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

Pfitzer, Gregory M.

History repeating itself : the republication of children's historical literature and the Christian right / Gregory M. Pfitzer. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9781613763445


Historiography--Religious aspects.
History publishing--History.--United States


Electronic Books.

E175 / .H578 2014