Joseph F. Kett, The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: From Self-Improvement to Adult Education in America, 1750-1990 (Stanford University Press, 1994).
the book is an invaluable repository of historical information about the organization of learning in the United States independent of formal credentialing institutions, and is therefore an invaluable springboard for further study.
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