| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Homeschool: An American History. By Milton Gaither. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 273 pp. Cloth, $89.95, ISBN 978-0-230-60599-2. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-230-60600-5.)

Scholarly histories of education commonly emphasize ideology, policy disputes, and organizational development more than what teachers taught or children learned. Homeschool is firmly in that tradition. Milton Gaither's narrative centers on the relationship between home and school, proceeding from the colonial era, when government supported schooling at home, through the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, when formal schools achieved hegemony, eclipsing homeschooling. Then, mainly since 1970, antagonisms directed against "the mass culture of the modern liberal state" (p. 85) led countercultural parents—some leftists and many evangelical conservatives—toward privatism and homeschooling. Idealizing the family as a bastion against false values, post-Calvinist evangelicals also saw each child as "a promise" and "a possibility" (p. 114).

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