Historical Research ideas

For children's literature

Children's Literature Historical Timelines

• Time line early
• Time line 1200 - 1800
• Time line 1800 - 1900
• TIme line 1900 - 2000
• Time line 2000 - 2100

Historical Artifacts related to Children's Literature

First story - on Earth - ever written?

Epic about Gilgamesh - excerpt Gilgamesh and the Humbaba

English Tapestry - before printing press arrived in England
The story about the Invasion of England or the Battle of Hastings (1066) told in thread -

Sites for the Bayeux Tapestry

Chaucer's Canterbury Tale

Three Young Men and Death

Sample pages in McGuffey Readers

• Primary reader
• Third reader

Excerpt from possibly the first comic book published in the United States

Caption reads -
Moving on to the demonstrative proof, Mr. Craniose unpacks his collection, and shows that phrenology is based on facts, that these facts are bumps, that these bumps indicate thievery in a head belonging to a thief, murder in a head belonging to a murderer, and knowledge in a head belonging to a scientist.

First known writing discovered in America