American Antiquarian
Society
Address: Worcester, MA.
Has nearly 1500 19th-century readers, speakers, and spellers, plus a
wide range of other materials related to literacy in early American
history up to 1876.
Publications: Proceedings, semiannually. Its Early American
Imprints series, in microform and microfilm, contains the full text of
over 70,000 books, pamphlets, etc. published in this country from 1639
to 1820; its Early American Newspapers series reproduces all American
newspapers issued before 1821.
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American Association for State and
Local History
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American Historical Association
The largest historical organization in the U.S.
Publications: American Historical Review, 5 times annually;
Perspectives, newsletter, 9 times annually.
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American
Studies Association
Publications: American Quarterly, ASA Newsletter.
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Barnard Textbook Collection
Address: Trinity College, Watkinson Library, Hartford, CT.
Has 7,000 textbooks from 17th through 19th century.
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Butler
Library, Rare Book and Manuscript Room
Address: Columbia University, New York, NY.
Has many 19th-century textbooks in its Plimpton Collection, plus some
300 American spelling books.
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Canadian
Children's Literature Service
Address: Ottawa, Canada.
Includes 800 files on Canadian authors and illustrators.
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Center for Research Libraries
Address: Chicago, IL.
Has a very large collection of 85,000 old textbooks and 45,000
children's books (which are mostly 1951 and later).
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Center for the
Book of the Library of Congress: Related Organizations and Programs
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Center for the
Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
Address: California State University, San Marcos, CA.
Has 3,000 20th-century books in Spanish for children and adolescents.
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Children's Book Collection
Address: Department of Special Collections at the University
Research Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Is strong in English and American publications before 1840; has foreign
language materials, early games and pop-up books, primary and secondary
American textbooks, a collection of modern juvenile books and Russian
children's books published between the two world wars.
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Children's Literature
Research Collections
Address: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
The Kerlan Collection contains more than 65,000 children's books,
primarily by 20th-century American writers, as well as manuscripts and
illustrations for more than 8,700 titles.
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Cotsen Children's
Library
Address: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
Contains 20,000 items, most of them illustrated books, and manuscripts,
puzzles, hornbooks and toys, from the 15th to the 20th centuries, in
French, German, Farsi, Urdu etc.
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Cultures of the Book: Bibliography
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de Grummond Children's
Literature Research Collection
Address: McCain Library and Archives, The University of Southern
Mississippi. H
as drafts from over 75 authors and illustrators, 34,000 books, 600 early
19th-century books, and 250 children's magazines.
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Dictionary Society of
North America Homepage
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Directory of
Historical Resources
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Elizabeth
Nesbitt Children's Literature Collection
Address: University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Science,
Pittsburgh, PA.
Has 12,000 volumes of 18th and 19th-century British and American
children's literature plus 300 chapbooks.
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ERIC
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George Arents Research Library for Special Collections
Address: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Has most of the textbooks published by the American Book Company
1890-1965, and some early 19th-century texts.
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Guggenheim
Memorial Library
Address: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ.
Has 100 readers plus 2,500 pre-1900 textbooks.
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Historical Text Archive: African American History
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History of American
Education Web Project
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History of
Education Society
Affiliated with the International Standing Conference for the History of
Education.
Publications: History of Education Quarterly, quarterly.
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History of Higher
Education Annual
The annual is the sole scholarly refereed journal in the USA devoted
exclusively to the history of higher education.
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History of Reading Instruction
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History of Reading,
Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association
The SIG functions within the larger structure of the International
Reading Association (IRA)
Publications: History of Reading News,newsletter, twice yearly.
Special Program: Listserv: HRSIG@bookmark.reading.org |
Images of
Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the Fifth, Fourth and Third
Centuries BCE
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Institute of Historical Research
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International Reading Association
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John A. Neitz Old Textbook Collection
Address: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Has over 15,000 old primary and secondary school texts, most published
before 1900.
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Lilly Library
Chapbook Collection
Address: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
Contains a sizable collection of chapbooks.
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Linda Hall Library
Address: Kansas City, MO.
Extensive collection of historical documents related to science and
technology.
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Making of America Project
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McGuffey Museum
Address: Oxford, OH. Tel: (513) 529-4666.
The largest collection of McGuffey readers in existence is housed in the
Special Collections Library of the Museum.
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Media History Project
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Milbank Memorial
Library
Address: Special Collections, Teachers College, Columbia
University, New York, NY.
Has 3,000+ pre-1900 textbooks and 14,000 post-1900 texts.
