Lost History Books
@losthistorybooks.bsky.social
Explorer of American textbooks. 🔎
Bibliographic Adventurer 📚
Independent Researcher & Rare Book Collector 📖
Help me find lost books:
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Bibliographic Adventurer 📚
Independent Researcher & Rare Book Collector 📖
Help me find lost books:
http://losthistorybooks.com/help-me/
Oh, absolutely! Was your initial post in response to something specific that happened? I’m not on here often so sometimes I’m out of the loop.
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Oh, absolutely! Was your initial post in response to something specific that happened? I’m not on here often so sometimes I’m out of the loop.
In that vein, color scans with OCR are the next logical step. For some historians, recognizing the important work of book historians will be a massive change that long overdue.
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In that vein, color scans with OCR are the next logical step. For some historians, recognizing the important work of book historians will be a massive change that long overdue.
I don’t condone his dismissive tone, but he has a point. Some historians have been ignoring the physical material for ages. People have published transcriptions of letters for centuries. Microfilm was a great advancement but still obscured physical attributes. Reprint series have the same problem. ⬇️
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I don’t condone his dismissive tone, but he has a point. Some historians have been ignoring the physical material for ages. People have published transcriptions of letters for centuries. Microfilm was a great advancement but still obscured physical attributes. Reprint series have the same problem. ⬇️
So did I! I learned of Duff Green’s activity in Public Opinion and the Teaching of History in the United States by Bessie Pierce. archive.org/details/publ...
I’m currently researching an even earlier conflict over history education. This kind of censorship goes back way before the 1850s.
I’m currently researching an even earlier conflict over history education. This kind of censorship goes back way before the 1850s.
Public opinion and the teaching of history in the United States : Pierce, Bessie Louise, 1888-1974 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Iowa, 1923
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October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So did I! I learned of Duff Green’s activity in Public Opinion and the Teaching of History in the United States by Bessie Pierce. archive.org/details/publ...
I’m currently researching an even earlier conflict over history education. This kind of censorship goes back way before the 1850s.
I’m currently researching an even earlier conflict over history education. This kind of censorship goes back way before the 1850s.
This is wonderful! It’s such a good book. A few years ago, I made a video about the abolitionist mail campaign of 1835. I hope to expand and update it in the future. I learned so much from the Young Abolitionists that would really enrich the story. youtu.be/0LdX1RXtr6A
Whitewashing American History Part 1: 1830's
YouTube video by Lost History Books
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October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is wonderful! It’s such a good book. A few years ago, I made a video about the abolitionist mail campaign of 1835. I hope to expand and update it in the future. I learned so much from the Young Abolitionists that would really enrich the story. youtu.be/0LdX1RXtr6A
Does this kind of paper have a name? I encountered a similar blue paper containing a proofing copy of a book printed in 1862. I’ve been curious about it for a couple of years but never made much headway.
October 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Does this kind of paper have a name? I encountered a similar blue paper containing a proofing copy of a book printed in 1862. I’ve been curious about it for a couple of years but never made much headway.
For the uninitiated, that painting is titled: The Banjo Lesson. It was done by a Black artist named Henry O. Tanner in 1893.
September 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
For the uninitiated, that painting is titled: The Banjo Lesson. It was done by a Black artist named Henry O. Tanner in 1893.
@adamlaats.bsky.social I’ve been researching Black education during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Let me know if there’s any other way I can aid your research. I wrote a long article about school books made during that time period that might be useful: losthistorybooks.com/2024/03/30/l...
Literature for the Freed People
Roughly three years ago, a question began to consume me: What materials were written for Black American children during the Civil War and Reconstruction? It initially began as an extension of my fa…
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September 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
@adamlaats.bsky.social I’ve been researching Black education during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Let me know if there’s any other way I can aid your research. I wrote a long article about school books made during that time period that might be useful: losthistorybooks.com/2024/03/30/l...
@adamlaats.bsky.social Here’s another great illustration from different book by the same author. This scene shows the family playing. Later in the book, the big sister helps her little brother with his school work in front of this same fireplace.
September 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
@adamlaats.bsky.social Here’s another great illustration from different book by the same author. This scene shows the family playing. Later in the book, the big sister helps her little brother with his school work in front of this same fireplace.
@adamlaats.bsky.social that seems to be referring to informal educational practices. This textbook from 1869 has the perfect illustration of this. The young boy is educated by a professional teacher at school, then shares what he learned with his family members at home.
