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(1925-1990) Historian. Lawrence A. Cremin was born in and died in New York, New York.

Full Name

Lawrence A Cremin

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1925

BIRTH

Lawrence A. Cremin was born in New York, New York, on October 31, 1925.

1949

OTHER

Mr. Cremin received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1949.

1951

LITWORK

The American Common School An Historic Conception
Bureau of Publications Columbia University

Nonfiction.

1961

LITWORK

The Transformation of the School; Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957
Alfred A. Knopf
0394449371 / 978-0394449371
Nonfiction, winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1962.

1965

LITWORK

The Wonderful World of Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Teachers College Press
0807712124 / 978-0807712122
Nonfiction.

1970

LITWORK

American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783
Harper & Row

Nonfiction.

1974

OTHER

Mr. Cremin was president of Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City, from 1974 to 1984.

1976

LITWORK

Public Education
Basic Books
0465067751 / 978-0465067756
Nonfiction.

1977

LITWORK

Traditions of American Education
Basic Books
0465086853 / 978-0465086856
Nonfiction.

1980

LITWORK

American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
Harpercollins
0060109122 / 978-0060109127
Nonfiction, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1981.

1988

LITWORK

American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980
Harpercollins
0060158042 / 978-0060158040
Nonfiction.

1989

LITWORK

Popular Education and Its Discontents
Harper & Row

Nonfiction.

1990

DEATH

Lawrence A. Cremin died in New York, New York, on September 4, 1990.

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