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Learning to read while reading to learn: Marcius Willson’s basal readers, science education, and object teaching, 1860–1890

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The essay discusses innovations in reading education by the schoolbook author Marcius Willson (1813-1905) through an examination of two popular series of basal readers he produced during and after the

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Slavery, market censorship and US antebellum schoolbook publishing

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"This paper explores the representation and non-representation of slavery in US school textbooks from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the US Civil War. It reviews the major readers, almost

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The McGuffey Eclectic Readers: 1836-1986

A history of one of the most influential reading textbooks in the American education landscape, preceded perhaps only by the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. Read more

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