Description: A radical egalitarian vision of the transatlantic, creole roots of American public education
Review Quotes: "Digging deeply into sources across centuries of time and mobilizing an impressive array of disciplines, Petra Munro Hendry not only recovers the early history of education in Louisiana from obscurity but discovers a profound and timely meaning in it. From richly detailed and compelling stories told about a diverse cast of people, readers learn up-close how they built intercultural public spaces through a transatlantic circuit of pedagogy that consistently challenged exclusionary constructs of empire and nation-state. Reimagining the Educated Citizen does nothing less than chart a much-needed alternative pathway for understanding the history of education in the United States."--Daniel H. Usner, Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History, Vanderbilt University