Not what historians say founding-era schools taught. What the surviving books, contracts, and manuscripts actually show. Every claim in this season is counted, sourced, and linked to the original document, no exceptions.
Most American education history is told from the top down: laws, institutions, famous names. This season works from the bottom up, the actual books a child held, the actual contract a schoolmaster signed, the actual page a teenager wrote in his own hand. The data is the episode. Where the record runs out, this season says so directly, instead of filling the gap with a confident guess.
The Schoolroom Archive is part of The Founders' Record's broader mission: primary sources only, institutional archives only, no secondary interpretation presented as fact. Each episode in this season is independently sourced and cited; nothing here is built on another episode's claims without its own direct verification. New episodes are added as research is completed, not on a fixed schedule.
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