Resources for Teachers and Scholars

Papers of the American Sunday School Union at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia (available on microfilm).
The New York Public Library's Division of Archives and Manuscripts collection of Methodist Sunday school records from 19^th Century and minute-books of the Methodist Branch of the New-York Sunday-School Union Society.
The Presbyterian Historical Society also has a good collection of Sunday School Records.
American Baptist Historical Society at Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, New York - Baptist records.
Andover-Newton Theological Seminary in Newton Massachusetts - Baptist records.
The Rhode Island Historical Society in Providence: records of the Rhode Island Sunday School Union, records of the Providence Association of Sabbath School Teachers.
Lovely Land Methodist Museum in Baltimore - minutes of the McKendrean Female Sabbath School Society and of the Asbury Sunday School Society.

Printed Histories:

History of the Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York by Shepherd Knapp, New York, 1909.
History of the First Baptist Church of Boston by Nathan E. Wood, Philadelphia, 1889.
History of St. George's Church in the City of New York by Henry Anstice, New York, 1911.
Semi-Centennial of the Sunday School of the First Presbyterian Church of Utica, Utica, N.Y. 1866
Ruth Linton's Master's thesis: "To the Promotion and Improvement of Youth: The Brandywine Manufacturers' Sunday School, 1816 - 1840," University of Delaware, 1981.
Also by Ruth Linton: "The Brandywine Manufactures' Sunday School: An Adventure in Education in the Early Nineteenth Century" in Delaware History 20, 1983 pp. 168 - 184.
Report on the Biographical Research for the Brandywine Manufactures' Sunday School ed. by Sarah H. Heald. Unpublished, at the Hagley Museum.

Reports of Sunday school societies:

American Sunday School Union
Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School Union
New York Sunday School Union Society
New York Female Union Society for the Promotion of Sabbath Schools
Massachusetts Sabbath School Union
Illinois State Sunday School Convention

Periodicals:

American Sunday School Magazine
Sunday School Journal and Advocate of Christian Education
Sunday School Times
Sunday School World
National Sunday School Teacher
Youth's Friend
Youth's Penny Gazette
Well-Spring
Sunday School Advocate
Sunday School Visitor
Kind Words
Sunbeam

Teaching Guides:

C.R. Blackall, Our Sunday School Work
W.F. Crafts, The Ideal Sunday School. Boston, 1876
W.F. Lloyd, The Teacher's Manual. Philadelphia, 1825
New York Sunday School Union Society, Hints on the Establishment and Regulation of Sunday Schools. New York, 1817
Frederick A. Packard, The Teacher Taught. Philadelphia, 1839.
John Todd, The Sabbath School Teacher. Northampton, Mass, 1837.
H. Clay Trumbull, Teaching and Teachers. Philadelphia, 1884.

Diaries, Autobiographies:

The Diary of Michael FLoy, Jr. Bowery Village ed. by Richard Albert Edward Brooks. New Haven, 1941.
Caroline Cowles Richards, Village Life in America, 1852 - 1872.New York, 1912.
Miron Winslow, Memoir of Mrs. Harriet L. Winslow. New York, 1840.
Bradford K. Peirce, One Talent Improved or the Life and Labors of Miss Susan B. Bowler, Successful Sunday School Teacher. New York, 1845.
Lewis Ashhurst's Journal. 4 vols. 1834 - 1874. Richard Ashhurst Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. ed. by John Hall, New York, 1860.
The Autobiography of Bishop Vincent in Northwestern Christian Advocate 58, April 6 - November 2, 1910.

