Abstract:
"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
Abstract:
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
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