@article{1478862,
      author = {Richard, Carl J., },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478862},
      title = {The Golden Age of the Classics in America : Greece, Rome,  and the Antebellum United States /},
      abstract = {In a masterful study Carl Richard explores how the Greek  and Roman classics became enshrined in American antebellum  culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics  extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class,  women, African Americans, and frontier settlers. The Civil  War led to a radical alteration of the educational system  in a way that steadily eroded the preeminence of the  classics.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054493},
      recid = {1478862},
      pages = {1 online resource (272 p.)},
}