McGuffey Readers/Bibliography

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• Copyright, Plagiarism, and . . . McGuffey's Readers: a Critical Resource on Intellectual Property in the Eighteenth and Ninteenth Centuries Contains an extensive analysis of the 1838 plagiarism case, including reproductions of some relevant original documents as well as discussion of important court cases related to the issue.
• Havighurst, Walter, Primer from a Green World, American Heritage, August 1957
• Minnich, H.C., William Holmes McGuffey and his Readers
• Monaghan, Jennifer, The Textbook as a Commercial Enterprise: the Involvement of Noah Webster andWilliam Holmes McGuffey in the Promotion of Their Reading Textbooks
• Mosier, Richard D., Making the American Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGuffey Readers' ISBN 0846205890
• Reeder, Rudolph R., The Historical Development of School Readers and Method in Teaching Reading Doctoral thesis, a classic in the field, first published in 1900, still offering a very good overview of the subject, including discussion of the New England Primer, Webster's Speller and McGuffey's Readers in addition to a section on the historical development oftechniques in the teaching of reading. Available on-line through Google Books.
• Scales, Alice b. and Li-Bi Shen, An Investigation of Questions in McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Readers
• Sullivan, Dolores P., William Holmes McGuffey: Schoolmaster to the Nation ISBN 0838635261
• Vail, Henry H., A History of the McGuffey Readers (available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15577)
• Richard Venezky, "A History of the American Reading Textbook." Elementary School Journal, 87 (3), 246-65.
• Westerhoff, John H., McGuffey and His Readers: Piety, Morality and Education in Nineteenth-Century America