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 […]
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 […]
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 […]