"Good Books Make Better Children":
Nineteenth-Century Textbooks in Special Collections
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Readers throughout the nineteenth century served the dual purpose of teaching children to read and inspiring them to lead good and noble lives. Most of the selections in readers taught a sort of sectarian catchetism, emphasizing lessons of character, thrift, and duty in language appropriate to the age and reading level. |
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The McGuffey Readers were the most successful and popular of the nineteenth century. Between 1836 and 1920, 122 million copies were issued. |
 Primers |
 Readers |
 Arithmetic |
 Geographies |
 Sciences |
 Histories |