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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798314703321

Autore

Pfitzer Gregory M.

Titolo

History repeating itself : the republication of children's historical literature and the Christian right / / Gregory M. Pfitzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61376-344-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Disciplina

973

Soggetti

History publishing - United States - History

Historiography - Religious aspects

United States History Textbooks

United States Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: "the past we choose to remember" -- Narrative history: Samuel Goodrich and truth in children's history -- Pedagogical history: the Abbott brothers and Progressive approaches to the past -- Gendered history: Josephine Pollard and monosyllabic histories -- Providential history: Charles Carleton Coffin and the home study movement -- Biographical history: Elbridge S. Brooks and the childhood lives of great men -- Doctrinal history: Charles Morris and the search for "lost history" -- Conclusion: the recycled past.