September 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
@adamlaats.bsky.social that seems to be referring to informal educational practices. This textbook from 1869 has the perfect illustration of this. The young boy is educated by a professional teacher at school, then shares what he learned with his family members at home.
This one was tricky, but I ultimately figured it out! This image depicts the city of Damascus, Syria. I found it in an Illustrated Family Bible published by Cassell & Co. in London, England.
books.google.com/books?id=cmK...
books.google.com/books?id=cmK...
August 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This one was tricky, but I ultimately figured it out! This image depicts the city of Damascus, Syria. I found it in an Illustrated Family Bible published by Cassell & Co. in London, England.
books.google.com/books?id=cmK...
books.google.com/books?id=cmK...
Here we see boys running away from a man carrying a stick. I found this in Picture Lessons in Verse published by the Religious Tract Society in London, England. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mc...
August 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Here we see boys running away from a man carrying a stick. I found this in Picture Lessons in Verse published by the Religious Tract Society in London, England. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mc...
This illustration depicts a drunk man at a bar. I found this in The Fools Pence printed by the American Tract Society in New York. I also found it in a few other publications by the American Tract Society over the years.
archive.org/details/sele...
archive.org/details/sele...
August 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This illustration depicts a drunk man at a bar. I found this in The Fools Pence printed by the American Tract Society in New York. I also found it in a few other publications by the American Tract Society over the years.
archive.org/details/sele...
archive.org/details/sele...
So far, I’ve been able to identify the source of a few illustrations.
This is a very simple engraving of people in a winter landscape.
I found it in a school book published in Concord, New Hampshire, USA in the 1820s. archive.org/details/amer...
This is a very simple engraving of people in a winter landscape.
I found it in a school book published in Concord, New Hampshire, USA in the 1820s. archive.org/details/amer...
August 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
So far, I’ve been able to identify the source of a few illustrations.
This is a very simple engraving of people in a winter landscape.
I found it in a school book published in Concord, New Hampshire, USA in the 1820s. archive.org/details/amer...
This is a very simple engraving of people in a winter landscape.
I found it in a school book published in Concord, New Hampshire, USA in the 1820s. archive.org/details/amer...
Ah, well, I eagerly look forward to its publication! I’ve been exploring the impact that Walker’s Appeal had on American history textbooks. So as you can imagine, nailing down the specifics is very important. I really appreciate your help.
August 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Ah, well, I eagerly look forward to its publication! I’ve been exploring the impact that Walker’s Appeal had on American history textbooks. So as you can imagine, nailing down the specifics is very important. I really appreciate your help.
Thank you for all of this, it is immensely helpful! Has your recent work on Walker been published? I would love to read and cite it.
August 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Thank you for all of this, it is immensely helpful! Has your recent work on Walker been published? I would love to read and cite it.
You just saved me a major headache! I have been trying to run down the origin of that theory. Do you happen to know which work by Nelson contains that idea?
August 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
You just saved me a major headache! I have been trying to run down the origin of that theory. Do you happen to know which work by Nelson contains that idea?
I have noticed that as well, but there are some interesting exceptions. For example, consider the crisis over Land of the Free by Caughey, Franklin, and May that began in 1966. But by the next year, educators in California and Pennsylvania had published a thorough defense of the book.
August 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I have noticed that as well, but there are some interesting exceptions. For example, consider the crisis over Land of the Free by Caughey, Franklin, and May that began in 1966. But by the next year, educators in California and Pennsylvania had published a thorough defense of the book.
Absolutely - big platform conversions always come with issues. Wishing you all the best! 🫡
July 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Absolutely - big platform conversions always come with issues. Wishing you all the best! 🫡
I dug into this a bit. And the problem appears to be on the Zotero side. It appears the Zotero Connector doesn’t currently support Ebsco Locate, the new catalog platform. I’ll contact Zotero to see if support is on the horizon.
July 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I dug into this a bit. And the problem appears to be on the Zotero side. It appears the Zotero Connector doesn’t currently support Ebsco Locate, the new catalog platform. I’ll contact Zotero to see if support is on the horizon.
It looks like this is a problem with your browser’s Zotero Connector, not the LOC Catalog. I recommend that you report the issue to support@zotero.org.
July 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It looks like this is a problem with your browser’s Zotero Connector, not the LOC Catalog. I recommend that you report the issue to support@zotero.org.