Article: The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The ...
Journal of Social History;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter. By Patricia ... Although Grain begins with the New England Primer, first published about 1690 ... teaching reading to generations of New England children in the eighteenth and ...

Article: The Story of A: the Alphabetization of America from the ...
Early American Literature;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... example, the images introducing the alphabet in The New England Primer represented not only the principles of theological ... representation of the alphabet. The first locates The New England Primer (1690) inside the iconographic and agonistic tradition ...

Encyclopedia entry: New England Primer, The
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      314 words ...New England Primer, The, Calvinist school book, compiled and published by Benjamin Harris , probably in 1683 and certainly before 1690. In its ...

Article: Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American ...
Church History;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 6). Chapters focus in turn on Puritan New England, the New England Primer, the nineteenth-century Bible "wars ... of their devotion to the Christian Word; the New England Primer helped to fuse the secularization of Protestantism ...

Article: Textbooks, Early
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ... ... the text. As schools proliferated in New England, most used a version of The New England Primer, copied from English texts, and most ... also Hornbook ; McGuffey's Readers ; New England Primer ; Webster's Blue-Backed Speller .

Article: New England higher education in a new century
Connection, New England's Journal of Higher Education;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...New England's approximately 280 higher education ... economic and social success. Of course, New England colleges and universities don't simply ... tanks and faculty experts, they provide New England opinion leaders and the public with ...

Article: NEW ENGLAND BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION . . . Working ...
Connection, New England's Journal of Higher Education;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Half a century ago, six visionary New England governors realized that New England's future hopes rested with higher education ... the G.I. Bill, these governors formed the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) and committed ...