Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 7
3. Contents 11
4. 1. The Early American Schools 15
5. 2. The New England Primer 21
6. 3. Nineteenth-Century Primers 35
7. 4. Special Primers 43
8. 5. Beginning of Readers 57
9. 6. Following the Initial Readers 67
10. 7. The McGuffey and Contemporary Readers 79
11. 8. Grammars 93
12. 9. Rhetorics and Foreign Language Books 110
13. 10. Arithmetics 122
14. 11. Spelling Books 148
15. 12. Literature Texts 160
16. 13. Elocution Manuals 168
17. 14. Handwriting and Copybooks 177
18. 15. School Histories 196
19. 16. General Science Texts 212
20. 17. Physiologies and Mental Science Texts 233
21. 18. Geographies 245
22. 19. Progress of Schoolbook Publishing 271
23. Bibliography 279
24. Index 301