Table of Contents:
  • Literacy and the law in orthodox New England
  • Literacy and the Indians of Massachusetts Bay
  • Books read by children at home and at school
  • Death and literacy in two devout Boston families
  • The literacy mission of the S.P.G
  • Literacy and the Mohawks
  • Schools, schoolteachers, and schoolchildren
  • The rise of the spelling book
  • Literacy instruction and the enslaved
  • Writing instruction
  • The new world of children's books
  • Literacy in three families of the 1770s