Writings of Noah Webster
Nearly to the day, 251 years ago, Noah Webster was born. His contributions to our Heritage as Americans is unsurpassed, as many of his works endured as exclusive study aides for Americans for nearly 100 years.
In the era of one-room schoolhouses before the “Little House on the Prairie” model was replaced by the Taylorist Factory model, education was primarily influenced by the texts of Noah Webster.
Noah Webster understood the importance of our Christian Heritage as he wrote to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: “The history of the first English settlements in America, and of the measures which prepared the way for a revolution in the colonies, is too interesting not to be well understood by men of common curiosity and reading in this State. That history unfolds a series of great events, evidently suited to accomplish important purposes in the economy of Divine Providence . . . events which every American of expanded views must contemplate with admiration; and every Christian, with delight.”
The aims of Project::NOAH begin with the 1828 dictionary. We need to get a microfilm copy digitized, so we can proceed to made a modern reprint (and aid in the redesign of free online tools). The future may allow us to offer more of his original works to the modern community, including a letter he wrote to George Washington. The New York Public library has a full collection of many of his writings labeled the “Noah Webster Papers”, which when digitized we can make available to our current generations.
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