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A Window on the World: Views of 19th Century Life in American Schoolbooks, 1823-1852

Olney's Modern Geography, 1841. Image courtesy of Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library.

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Nineteenth-century schoolbooks bragged of the ever-increasing number of US colleges and their libraries, a mark of advancing civilization on the continent. Here’s a list from 1841.