FORWARD, INTO THE PAST! Jerry Pournelle republishes a book of stuff sixth graders used to read in school a hundred years ago.

When I was in junior high in the 1970s, I often read the old textbooks from the 1950s, which seemed to be written at a higher level than the ones we were using. When the Insta-Daughter was the same age, she looked at old textbooks from the 1970s, which seemed to be written at a higher level than the ones her classes were using. . . .