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 […]
Analysis
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]