Introduction: Education, print culture, and the negotiation of meaning in modern America / Adam R. Nelson -- Which truth, what fiction? : librarians' book recommendations for children, 1876-1890 / Kate McDowell -- A "Colored Authors Collection" to exhibit to the world and educate a race / Michael Benjamin -- Merry's flock : making something out of educational reform in the early twentieth century / Ryan K. Anderson -- Printed presence : twentieth-century Catholic print culture for youngsters in the United States / Robert A. Orsi -- Unschooled but not uneducated : print, public speaking, and the networks of informal working-class education, 1900-1940 / Frank Tobias Higbie -- "Write as you fight" : the pedagogical agenda of the Working woman, 1929-1935 / Jane Greer -- "A gentleman is no sissy" : reading, work, and citizenship in the Civilian Conservation Corps / Catherine Turner -- State regulation of the textbook industry / Adam R. Shapiro -- Teaching reading with television : constructing closed captioning using the rhetoric of literacy / Greg Downey -- Conclusion: Education, work, and the culture of print : directions for future research / James P. Danky