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Monroe
Gutman Library
Address: Harvard University, Graduate School of Education,
Cambridge MA.
Has 35,000 volumes of American textbooks between 1800-1950.
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Nila Banton Smith Historical Collection in Reading
Address: Special Collections Department, Hofstra University
Library, Hempstead, NY.
Has over 3,500 readers and reading instructional manuals dating from
1640, along with 2,000 books in its companion children's literature
collection.
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Oral History Association,
Encourages standards of excellence in the collection, preservation,
dissemination and uses of oral testimony.
Publications: OHA Newsletter, three times a year;Oral History
Review, semiannually: theoretical and methodological
discussions;Membership Directory and Annual Report.
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Organization of American Historians,
OAH's object is to promote historical study and research in the field of
American history.
Publications: Journal of American History, quarterly; OAH
Newsletter, quarterly; OAH Magazine of History, quarterly, for history
educators.
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Osborne
Collection of Early Children's Books
Address: Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Canada.
Includes books, artwork, original manuscripts and letters representing
English children's literature from the 14th century to the present day,
plus l9th- and 20th-century children's books in English relating to
Canada.
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Penny Magazine
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Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books from University of
California Collections, 1550-1990
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Russell B. Nye Culture Collection
Address: Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, MI.
Includes over 2,000 item collection of 19th- and early 20th-century
textbooks, as well as pop culture reading materials from comic books to
trade books.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Address: Institutional History Division, Washington, DC.
Assorted texts and oral histories from various time periods and regions
of the U.S.
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Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP),
SHARP News, quarterly newsletter with book reviews; Book History;
Publications: listserv: SHARP-L
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Special
Collections Department, Library, University of South Florida
Address: Tampa, FL.
Has 2,000 pre-1865 textbooks.
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Textbook Colloquium
Brings together scholars who focus on the central role played by
textbooks in all forms of teaching and learning.
Publications: PARADIGM, thrice yearly, journal/newsletter
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The Association for History
and Computing
Publications: History and Computing, 3 times per year.
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The Blackwell
History of Education Research Collection
Address: Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL.
Over 10,000 items, ranging from educational newspapers, journals and
magazines to slates, hornbooks, battledores, teaching devices,
textbooks, and writing instruments.
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The
Children's Literature Web Guide: Research Guides and Indexes
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The Cinderella Project
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The History of Printing
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The Library of Congress
Address: Washington, DC.
Holds some 200,000 children's books, including picture books, folktales,
poetry, nonfiction, books in braille, movable books and books in
electronic formats.
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The
Little Red Riding Hood Project
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The New York Historical Society
Address: New York, NY.
Has a large collection of 19th-century textbooks, as well as manuscript
writing and ciphering notebooks.
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The New York Public Library
Address: New York, NY.
Has a huge collection of texts under the headings: Reading Books;
Primers, American; English Language--Spelling Books, American;
Dialogues, American; Recitations, American; Elocution.
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The Reading
Experience Database: 1450-1914
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The
Watkinson Library
Address: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Houses the 6,800 volume Barnard Textbook Collection, consisting mostly
of books used from colonial times to the end of the 19th century.
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The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: History
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The World-Wide Web
Virtual Library: Latin American Studies
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The Written and
Spoken Word
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U.S. Census Bureau
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US
Department of Education Research Library, Department of Education
Address: Washington, DC.
Sizable collection of early American textbooks, journals and holdings in
the history of education, and 12,000 18th- and 19th-century textbooks
published in U.S.
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Walter
Havighurst Special Collections Library
Address: King Collection of Early Children's Literature, Miami
University, Oxford, OH.
Has a large collection of early American children's literature, 6,000
textbooks and some 200 McGuffey volumes.
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Young
American Readers
Young American Readers is AN EXHIBITION drawn from the first of several
donations to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library from Charles and E.
Jennifer Monaghan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., that over the course of the next
few years will total about 1,400 volumes. The books have been designated
the Charles and E. Jennifer Monaghan Collection. With its focus on the
teaching of reading and writing in Colonial America and the United
States, the Monaghan Collection complements and extends the Spencer
Library's already substantial holdings in this field. This library holds
many similar volumes—books from this state and region of the United
States, in the Kansas Collection—and books from across the seas,
especially from Britain, in the Department of Special Collections. Now,
much strengthened by the Monaghans' gift, these collections give the
Spencer Library the opportunity to support in great depth those faculty
and students who seek to learn about a most important part of the
history of education . . . and to offer some delight to anyone who may
wonder how our forebears learned to read!
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