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
John Maynard Poem - text and history

Alger letters, Short Stories, and poems at Northern Illionois University
 
 

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

• Horatio Alger - The Moral of the Story
• Struggling Downward Essay
• American Studies Crossroads Project
• 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 Special Collections

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
• Free Library of Philadelphia
• 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
• Stanford University - Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
• Hagley Library
• Chadwyk-Healy's Archives USA

• Japanese Alger Site

Book Collectors' Websites

• Horatio Alger Society Web Site
• Polyglot Press Reprints
• Alger Reprints from Gilbert Westgard II
• Abe's Books - Price and Availability of Used Books
• Powell's Books
• Rare Book Rings
• Google Groups Google groups frequently have information on recent bid and asked prices for Alger books. Do a search for the book title of interest.
• Books Safari
• Online Market in Alger Novels

Juvenile Literature Sites

• Library of Congress Children's Literature
• Girls' Series Books
• Cinderella and the Alger Hero

Gilded Age / Progressive Era

• H-SHGAPE Internet Resources

Biographies of Horatio Alger, Jr.

• Scarnhorst, Gary with Jack Bales, The lost life of Horatio Alger, Jr. (Indiana University Press, 1985)
• Wikipedia entry for Horatio Alger
• Answers.com Biography of Alger
• City Journal Biographical Article
• Moon, Michael. "The gentle boy from the dangerous classes" - pederasty, domesticity and capitalism in Horatio Alger. Representations 19,Summer 1987 pages 87 - 110
• Famous Unitarians Website
• Horatio Alger's Graduation Picture - Harvard 1855
• Picture of Horatio Alger's Grave

Horatio Alger's New York

• Links Related to the Disney Movie "Newsies"
• Newsboy Strike of 1899 (actual event)
• Child Labor in New York City Tenements
• How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
• Records and photograph databases
• Children's Literature and the Real World
• Nineteenth Century NY Slums - Five Point HomePage
• American Historical Review Article on Five Points by Tyler Anbinder
• Theodore Roosevelt's History of New York City
• Central Park History
• Inflation Calculator

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