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Thereading and resource lists are found at Readings & Resources/eReserves - LibGuides at American Public University System. Make a note of the Effective date of the list so you view the one applicable to your course. Listings with a future effective date may not be complete until 30 days prior to the course start date. Current and future lists are also attached below.

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The Save America's Treasures grant program is administered by the National Park Service, in cooperation with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

American history textbooks are one of the great battlefields of the culture wars in the United States. Disagreement about how the nation's history should be depicted goes back almost as far as American history textbooks have been written.

The history of these controversies is described in Schoolbook Nation: Conflicts Over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present by Joseph Moreau. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.) MSU has print and ebook editions.

This list provides links to American history textbook authors in MSU Special Collections, which are mentioned at least five times in Schoolbook Nation (above). This is meant to help identify topics which are likely to have been discussed in additional secondary sources, AND for which Special Collections has a copy of the actual textbook being discussed.

This is NOT meant to be a comprehensive list of topics. Special Collections has many other American history textbooks which have been discussed by educators and historians but weren't covered at length in Schoolbook Nation. And, online copies of textbooks not in Special Collections may be found in ERIC, an education database, or in HathiTrust. The MSU Libraries catalog will take you into the contents of both; just search by title or author..

A hornbook is a wooden paddle with the alphabet and a short text.. In the right-hand column on this page, the first image from the top is a hornbook. In this hornbook, as in many, the readiang passage below the alphabet is the "Our Father," a Christian prayer.

A battledore is an inexpensive pamphlet with the alphabet and other simple text, such as lists of one-syllable words or an easy reading passage. In the right-hand column on this page, the second image from the top is a battledore.

The four titles listed above are MSU's only specimens of hornbooks and battledores, but you can do a subject search for hornbooks to locate books about both hornbooks and battledores. (The subject headings use the single term "hornbooks" to cover both types of artifact.)

The earliest textbook we have for Black children is A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890 by Edward A. Johnson. It was first published in 1891; we have an 1893 printing here at MSU.

We have many good examples of picture books and chapter books intended for and featuring Chicanx/Latinx children, but have not identified any in the collection that were specifically intended for classroom use.The same is true for books intended for and featuring Asian American children.

In the mid-1800s, publishers started producing reader series with content organized by reading level, each new book containing more advanced selections.This section identifies some of the most prolific series readers.

This collection of nearly 45,000 elementary and secondary textbooks covers subject areas from agriculture to zoology. The collection contains materials published in the United States in English from 1776 through 1985. A small number of European imprints in foreign languages are also included.

This collection also contains a number of textbooks focused on reading and teaching literacy, also known as readers or basal readers. Harvard Library's Open Collection Program entitled Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership and Reading History may also be of interest to users.

Outside institutions may borrow microfilm reels through Interlibrary Loan. Copies of reels may be purchased through Harvard Library Imaging Services. The HOLLIS record for each filmed titles contains a filming note and gives the reel and master negative numbers.

According to Nietz, many of the earliest spellers used in the colonies and early nation were either directly from England or reprints of English books. The earliest American speller was A Grammatical Institute of the English Language written by the prolific textbook writer Noah Webster and published in Hartford in 1783. All of these early American spellers combined aspects of readers and grammars as well, until just before 1820 when exclusively spellers began to include "the pronunciation of the words...by diacritical marks and other symbols." After the 1870's, most spellers consistently employed diacritical marks and were much more explicit about how the words for the spellers were chosen, mainly those most useful or not too commonly misspelled.

The earliest readers printed in the United States were also some of the earliest books ever printed, primers. The first, The New England Primer, was written by Benjamin Harris and printed in Boston shortly after 1686. During the colonial period, much of the content of the readers was religious in nature, and often sectarian, especially in New England where the Puritans controlled much of the government. Once the nation was formed and the separation of church and state began to be accepted, different types of content became prevalent, such as folklore and fairy tales, animal stories, and stories about boys and girls, and the religious content that was maintained was nonsectarian. Nearly all readers until the very late 1800s "emphasized the mastery of effective oral reading or elocution," especially those at more advanced levels.

Like spellers, many of the first grammars used in the colonies and early nation were brought over from England and reprinted due to the lack of copyright protection at the time. In the colonies, grammar used to refer to the study of Latin and Greek, and English grammar was not widely taught until the establishment of the United States. Nietz states that grammars "changed less than the textbooks in most other subject fields," and many grammars contained the same form parts as established in the most widely used grammar textbook in the early period, Lindley Murray's English Grammar. These parts were orthography (the correct formation of letters), etymology, syntax, and prosody.

The work provides a comprehensive overview of both the formal and informal political institutions that one would expect to find in an introductory-level American Government text. The index is thorough and easily navigable with direct links to the...read more

The work provides a comprehensive overview of both the formal and informal political institutions that one would expect to find in an introductory-level American Government text. The index is thorough and easily navigable with direct links to the relevant section of the text in which the key term is discussed. The attention to both content and process in the chapters on policy is useful.

The content is presented clearly and appropriately. The content is presented in a way that scaffolds the reader's knowledge from basic understanding of the historical context and key concepts toward analysis, synthesis, and finally enables critical assessment of ideas. This progression is evident, for example, in the learning objectives that begin each section of the text.

The relevance of content is a real strength of this text. The text repeatedly incorporates up-to-date examples to illustrate its reasoning and explain how foundational themes relate to contemporary political developments. For instance, the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 election, and key aspects of the first-term of the Biden administration are usefully addressed in the text.

The framework of the text is internally consistent. The book's seventeen chapters are well-divided into five parts. The chapter-to-chapter progression is logical. Within each chapter, sections are consistently arranged to first build comprehension and then work toward deeper analysis of topic, which is an effective pedagogical framework.

Chapter sections are easily divisible and do not overwhelm the reader with too much information in any single subheading. The material could easily be reorganized or covered in a different sequence at the discretion of the instructor without much disruption. The material is not overly self-referential.

The organization of topics conforms with what one finds in many other introductory level texts on American Government. Ideas are presented in a clear, logical fashion, and transitions between sections flow smoothly.

Images and charts were appropriate, visually appealing, and supported the text content in a meaningful way. The text was easily navigable and the Index, search function, and drop-down menus in the Table of Contents functioned seamlessly.

The textbook is highly relevant with topics that will continue to be important to include in a foundational study of U.S .government. Furthermore, the textbook has the capacity to undergo straightforward updates, (such as to linked contents, etc.) when necessary.

The textbook content and organization is consistent throughout. Each chapter offers an introduction, 3 to 5 written sections covering the topic, key terms, summary, review questions, critical thinking questions, and suggestions for further study.

The textbook content is clearly organized into sensible modules. For example, the civil rights chapter is organized into five components, including: 1) what are civil rights, 2) African-American civil rights, 3) women's civil rights, 4) civil rights for indigenous groups, and 5) equal protection for other groups. This organization allows instructors and students to easily reference particular sub-units of content.

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