The 2021-22 academic year is drawing to a close, leaving in its wake a legacy of ill will and anger brought on by battles between public school boards and the teachers’ unions on one side and parents ...

William Holmes McGuffey is no longer remembered for his lectures, his sermons, or his classroom instruction, but for his Readers. The first and second and the McGuffey Primer were published in 1836.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The McGuffey Readers were a series of ...

I don’t propose to be a Meddlesome Mattie, but . . . When in 1910 Theodore Roosevelt thus roared at his rebellious protégé, William Howard Taft, most U. S. citizens knew instantly what he meant.

When an Ohio publisher released William Holmes McGuffey’s school primers in 1836 and 1837, McGuffey was an ancient languages professor at a rural college. He quickly became an influential voice in the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a “McGuffey Reader” metal ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Richard S. Scarsella, the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society’s board chairman, shows a DVD about McGuffey to those who attended a program he conducted ...