She has compiled a database of about 30,000 entries from these textbooks, that will be published. The books she has collected for the project will be donated to the National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric at the University of New Hampshire, an international collection of materials for research in composition studies. Bloom's research, which encompasses collections of essays published from 1946 to 1996, will examine the relationship between literature and politics. After World War II, with the G.I. bill, the university became less of an elitist institution. After World War II, you can't assume that Americans have a shared culture, and this is reflected in the gradual change of liberal arts anthologies to a much broader spectrum of books on a wide range of topics, such as gender, multiculturalism, and science.
Bloom says the way courses are taught is also changing.
Her project will include an analysis of how these materials are being presented in the classroom.