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American Sunday-School Union
A prolific 19th-century religious publisher, this Philadelphia-based organization helped spread Sunday-school lessons, children's books, biographies, and moral stories across the United States. Its books were created to teach as well as entertain, and many became part of everyday family and church reading.
2 Audiobooks
Self-Denial; or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society
by American Sunday-School Union
History of Orrin Pierce
by American Sunday-School Union
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Founded in 1817 as the Sunday and Adult School Union and renamed the American Sunday-School Union in 1824, the organization grew out of an early movement to support Sunday schools and religious education in local communities. Based in Philadelphia, it became widely known for sending missionaries to start and strengthen Sunday schools, especially in developing regions of the country.
Alongside that mission work, the Union became an enormous publishing presence. It produced a steady stream of books, tracts, lesson materials, biographies, poetry, hymns, and other reading for children and families, with an emphasis on Christian teaching and moral instruction. Many older titles in digital libraries list the American Sunday-School Union as author, editor, or publisher because the organization commissioned, compiled, or distributed them.
The institution later evolved through new names and forms, eventually becoming American Missionary Fellowship and then InFaith. For readers today, the name American Sunday-School Union usually points to a rich body of 19th-century children's literature and religious nonfiction shaped by the values of the early American Sunday-school movement.