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The Department of Education Battle, 1918–1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order. By Douglas J. Slawson. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xvi, 332 pp. $43.00, ISBN 0-268-04110-5.)
The Department of Education Battle is a meticulously researched and engaging account of a virtually unknown chapter in the history of American education and religion. While the 1925 U.S. Supreme Court case Pierce v. Society of Sisters—in which the Court overturned an Oregon law that would have required every child to attend public school, virtually closing all parochial schools—may be known to some, this volume places that law and the successful court challenge in a much larger context. . . .
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