IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The McGuffey Readers were a series of ...

As a National Historic Landmark, we aim to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit materials relating to the life of William Holmes McGuffey, the McGuffey Eclectic Reader series, the history of ...

William Holmes McGuffey is no longer remembered for his lectures, his sermons, or his classroom instruction, but for his Readers. The first and second and the McGuffey Primer were published in 1836.

William Holmes McGuffey was a smart kid. He was so smart that his teachers thought that he was ready to become a teacher himself at the tender age of fourteen. So in 1814, McGuffey set out for a ...

The McGuffey Readers were a series of language arts textbooks that included a primer, a speller, and readers for grade levels 1-6, each successively building on the student's skills. They were widely ...