A history of the eight state teachers colleges in Massachusetts on the 175th anniversary of the founding of the first state normal school in Massachusetts.

Records of meetings, papers, etc. of the department are also to be found in Proceedings of the National Education Association.

Starting in New England with academies, seminaries, institutes, and the birth of the state normal schools, Kelly Kolodny and Mary-Lou Breitborde explore the origins of teacher preparation in the United States as these schools expanded geographically, in substance and form, throughout the south and west.