| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

E. Jennifer Monaghan. Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book.) Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press in association with the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. 2005. Pp. xiii, 491. $49.95.

This book is the fruit of E. Jennifer Monaghan's years of experience as both teacher of reading and writing and historian of the same in early America. She is thus uniquely qualified to explain to a modern audience how colonial children learned the three Rs. Her book adds to a field that has been quiet since the 1960s and 1970s, when such historians as Bernard Bailyn, James Axtell, and, above all, Lawrence Cremin, moved beyond the institutional histories of the past to stress the multiple agencies of education in the home, church, field, and workshop as well as the school. Monaghan reminds us, however, that although many children learned their letters and began to read at home, for most any further acquisition of literacy came from formal schooling.

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