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Charles Eugene Ozanne

1865–1961

Best remembered for co-authoring the early 20th-century textbook Social Civics, this American civics teacher wrote to help students understand government, society, and their role in public life.

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Social Civics

Social Civics

by William Bennett Munro, Charles Eugene Ozanne

About the author

Charles Eugene Ozanne was an American educator born in 1865 and died in 1961. Reliable online records for his life are quite limited, but Project Gutenberg’s text of Social Civics identifies him as a teacher of civics at Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio.

He is best known today as the co-author, with Harvard professor William Bennett Munro, of Social Civics (1922). The book was designed as a broad introduction to civic life, connecting government with economics, society, and citizenship in a way meant for students.

Although not a widely documented public figure now, his surviving work suggests a teacher deeply interested in helping ordinary readers make sense of modern democratic life. That practical, classroom-minded approach is the clearest part of his legacy still visible online.