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The most comprehensive bibliography is Clyde S. King, Horace Mann, 1796–1859: A Bibliography (1966). The definitive biography is Jonathan Messerli, Horace Mann (1972). Popular biographies are Louise Hall Tharp, Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody (1953, reprinted 1977); and Robert B. Downs, Horace Mann, Champion of Public Schools (1974). Jonathan C. Messerli, “Horace Mann at Brown,” Harvard Educational Review, 33(3):285–311 (1963), throws light on Mann’s early years. Robert L. Straker, The Unseen Harvest: Horace Mann and Antioch College (1955), deals authoritatively with the Antioch period. The standard contemporary work is Mary Tyler (Peabody) Mann (ed.), Life and Works of Horace Mann, rev. ed., 5 vol. (1891). Excerpts from the annual reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education are in L.A. Cremin (ed.), Republic and the School: Horace Mann on the Education of Free Men (1957, reissued 1962).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 30, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Horace Mann, the Promoter of Public Education. | Apr 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography - Horace Mann. | Feb 09, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Disability History Museum - Horace Mann And The Creation Of The Common School. | Apr 19, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 25, 2024 | ||
| Link added. | Feb 23, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopedia Brunoniana - Horace Mann. | May 15, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: StateUniversity.com - Horace Mann. | Mar 15, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University - Biography of Horace Mann. | Mar 15, 2021 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Dec 17, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Horace Mann. | Dec 13, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | May 25, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Only A Teacher - Biography of Horace Mann. | Jan 20, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Famous People - Biography of Horace Mann. | Jul 14, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: NC State University - Biography of Horace Mann. | Aug 27, 2010 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Notre Dame - Biography of Mann Horace. | Aug 27, 2010 | ||
| Add new Web site: Unitarian Universalist Association - Biography of Horace Mann. | Aug 27, 2010 | ||
| Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Horace Mann. | Aug 27, 2010 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Horace Mann. | Aug 27, 2010 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 09, 2006 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Jun 09, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |