Title: Sunday school books
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, the presentation documents the culture of religious instruction of youth in America during the antebellum era. Individual works illustrate several thematic divisions that preoccupied nineteenth-century America (such as sacred and secular, natural and divine, civilized and savage, rural and industrial, adult and child). Featured topics include history, holidays, slavery, African Americans, Native Americans, travel and missionary accounts, death and dying, poverty, temperance, immigrants, and advice.
Subjects: Sunday school literature, American Religious literature