Secondary Works:

Anne M. Boylan, Sunday School: The Formation of An American Institution 1790 - 1880 Yale: New Haven, 1988.
Edwin W. Rice, Sunday School Movement, 1780 - 1917, and the American Sunday School Union, 1817 - 1917. Philadelphia, 1917.
Marianna C. Brow, Sunday School Movement in America. New York, 1901.
The Encyclopedia of Sunday Schools and Religious Education. ed. by John T. McFarland, Benjamin S. Winchester, R. Douglas Fraser, and J. Williams Butcher. 3 vols, New York, 1915.
Robert W. Lynn and Elliot Wright, The Big Little School: Sunday Child of American Protestantism. New York, 1971.
Ralph R. Smith's Ph.D. dissertation, In Every Destitute Place: The Mission Program of the American Sunday School Union, 1817 - 1834. University of Southern Califrnia, 1973.
John Wells Kuykendalls' Southern Enterprize: The Work of National Evangelical Societies in the Antebellum South. Westport, Conn, 1982.
E. Morris Fergusson's Historic Chapters in Christian Education in America. New York, 1935.
Frank Glenn Lankard's History of the American Sunday School Curriculum. New York, 1927.
Addie Grace Wardle, History of the Sunday School Movement in the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York, 1918.
Jessie Dell Crawford, Status of the Child in American Baptist Churches.Ph. D. Dissertation, Yale, 1940.
Clifton Hartwell Brewer, A History of Religious Education in the Episcopal Church to 1835. New Haven, 1924. Early Episcopal Sunday Schools (1814 - 1865). New York, 1939. Milwaukee, 1933. and Later Episcopal Sunday Schools.New York, 1939.
A History of Religious Education in Connecticut to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century by Goerge Stewart, Jr. New Haven, 1924.
Thomas Laqueur, Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780 - 1850. New Haven, 1976.
Robert T. Handy, Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities. New York, 1971.
Carroll Smith Rosenberg, Religion and the Rise of the American City: The New York City Mission Movement, 1812 - 1870. Ithaca, N.Y., 1971.
Lois W. Banner, Protestant Crusade: Religious Missions, Benevolence, and Reform in the United States, 1790 - 1840. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1970.
Martha Tomhave Blauvelt, Society, Religion and Revivalism: The Second Great Awakening in New Jersey, 1780 - 1830. Dissertation, Princeton University, 1975.
Stanley K. Schultz, Culture Factory: Boston Public Schools, 1789 - 1860. New York, 1973.
Carl F. Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780 - 1860. New York, 1983. and The Evolution of an Urban School System: New York City, 1750 - 1860. Cambridge, Mass., 1973.
Peter G. Slater, Children in the New England Mind in Death and in Life. Hamden, Conn., 1977.
Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820 - 1920. Cambridge, Mass, 1978.
Anthony F.C. Wallace, Rockdale: The Growth of an American Villange in the Early Industrial Revolution. New York, 1978.
Bruce Laurie, Working People of Philadelphia, 1800 - 1850. Philadelphia, 1980.
Daniel Walker Howe, Political Culture of the American Whigs. Chicago, 1979.
Daniel T. Rodgers, Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850 - 1920. Chicago, 1978.
Donald M. Scott, From Office to Profession: The New England Ministry, 1750 - 1850. Philadelphia, 1978.
Joan Jacobs Brumber, Mission for Life: The Story of the Family of Adoniram Judson. New York, 1980.
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War against Slavery. Cleveland, 1969.
Joseph Kett, Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America, 1790 to the Present. New York, 1977.
Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790 - 1865. New York, 1981.
Nancy F. Cott, Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1785 - 1835. New Haven, 1977.
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domestiticity. New Haven, 1973.

