The present work is a continuation of A History of Education Before the Middle Ages and A History of Education during the Middle Ages and the Transition to Modern Times. The biographical material has here been reduced to a minimum; more attention is given to general educational movements than to individual reformers; and an attempt has been made to select and interpret the facts of the successive chapters in such a way as to form a connected narrative, and to furnish a suitable historical and social perspective. Frank Pierrepont Graves, Ph.D., was dean at three universities, and finished his career in 1940 after nearly 20 years as Commissioner of Education and President of the University of the State of New York. At the time of original publication in 1913 he was Professor of the History of Education in the University of Pennsylvania.