Selected Internet and Print Resources for Historical Curriculum Materials

Finding Aids | Collections | Other Sources

Finding Aids

• Caspard, P. (1995). International guide for research in the history of education (2nd ed.) Paris : Institut National de Recherche Pedagogique; Bern: P. Lang. Location: Main Stacks, 370.9 G941. (Database version of this work now available: http://bdd.inrp.fr:8080/mgi/gb_MultiWelcome.html)
• History of education museums and collections international directory (1993/1994). Dekalb, Illinois: Blackwell History of Education Research Collection, Northern Illinois University. Location: Education Reference, 370.74 H629. (Additional information about the publisher can be found at the Blackwell History of Education Museum.)
• Directory of historical curriculum collections (2005). Compiled by the Ad Hoc Historical Textbook and Curriculum Collections Directory Committee, Education and Behavioral Sciences Section, Association of College and Research Libraries ; editor, Judy Walker. Location: Education Reference, Q. 011.70973 D628.

Collections

• Center for Research Libraries: Textbooks Collection

  The CRL Web site on education resources provides a summary description of its 23,000 courses of study from American schools and agencies, and 70,000 American schoolbooks. Both collections have mostly 20th century materials, although older materials are included in both. None of the materials are cataloged.

• Harvard University: Historical Textbooks

  This web site describes the Historical Textbooks Collection at Harvard University, which contains historical schoolbooks, school reports, and other special collections with an emphasis on materials published between 1800 and 1950.

• HEARTH: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, and History

  Located at Cornell University, this "collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines offers carefully selected full-text works published between 1850 and 1950 on the domestic sciences, including Institutional Management and Retail and Consumer Studies, as well as typical child care and housekeeping topics. Searchable and browsable through subject bibliographies with accompanying essays."

• William Holmes McGuffey at Miami University

  Provides a biography, history, bibliography and links to the special collections of papers and books by and about William Holmes McGuffey in the Miami University of Ohio libraries. Also includes links to the McGuffey museum and to digitized text from his Eclectic First Reader.

• 19th Century Schoolbooks, University of Pittsburgh

  This site contains information on the University of Pittsburgh's Nietz schoolbook collection as well as access to full-text digitized items.

• Museum of Education, University of South Carolina - Columbia

  This site includes information about educational life in South Carolina as well as national trends in curriculum (primarily in a Progressive tradition).

Other Sources

• Gulliford, A. (1996) America's country schools. (3rd ed.) Niwot, Colo.: University Press of Colorado.
• Nietz, J. (1961). Old textbooks: spelling, grammar, reading, arithmetic, geography, American history, civil government, physiology, penmanship, art, music, as taught in the common schools from colonial days to 1900. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Nietz, J. (1966). The evolution of American secondary school textbooks; rhetoric & literature, algebra, geometry, natural history (zoology), botany, natural philosophy (physics), chemistry, Latin and Greek, French, German & world history as taught in American Latin grammar school academies and early high schools before 1900. Rutland, Vt.: C. E. Tuttle Co.
• The Textbook Colloquium

  This organization focuses on the interdisciplinary study of text book. The site includes information about the organization, related papers of interest to education historians, and links to Paradigm, the organization's publication.