The Charles and E. Jennifer Monaghan Collection
Young American Readers is an exhibition drawn from donations to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library from Charles and E. Jennifer Monaghan, of Brooklyn, NY, totaling over 1,500 volumes. The books have been designated the Charles and E. Jennifer Monaghan Collection and focus on the teaching of reading and writing in Colonial America and the United States. This collection was originally the basis for the catalog Writing the Past, coauthored by Dr. Monaghan and Arlene L. Barry and published in conjunction with a historical display of literacy textbooks at the 1999 meeting of the International Reading Association in San Diego. Charles Monaghan stated, "We are donating our collection to the University of Kansas because of the presence there of an outstanding young scholar named Arlene Barry. We hope she will be able to make use of these textbooks as part of the reading education courses that she teaches."
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