Caslon: The Typeface That Defined Early America
How did a typeface created by an English printer come to represent America? And what does this typeface have to do with McGuffey’s Readers? Take […]
Caroline Virginia Rich McGuffey: Acclaimed Artist
Visitors to the McGuffey House & Museum are often transfixed by the portrait of the young Caroline Virginia Rich McGuffey. It is hard not to […]
McGuffey’s First Book Contract
In 1836, publishers and booksellers William T. Truman and Winthrop B. Smith approached William Holmes McGuffey to write the first for volumes of what would […]
From the Grave: A Look At Andrew Dousa Hepburn, in Life and Death
By Hope Nickel University president, Presbyterian minister, local grave resident. Andrew Dousa Hepburn is all things and more, though the average Miami-goer likely recognizes his […]
The New England Primer: How an Early Reader Shaped the World for McGuffey
Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti, Curator In the library of the McGuffey House & Museum sits a small, glass-topped display box containing an unassuming worn book. […]
Burning the Midnight Oil
Students have always needed task lighting for their studies. This brass oil lamp from circa 1884 may have been a solution for the late 19th […]
A Reminder of the Resplendent and Repressed Past of German in Cincinnati: An Analysis and Context of “Der Amerikanische Leser: Zweites Buch”
By Hope Nickel Walking into the McGuffey House and rounding a few corners into the library, you may notice a reader that doesn’t look like […]
Announcing our May Public Program
Henry Flagler: How a Man from Ohio Took the Railroad to the Southernmost Point Presented by Jennifer Lorenzetti, MS, Administrator & Curator, McGuffey House & […]