The New England Primer
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The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and it becam
The New England Primer
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Noah Webster
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Noah Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Educa
The New England Primer
…remained in print well into the 19th century and was even used until the 20th century. While widely popular with colonial schools, it was supplanted by Noah Webster's Blue Back Speller after 1790. The theology of the Primer was a simplified version of Calvinism, intended mostly to inspire students to submit to the…
Portrait by James Herring, 1833
A portrait of Webster by Samuel Morse
Webster's home in New Haven, Connecticut, where he wrote An American Dictionary of the English Language; the home was later relocated to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
Webster's wife, Rebecca Greenleaf Webster