Founded less than three years after the City of Winona was incorporated, Winona State University has evolved from the first state normal school into a nationally recognized institution, regarded as ...

Between 1900 and 1940, America’s normal schools, noncollegiate teacher-training institutions with an emphasis on practical education, gave way to university-based teacher education. Today the nation ...

What is now Kutztown University can be traced back to the Maxatawny Seminary, which opened in September 1864 with a single three-story brick building. The Normal School Act had been passed in ...

IT would seem strange to hear any reasonably well-informed man of our time assert that teachers cannot be aided in their work by special training; and yet it has not been so long since the most ...

THE increase of normal schools in the United States, which within a recent period has been phenomenal, shows the liberality with which the American people further any project that gives hope of ...

Winona had the first institution for the training and licensing of teachers, opened in 1864. Legislation authorizing the creation of two additional “Normal Schools” in Minnesota, at St. Cloud and ...

As a not-for-profit institution, the McLean County Museum of History relies on donations to “grow” its curated collections of everything from family letters to common household items. The museum’s ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Sept. 20, 1897, saw the first day of classes for what has become one of the major institutions of learning in northwestern Oklahoma. The legislature of the Territory of Oklahoma passed a bill ...