Discussion:
Read Ch. ("Husbands and Wives, Parents and Children in Puritan Society") in your textbook, The Way We Lived.
Compare and contrast the responsibilities of the family and the state in Puritan society with that of present-day America. Are there any elements of the "Good Manners for Colonial Children, 1772" or the "Statutes, Laws, and Privileges of Harvard College, 1700" that you would like to see supported or enforced in present day America?
Textbook:
Kennedy et al, The Brief American Pageant, Vol. I: to 1877
(Wadsworth/Cengage, 2012) 8th ed. ISBN:978-0-495-91535-5.
Binder and Reimers, editors, The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in
American Social History, Vol. I: 1492-1877 (Wadsworth/Cengage, 2008), 7th ed.