Citizens Library in Washington houses several McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers. The textbooks were created by Claysville area native William Holmes McGuffey and starting in 1836, were widely used in ...

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 ...

As a National Historic Landmark, we aim to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit materials relating to the life of William Holmes McGuffey, the McGuffey Eclectic Reader series, the history of ...

William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800-May 4, 1873) was a college professor and president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of elementary ...

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 ...

Youngstown and Ohio face a persistent literacy challenge, with only 35% of fourth graders reading at grade level, and worse results among eighth graders. While new mandates focus on the “Science of ...

“The first difficulty was Philip,” recalls Pamela Hansford Johnson, wife of British Novelist C. P. Snow, and herself a noted novelist (The Unspeakable Skipton). Their son Philip was eight last fall ...

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 ...

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 ...