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