Foreword | |
Introduction: Educating America | |
The McGuffey Readers | |
America's Schoolmaster | |
Growing Up with the Territory | |
The McGuffey's Lessons | |
The McGuffey's Audience | |
Contexts | |
The Heartland | |
Pedagogy | |
The McGuffeys Today | |
Notes | |
Selections From The Mcguffey Readers | |
Childhood Early Lessons Patty and the Squirrel Mamma's Present Young Soldiers | |
Family Evening at Home | |
A Kind Brother | |
The Seven Sticks | |
The Last Child | |
The Machinist's Return | |
A Home Scene | |
Virtues A Place for Everything | |
Cheerfulness Lend a Hand | |
When to Say No | |
The Contented Boy | |
Try, Try Again | |
Vices | |
Pretty Is that Pretty Does | |
The Greedy Girl | |
Beware of the First Drink | |
The Alarm-Watch | |
The Insolent Boy | |
The Festal Board | |
Taking Comfort | |
Character | |
The Broken Window | |
The Broken Window (Concluded) | |
The New-Year | |
True Courage | |
No Crown for Me | |
The Good Son | |
Education | |
The Truant | |
I Will Think of It | |
Consequences of Idleness | |
Advantages of Industry | |
Emulation | |
Necessity of Education | |
Men and Women | |
Courage and Cowardice | |
True Manliness | |
True Manliness (Concluded) | |
Rock Me to Sleep | |
My Mother's Bible | |
House-Cleaning | |
Religion | |
God Is Great and Good | |
Things to Remember | |
The Lord's Prayer | |
Who Made the Stars? | |
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