “The Power of Words.” To read the issue, use pw: ctesubscriber.

Mar 15, 2025

∙ Paid

Henry Barnard and the Common Schools

By Gene Leach © Connecticut Explored

Portrait of Henry Barnard, ca. 1860. Sketch from a daguerreotype. image: Open Library, Internet Archive

Henry Barnard, educator, reformer, and the first U.S. commissioner of education, modeled earnest civic endeavor in Victorian America. In a country brimming with movements to improv…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to CTExplored/Inbox to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.