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Both a historical recovery and a critical rethinking of the functions and practices of textbooks, Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States argues for an alternative understanding of our rhetorical traditions. The authors describe how the pervasive influence of nineteenth-century literacy textbooks demonstrate the early emergence of substantive instruction in reading and writing. Tracing the histories of widespread educational practices, the authors treat the textbooks as an important means of cultural formation that restores a

English language --- Readers --- Textbooks --- Chrestomathies --- Preschool readers --- Anthologies --- Germanic languages --- School-books --- Schoolbooks --- Text-books --- Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. --- Composition and exercises --- Study and teaching --- History --- Rhetoric --- History and criticism --- History and criticism.