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The Michigan State University and Central Michigan University Libraries collection is a representative selection of 121 American Sunday school books from the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection and the Clarke Historical Library. Published primarily between 1815 and 1865 by the American Tract Society, the American Sunday School Union, and other religious publishers, these books for juvenile readers taught moral conduct and good citizenship. The books cover a wide range of subjects deemed particularly useful and important for socializing early nineteenth century youth, including history, holidays, slavery, African Americans, Native Americans, travel and missionary accounts, death and dying, poverty, temperance, immigrants, and advice. To help attract young readers, many of the books featured engraved illustrations (some in color). The books also offer good examples of nineteenth-century American bindings and covers. Several of the authors, such as Jacob Abbott, were widely known and popular.
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