Social studies suffers from a lack of popularity among its prime consumers--students. Textbooks, according to some investigators, may be the problem. They dominate in classrooms as the social studies curriculum material of choice. The Peter Parley social studies books may hold clues to how social studies textbook authors can address the popularity of their product. Peter Parley is the pseudonym used by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, and the name became synonymous with popular geography, history, and other children’s books which were published during the 19th century.
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