TY - BOOK AU - Crain,Patricia TI - The story of A: the alphabetization of America from the New England primer to the scarlet letter SN - 0804731748 : U1 - 302.22440973 PY - 2000/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Hawthorne, Nathaniel, KW - English language KW - Alphabet KW - Study and teaching KW - United States KW - Alphabetizing KW - History KW - Literacy KW - Language arts KW - Civilization N1 - Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University; Includes bibliographical references and index ER -