On Children's Literature

Lyman Abbott. "Jacob Abbott, Friend of Children", in Silhouettes of My Contemporaries. London: np, 1922.
Lysla I. Abbott. "Jacob Abbott: A Goodly Heritage". In Hewins Lectures, 1947-1962. Boston: Horn Book, 1963. pp. 129-149
Gillian Avery. Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922. Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Jan Bakker. "Summer Reading at Woodlands: A Juvenile Library of the Old South." Children's Literature 9 (1981): 221-231, plus 21 pages.
Before Oz: Juvenile Fantasy Stories from Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Mark I. West. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1989.
Robert Franklin Berman. "The Naive Child and the Competent Child: American Literature for Children and American Culture, 1830-1930." PhD diss. Harvard University, 1978.
Jani L. Berry. "Discipline and (Dis)order: Paternal Socialization in Jacob Abbott's Rollo Books." Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 18 (Fall 1993): 100-105
Review of Beadle's Dime Books. North American Review 99 (1864): 303-309.
Carol Billman. "McGuffey's Readers and Alger's Fiction: The Gospel of Virtue According to Popular Children's Literature." Journal of Popular Culture 11 (1977): 614-619.
Jacob Blanck. "A Twentieth-Century Look at Nineteenth-Century Children's Books." In Bibliophile in the Nursery, ed. William Targ. Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Co., 1957. pp. 427-451
John B. Boles. "Jacob Abbott and the Rollo Books: New England Culture for Children." Journal of Popular Culture 6 (1973): 507-528.
"Books for Children." Christian Examiner 2 (1825): 291-301.
"Books for Children." American Annals of Education 3 (1828): 99-103.
"Books for Children." Christian Examiner 5 (1828): 402-420.
"Books for Children." Christian Examiner 8 (March 1830): 22-35.
"Books for Our Children." Atlantic Monthly 16 (Dec. 1865): 724-735.
E. Douglas Branch. "The Children's Hour." In The Sentimental Years:1836-1860. NY: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., 1934. Repr. NY: Hill & Wang, 1962.
Simon Brown. "What Books Shall I Read?" The Mother's Assistant and the Young Lady's Friend, Feb. 1845: 37-39.
Lydia Maria Child. "Advice Concerning Books" and "List of Good Books for Various Ages." In The Mother's Book. Boston: Carter & Hendee, 1831. Repro. Cambridge, MA: Applewood Books, 1989.
"Children's Books." Christian Examiner 10 (May 1831): 212-220.
Henry Steele Commager. "When Majors Wrote for Minors." Saturday Review May 1952: 10-11.
John G. Crandall. "Patriotism and Humanitarian Reform in Children's Literature, 1825-1860." American Quarterly Spring 1969: 3-23.
Richard L. Darling. The Rise of Children's Book Reviewing in America. 1865-1881. New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1968.
F.J. Harvey Darton. "Two New Englands: 'Peter Parley' and 'Felix Summerly'." Children's Books in England, 3rd ed. London: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
F.J. Harvey Darton. "Peter Parley and the Battle of the Children's Books." The Cornhill Magazine Nov. 1932: 542-58.
Sarah Elbert. A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott and Little Women. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
Ruth Miller Elson. "American Schoolbooks and 'Culture' in the Nineteenth Century." The Mississippi Valley Historical Review Dec 1959: 411-34.
Ruth Miller Elson. Guardians of Tradition: American Schoolbooks of the Nineteenth Century. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.
J. Merton England. "The Democratic Faith in American Schoolbooks, 1783-1860." American Quarterly 15 (1963): 191-99.
Henry Ford and D. Kenneth Laub. "The McGuffey Readers." In Bibliophile in the Nursery, ed. William Targ. Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Co., 1957. pp. 417-426
Harvey Green. "Scientific Thought and the Nature of Children in America, 1820-1920." In A Century of Childhood. Rochester New York: Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, 1984.
Virginia Haviland. The Travelogue Story Book of the Nineteenth Century. Boston: The Horn Book, Inc., 1950.
Caroline M. Hewins. A Mid-Century Child and Her Books New York: Macmillan Company, 1926.
T.W. Higginson. "Children's Books of the Year." North American Review Jan. 1866: 236-49.
Clifton Johnson. Old-Time Schools and School-books. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904 [facsimile New York: Dover Press, 1963]
Alice M. Jordan. From Rollo to Tom Sawyer, and Other Papers. Boston: The Horn Book, Inc., 1948.
"Juvenile Literature." Christian Review Oct 1855: 593-601.
