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snowynightWe can learn a lot about the society from what they expect children to read and learn.
General Links
“Reading” Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read
Online Collection
Children's Literature/School Library Media: A guide to information resources
Library of Congress Digitized Children's Book Collection: Childrens' books published before 1924 in UK & US
19th Century Schoolbooks: A full-text collection of over one hundred textbooks published in the 1800s; includes two surveys of historic schoolbooks by Dr. John A. Nietz, the founder of the Nietz Old Textbook Collection. It provides a window of the prevalent social value of that time. For example, the Puritan value is explicit endorsed in The New England primer, a standard reader used for over two centuries
Grammar-land: Learning to Write in America (1700-1930)
The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk: Race and Ethnic Images in American Children's Literature, 1880-1939
Period Reading Materials
1890 Baby's annual: Published in 1889. Contains stories and puzzles
Coming of Age in the 1890s: An Analysis of the Boy’s Own Annual The Religious Tract Society runs the Boy’s Own Annual to "provide young male readers with a positive moral influence". It reflects the way Victorian Britain viewed boyhood.
Edith and Milly's housekeeping: Milly shows Edith her dollhouse. Colourful illustrations that reflected social perception of a well off household and woman's role in the household
19th-Century Girls' Series in US
Textbooks in that period:
McGuffey Readers: a popular graded readers for grade levels 1–6 widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. It gives us insight into the moral value of that time. eg: Smile is better than actual money or gifts to people in need. (SMILES, from McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader)
Ray's Arithmetics series: a popular 3-volume maths textbook series for elementary school children and beyond in 19th century and earth 20th century. It's interesting to see how different it's from modern textbooks. As it's basically a book of word questions, you can see what's considered important and relevant in that period. For example:
Nature Study Movement::
Emphasizing interaction with the natural world, this education movement originated in the USA and spread throughout the English-speaking world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the first major American educational reform movement through combining educational reform theory with the study of the environment: "Study nature, not books."
What Early 20th Century Nature Study Can Teach Us
Books about Nature study in Gutenberg Project
Handbook Of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock on Internet Archive: First published in 1911, this over 900 page handbook covers teaching nature study and extensive information about the nature.
General Links
“Reading” Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read
Online Collection
Children's Literature/School Library Media: A guide to information resources
Library of Congress Digitized Children's Book Collection: Childrens' books published before 1924 in UK & US
19th Century Schoolbooks: A full-text collection of over one hundred textbooks published in the 1800s; includes two surveys of historic schoolbooks by Dr. John A. Nietz, the founder of the Nietz Old Textbook Collection. It provides a window of the prevalent social value of that time. For example, the Puritan value is explicit endorsed in The New England primer, a standard reader used for over two centuries
Grammar-land: Learning to Write in America (1700-1930)
The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk: Race and Ethnic Images in American Children's Literature, 1880-1939
Period Reading Materials
1890 Baby's annual: Published in 1889. Contains stories and puzzles
Coming of Age in the 1890s: An Analysis of the Boy’s Own Annual The Religious Tract Society runs the Boy’s Own Annual to "provide young male readers with a positive moral influence". It reflects the way Victorian Britain viewed boyhood.
Edith and Milly's housekeeping: Milly shows Edith her dollhouse. Colourful illustrations that reflected social perception of a well off household and woman's role in the household
19th-Century Girls' Series in US
Textbooks in that period:
McGuffey Readers: a popular graded readers for grade levels 1–6 widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. It gives us insight into the moral value of that time. eg: Smile is better than actual money or gifts to people in need. (SMILES, from McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader)
Ray's Arithmetics series: a popular 3-volume maths textbook series for elementary school children and beyond in 19th century and earth 20th century. It's interesting to see how different it's from modern textbooks. As it's basically a book of word questions, you can see what's considered important and relevant in that period. For example:
A man and his wife can drink a keg of beer in twelve days; when the man is away it lasts the woman thirty days; in what time can the man drink it alone?
Nature Study Movement::
Emphasizing interaction with the natural world, this education movement originated in the USA and spread throughout the English-speaking world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the first major American educational reform movement through combining educational reform theory with the study of the environment: "Study nature, not books."
What Early 20th Century Nature Study Can Teach Us
Books about Nature study in Gutenberg Project
Handbook Of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock on Internet Archive: First published in 1911, this over 900 page handbook covers teaching nature study and extensive information about the nature.
