Historian Describes Homeschooling as Longstanding American Practice

Com presents homeschooling as a longstanding practice in the United States. The text states that in-home learning dates to the country's founding and references figures from that era.

The article notes that Abigail Adams and Abraham Lincoln both received instruction at home. It includes a 1936 photograph of children studying at home in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. Dixie Dillon Lane, identified as an American historian and author of Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstream, wrote the piece.

Lane is also listed as an associate editor at Hearth & Field and a contributing editor at Front Porch Republic. The article opens with an anecdote from a party in Paris where Lane described her research on homeschooling to an attendee unfamiliar with the subject.