McGuffey’s First Weeks at Miami University
In the late fall of 1826, William Holmes McGuffey took up his post as professor of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and Ex-officio Librarian. What was […]
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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 […]
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 […]