Teaching Tools

About Teaching Tools | Terms & Searching | Tutorials | Essays & Galleries by Subject
Sample Lesson Plans & Teachers' Resources by Subject

About Teaching Tools

The PBO project offers many opportunities to learn more about aspects of American history, life and culture. In addition to developing a structured contolled vocabulary, we have developed several essays, galleries, lesson plans, and other resources. The resources listed below are ideal for the lifelong learner, as well as teachers and students in K-12. To accompany many of the galleries and essays, we have developed lesson plans and other resources to be used in the classroom. Each lesson plan has been created with educational standards in mind and is geared toward different age groups. We will be adding more lesson plans, galleries, and other teaching resources on a regular basis. We welcome your comments and ideas about these resources and about the PBO project in general.

Terms and Searching

• Controlled Vocabulary for Subject Headings
  This comprehensive list of terms used to describe both the book bindings themselves and the imagery on the covers is provided here. The list allows users to scan through the terms we have used. Each subject heading term is clickable and allows access to the search results for that term.

Tutorials

• Tutorial: Keyword Searching and emailing a PBO record (Requires Macromedia Flash Player)

Essays and Galleries by Subject

• Publishers' Bindings by Decade: A series of eleven essays on the history and culture of each era, along with a gallery search in the PBO database of each decade accessible through each decade gallery page.
• Progress & Invention:
  Representations of the Industrial Revolution in America as Reflected in Bookbindings
• “The Most Written-About War in History”: Civil War Themes in Fact and Fiction
• Abraham Lincoln, Civil War President
• Heroes of the "Lost Cause"
• Confederate Imprints: Publishing in the Civil War South
• Booker T. Washington: Author, Educator, Advocate
• Tokens of Affection: Art, Literature, and Politics in Nineteenth Century American Gift Books
  

19th Century Literary History

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A 19th-Century Bestseller
• Confederate Imprints: Publishing in the Civil War South
• Louisa May Alcott: Little Woman, Big Pen
• Lafcadio Hearn: 19th-Century World Citizen
• “The Most Written-About War in History”: Civil War Themes in Fact and Fiction
• "Moonlight and Magnolias": History and Literature in the Big Easy
• Son of a Comet, Star of the West: The Life and Literature of “Mark Twain”
• Black and White: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Race in Post-Civil War Literature
• True Tales of Bondage and Freedom: Nineteenth Century Slave Narratives
• Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century; Part I: Thomas Nelson Page's Literature of the Lost Cause
• Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century; Part II: Ellen Glasgow's Feminist Approach to the Old South
• Southern Writers and Local Color: A Regional Twist on a National Trend
• The Artistic Collaboration between Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) & Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904)

African-American History

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A 19th-Century Bestseller
• Publishers' Bindings from the Wade Hall Collection of Southern History and Culture
• Abraham Lincoln, Civil War President
• Black and White: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Race in Post-Civil War Literature
• True Tales of Bondage and Freedom: Nineteenth Century Slave Narratives
• Booker T. Washington: Author, Educator, Advocate
  

The American South

• Publishers' Bindings from the Wade Hall Collection of Southern History and Culture
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A 19th-Century Bestseller
• “The Most Written-About War in History”: Civil War Themes in Fact and Fiction
• Heroes of the "Lost Cause"
• "Moonlight and Magnolias": History and Literature in the Big Easy
• Confederate Imprints: Publishing in the Civil War South
• True Tales of Bondage and Freedom: Nineteenth Century Slave Narratives
• Booker T. Washington: Author, Educator, Advocate
• Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century; Part I: Thomas Nelson Page's Literature of the Lost Cause
• Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century; Part II: Ellen Glasgow's Feminist Approach to the Old South
• Southern Writers and Local Color: A Regional Twist on a National Trend

The American West

• Indians, the Frontier, and the West in American Bookbindings
• Son of a Comet, Star of the West: The Life and Literature of "Mark Twain"

Book Arts and Bookbindings

• Silver & Gold: The Art of Metal Stamping
• Gallery of Book-Cloth Grain Patterns
• Founded in Handcraft: The Roots of Publishers’ Bindings
• Publishers’ Bindings & Their Designers: Making Their Mark
• Galleries of Artistic Styles and Movements
• The Artistic Collaboration between Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) & Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904)

Exoticism

• Lafcadio Hearn: 19th-Century World Citizen

German-American History and Culture

• Publishers’ Bindings from the Max Kade Institute

The Industrial Revolution

• Progress & Invention:
  Representations of the Industrial Revolution in America as Reflected in Bookbindings

Women's History

• From Domestic Goddesses to Suffragists: The Story of Women Told on Bookbindings, 1820-1920
• Louisa May Alcott: Little Woman, Big Pen
• Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century; Part II: Ellen Glasgow's Feminist Approach to the Old South