Reviews Jacob Abbott: Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels, Harper's Story Books; Carol Kammen. "The McGuffey Readers." Children's Literature 5 (1976): 58-63.
R. Gordon Kelly. "American Children's Literature: An Historiographical Review." American Literary Realism, 1870- 1910 6 (1973): 89-108.
Harold H. Kolb, Jr. "Why Can't Johnny Learn? (A Hypothetical Review by John Dewey of McGuffey's Fifth Reader)." Journal of Popular Culture 2 (1968): 503-09.
Eve Kornfeld and Susan Jackson. "The Female Bildungsroman in Nineteenth-Century America: Parameters of a Vision." Journal of American Culture 10 (1987): 69-75.
"Ladies' Commission on Sunday-school Books, The." Old and New May 1870: 709-12.
William W. Lawrence. "Rollo and His Uncle George." The New England Quarterly Sept. 1945: 291-302.
Stanley W. Lindberg. "Institutionalizing a Myth: The McGuffey Readers and the Self-Made Man." Journal of American Culture 2 (Spring 1979): 71-81.
"Literature of Our Sunday-Schools, The." Hours at Home 10 (1870): 293-300; 450-59; 558-67.
Anne MacLeod. "Education for Freedom: Children's Fiction in Jacksonian America." Harvard Educational Review, 46 (1976): 425-435.
Anne MacLeod. "For the Good of the Country: Cultural Values in American Juvenile Fiction, 1820-1860." Children's Literature 5 (1976): 40-51.
Anne MacLeod. A Moral Tale: Children's Fiction and American Culture, 1820-1860. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, The Shoestring Press, 1975.
Barbara Maxwell, comp. Checklist of Children's Books 1837-1876. Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Children's Department, Special Collections, 1975.
Gail S. Murray. "Rational Thought and Republican Virtues: Children's Literature, 1789-1820." Journal of the Early Republic, 8 (1988): 159-177.
Mary Noel. Villains Galore: The Heyday of the Popular Story Weekly. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954.
Fletcher Osgood. "Jacob Abbott, a Neglected New England Author." The New England Magazine, June 1904: 471-479.
Samuel Osgood. "Books for Our Children." Atlantic Monthly (1865): 724-35.
Edmund Pearson. Dime Novels; or, Following an Old Trail. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929.
Pat Pflieger. A Visit to Merry's Museum; or, Social Values in a Nineteenth-Century American Periodical for Children. Ph.D. Diss. University of Minnesota, 1987.
Samuel Pickering, Jr. "The Grave Leads but to Paths of Glory: Deathbed Scenes in American Children's Books, 1800-1860." Dalhousie Review, 59 (1979): 452-64
Jennie Lawrence Pratt. "Jacob Abbott: The Author of the Rollo Books", in Just Maine Folks. Np: 1924.
Mary E. Quinlivan. "Race Relations in the Antebellum Children's Literature of Jacob Abbott." Journal of Popular Culture 16 (1982): 27-36.
Daniel T. Rodgers. "Socializing Middle-Class Children: Institutions, Fables, and Work Values in Nineteenth-Century America." In Growing Up in America: Children in Historical Perspective, ed. N. Ray Hiner and Joseph M. Hawes. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1985: 119-132
Jean Duncan Shaw. "Children's Fiction and American History." Elementary English (Jan. 1968): 89-94.
G. Silver. "Rollo on Rollo by Rollo." The Colophon. New Graphic Series #2 (n.d.): 5-17.
Kate Steinway. "Early Nineteenth-century American Children's Books and Their Relationship to Currier & Ives Lithographs." Imprint, 18 (1993): 17-26.
Carl Jefferson Weber, comp. A Bibliography of Jacob Abbott. Waterville, ME: Colby College Press, 1948.
d'Alte A. Welch. A Bibliography of American Children's Books Printed Prior to 1821. Np: American Antiquarian Society & Barre Publishers, 1922.
Mark I. West. "Guilt and Shame in Early American Children's Literature: A Comparison of John S. C. Abbott's The Child at Home and Jacob Abbott's Rollo Books." University of Hartford Studies in Literature 18 (1986): 1-7.
Polly L. Whitney. "'If Only Papa Wouldn't Write, How Nice It Would Be': Hawthorne's Phantom Family in the Children's Books." Massachusetts Studies in English, 10 (Spring 1985): 59-79.
Bernard Wishy. "Fit for Children to Hear." In The Child and the Republic: The Dawn of Modern American Child Culture. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1972.
R. Richard Wohl. "The 'Rags to Riches Story': An Episode of Secular Idealism. " In Class, Status and Power, ed. Reinhart Bendix and Seymour M. Lipset. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1953.
Elizabeth Young. "Juvenile Biographies of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1838-1887." Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, 33 (1955): 181-197.

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