E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell

Ernest C. Hartwell was an American educator and school administrator whose best-known book, The Teaching of History, was published in 1913. The book identifies him as an M.A. and superintendent of schools in Petoskey, Michigan, and it was issued as part of Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Educational Monographs series.

His writing is focused less on abstract theory than on what actually happens in the classroom: how to begin a course, assign lessons, conduct recitations, review material, and test progress. That practical emphasis gives his work a straightforward, teacher-friendly tone that still helps explain how history was being taught in U.S. schools in the early 1900s.

Some later records connect Hartwell's name with memorial recognition in education, but easily confirmed biographical details about his personal life remain limited in the sources available here. What can be said with confidence is that he wrote for teachers, drew on real school experience, and aimed to make history instruction more effective and meaningful.