The lineage of American schoolbooks, like that of our educational
system, goes back to Europe and, particularly, to England. The
first schoolbooks used in the United States were printed in England
and for two hundred years a great influx of books came from sources
outside this country. However, with the break from England and the
emergence of the United States as a nation, text book publishing
came into being in America. This book presents a general portrayal
of American textbooks, and along with this, as a requisite
accompaniment, a picture of the pioneer-day school system insofar
as it had to do with production and early usage of schoolbooks. The
author shows how the first textbooks came to be, tells of textbook
writers, and traces through the bulk of the material presented the
changes that most of the textbook authors brought about. The types
of books discussed include the New England primers as well as other
types of primers; readers, specially the McGuffey readers; rhetoric
and foreign language books; arithmetics; spelling books; literature
texts; elocution texts; handwriting and copy books; histories; and
many other books that made our school systems what they are today.
Besides being a study of the textbook field in America, History of
American Schoolbooks is also a history of the United States as
reflected in the type of teaching and instructional aids used to
educate Americans. A study of this subject is by no means just an
interesting side trip into America's past. Many of the books are
still influential, and many of the old methods are staging a come
back in the educational field, History of American Schoolbooks
should be of interest to educators and historians, as well as
teachers, librarians, book collectors, publishers, and general
readers who are interested in the evolution and growth of a segment
of education and educational publishing that is one of the most
important and vital in our country.
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