Even if you aren't going back to school this month, there are plenty of interesting "school-related" images, manuscripts, films, sound recordings and other materials that will pique your interest in education in America

The American Memory Collection Search Page (type "school" in the search box) can help you find items such as sheet music from Dodworth's Brass Band School from the Civil War era, or an early Thomas Edison film of an American Indian day school or an 1863 letter to Abraham Lincoln inviting him to attend a public school exhibition.

A "school" image of a noteworthy but not proud moment in American history is this photograph above of a Sunday school class at the Manzanar Relocation Center in California, which housed Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. The image is by Ansel Adams, who is most famous for his extraordinary photographs of America's natural beauty. This series of images of the relocation camps is available in "Suffering under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar."