Sunday school books
Subtitle: shaping the values of youth in nineteenth-century America
By: Michigan State University Libraries and Central Michigan University, Clarke Historical Library
Contributors: Michigan State University. Libraries; Clarke Historical Library; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Sunday school literature; Religious literature, American
Other titles: Shaping the values of youth in nineteenth-century America; American memory
Description: Presents 163 Sunday school books published in America between 1815 and 1865. Drawn from the collections of Michigan State University Libraries and the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University Libraries, documents the culture of religious instruction of youth in America during the antebellum era. Individual works illustrate a number of thematic divisions that preoccupied nineteenth-century America such as sacred and secular, natural and divine, civilized and savage, rural and industrial, and adult and child. Topics include history, holidays, slavery, African Americans, Native Americans, travel and missionary accounts, death and dying, poverty, temperance, immigrants, and advice
Notes: Title from home page as viewed on July 13, 2001

Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress

Mode of access: World Wide Web

"LC/Ameritech Award Winner"
Table of contents: title: Author biographies; title: About the collection; title: Shaping the values of youth : essay; title: Building the digital collection