Seminary for social power: the classroom becomes woman's sphere / Nancy Hoffman -- Pioneering the education of young women / Emma Hart Willard -- Teaching in the little red schoolhouse / Lucia B. Downing -- Remedy for wrongs to women / Catherine Beecher -- "Civilizing" the West: letters from teachers on the frontier / Ellen P. Lee and Mary S. Adams -- Preparing to teach: a journal / Mary Swift -- Reminiscences of school life, and hints on teaching / Fanny Jackson-Coppin -- The schoolmarm / Anna Fuller -- A noble work done earnestly: Missionary teachers in the Civil War South / Nancy Hoffman -- Teaching during the Civil War: a fourteen-year-old's story / Susie King Taylor -- Missionary maidens / Mary Clemmer Ames -- From northern home to southern dangers / Maria S. Waterbury -- Sisters in the service / Sarah Chase, Lucy Chase, Julia Rutledge -- Hard work every day: a New England woman's diary in Dixie / Mary Ames -- An African American teacher in South Carolina / Charlotte L. Forten -- Emancipation's primer : the Freedmen's book / Lydia Maria Child -- New rules for African American and White / Elizabeth Hyde Botume -- An African American Oberlin student goes South / Sara Stanley -- A good life, staying on / Laura M. Towne -- The march of progress / Charles W. Chesnutt -- Teaching in the big city: Women, the education bureaucracy, and teacher organizing / Nancy Hoffman -- The true character of the New York public schools / Adele Marie Shaw -- The inquisition of the teacher, or , "Gum Shoe Tim" on the war-path / Myra Kelly -- Schoolteacher's nightmare / Mary Abigail Dodge -- The first class: a reminiscence / Marian Dogherty -- An immigrant student and her teacher / Mary Antin -- My mother's principal and mine: a personal interview with Mary Agnes Dwyer / Nancy Hoffman -- Teaching in an African American boarding school / Frances O. Grant -- Public schools "owned" by politicians / Amelia Allison -- Why teachers should organize / Margaret Haley -- Equal pay for equal work / Grace C. Strachan.