Horatio Alger, Jr. Resources

Horatio Alger, Jr. ASCII Texts

The following E-texts are available at the University of Virginia:

Ragged Dick: or Street Life in New York
The Cash Boy
Joe the Hotel Boy, Or Winning Out by Pluck
Paul Prescott's Charge: A Story for Boys
The Errand Boy: or, How Phil Brent Won Success
A Fancy of Hers
Driven from Home
Bound to Rise
Paul the Peddler: or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant

The Virginia E-texts include the illustrations and the original pagination. They have been scanned for spelling errors. Some of the poetry of Horatio Alger, Jr. is now available at the Virginia web site.

University of Virginia E-texts
University of Michigan- Making of America Site
E-texts through University of Kansas
John Maynard Poem - text and history
 
 

Strive and Succeed Philosophy and Ethics

The Horatio Alger Association
Social Ethics Syllabus
Made in America -self made men in a multicultural perspective
Center for Working Class Studies

Course Syllabi / Analysis

• Individualism and Success in America
• Classical Texts in American Popular Culture
• American Studies Links
• American Studies Crossroads Project
• List of English Related Electronic Discussion Groups WWW Resources
• American and Popular Culture Web Resources
• University of Virginia Bibliographic Society
• The United States Nineteenth Century Literature

Special Collections and Museums

• Library of Congress
• Simmons College Archives and Special Collections
• Northern Illinois University Library

Founders Library at NIU has acquired a comprehensive collection of more than 2,000 books and periodicals by and about Horatio Alger, and the library now is the official repository for the archives and other papers of the Horatio Alger Society. All materials received from the Society will be cataloged and made available to interested parties through computer networks. A complete catalog of Alger's works will be prepared, and the library will continue to acquire all Alger-related monographs and dissertations, in addition to mounting periodic exhibits of the collections and hosting future conventions of the Society.
• Stanley Lieberman Memorial Collection of American Juvenile Literature, Princeton University
• University of South Florida Tampa Campus Library
• A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center
• Special Collections Department- Emory University
• Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State
• de Grummond Childrens' Literature Collection at Southern Mississipi
• Hagley Library
• Chadwyk-Healy's Archives USA
• Queens Public Library, New York
• Library of Congress

• Japanese Alger Site
• German Essay on the American Dream

Book Collectors' Websites

• Horatio Alger Society Web Site
• Alger Reprings from Gilbert Westgard II
• CompuServe Book Collectors' Web Site - maintained by Mike Berro
• Abe's Books - Price and Availability of Used Books
• Powell's Books
• Mining Company Book Collectors Resources
• International Book Collectors Association Rare Book Ring
• Deja News Usenet Search   Usenet groups frequently have information on recent bid and asked prices for Alger books. Do a search for the book title of interest.
• Books Safari
• Horatio Alger, Jr. Title Cross Reference
• Aspects of the Victorian Book

Juvenile Literature Sites

• Kay Vangergrift's YA Literature Page
• Unofficial Stratemeyer Syndicate Homepage
• Girls' Series Books
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
• Books About The Hardy Boys and Other Series
• Series Book Magazine Index - James Keeline

Gilded Age / Progressive Era

• The Gilded Age Texts and Archives
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era U.S. History Internet Resources
• H-SHGAPE Internet Resources
• The Gilded Page

Biographies of Horatio Alger, Jr.

• Scarnhorst, Gary with Jack Bales, The lost life of Horatio Alger, Jr. (Indiana University Press, 1985)
• Moon, Michael. "The gentle boy from the dangerous classes" - pederasty, domesticity and capitalism in Horatio Alger. Representations 19,Summer 1987 pages 87 - 110
• Kanfer, Stefan. "Horatio Alger: The Moral of the Story"
• Horatio Alger's Graduation Picture - Harvard 1855
• Picture of Horatio Alger's Grave

Horatio Alger's New York

• Home page for Disney Movie Newsies
• Newsboy Strike of 1899 (historic event)
• Child Labor in New York City Tenements
• How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
• Records and photographs of the National Child Labor Committee, 1904-53
• Twenty Years at Hull House Chapter XIII: Public Activities and Investigations
• Orphan Trains Bibliography
• Nineteenth Century NY Slums - Five Point HomePage
• Street Children In New York City
• Theodore Roosevelt's History of New York City
• Historical Crime Statistics
• Central Park History
• Inflation Calculator

Horatio Alger Related FAQ

Stratemeyer FAQ
 

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