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6 produkter
History Repeating Itself
The Republication of Children's Historical Literature and the Christian Right
Häftad, 2014
441 kr
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Recently publishers on the Christian Right have been reprinting nineteenth-century children’s history books and marketing them to parents as “anchor texts” for homeschool instruction. Why, Gregory M. Pfitzer asks, would books written more than 150 years ago be presumed suitable for educating …
Fame Is not Just for the Fellas
Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series
Häftad, 2022
457 kr
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Between 1932 and 1958, thousands of children read volumes in the book series Childhood of Famous Americans. With colorful cover art and compelling—and often highly fictionalized—narrative storylines, these biographies celebrated the national virtues and achievements of famous women like Betsy Ross, …
Fame Is not Just for the Fellas
Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series
Inbunden, 2022
1163 kr
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Between 1932 and 1958, thousands of children read volumes in the book series Childhood of Famous Americans. With colorful cover art and compelling—and often highly fictionalized—narrative storylines, these biographies celebrated the national virtues and achievements of famous women like Betsy Ross, …
From Boys to Men
The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series
Häftad, 2024
457 kr
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While adult concern about gender in children’s books has made recent headlines, this discussion is far from new. As Gregory M. Pfitzer reveals, the writers and editors at Bobbs-Merrill, the publisher of the Childhood of Famous Americans book series published between 1932 and 1958, thought carefully …
Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920
Häftad, 2008
395 kr
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Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, most Americans ""heard"" rather than ""read"" national history. They absorbed lessons from the past more readily by attending Patriots' Day orations and anniversary commemorations than by reading expensive, multivolume works of patrician historians. By the …
From Boys to Men
The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series
Inbunden, 2024
1275 kr
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While adult concern about gender in children’s books has made recent headlines, this discussion is far from new. As Gregory M. Pfitzer reveals, the writers and editors at Bobbs-Merrill, the publisher of the Childhood of Famous Americans book series published between 1932 and 1958, thought carefully …
