Children and youth in a new nation
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Children and youth in a new nation
（Children and youth in America）
New York University Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Foreword / Paul S. Boyer
- Introduction / James Marten
- No greater distinction: American children and the Revolution
- Boy soldiers of the American Revolution: the effects of war on society / Caroline Cox
- Martha Jefferson and the American Revolution in Virginia / Cynthia A. Kierner
- In Franklin's footsteps: news carriers and postboys in the Revolution and early republic / Vincent DiGirolamo
- Finding a place to belong: raising ideal children
- French and American childhoods: St. Louis in the early republic / Martha Saxton
- Growing up on the middle ground: bicultural Creeks on the early American frontier / Andrew K. Frank
- A child shall lead them: children and new religious groups in the early republic / Todd M. Brenneman
- Taking a flying leap: educating young republicans
- "A few thoughts in vindication of female eloquence": the case for the education of republican women / A. Kristen Foster
- "Pictures of the Vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame": the cultural work of early national schoolbooks / Gretchen A. Adams
- A hard world: child welfare and health reform
- Children of the public: poor and orphaned minors in the Southwest borderlands / Nancy Zey
- Schooling and child health in the antebellum New England / Rebecca R. Noel
- Documents
- A teenager goes visiting: the diaries of Louisa Jane Trumbull (1835, 1837) / Holly V. Izard and Caroline Fuller Sloat
- "Though the means were scanty": excerpts from Joseph T. Buckingham's Personal memoirs and recollections of editorial life (1852) / Vincent DiGirolamo
- A stolen life: excerpts from the Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave, written by himself (1847) / James Marten
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the early years of the Republic, as Americans tried to determine what it meant to be an American, they also wondered what it meant to be an American child. A defensive, even fearful, approach to childhood gave way to a more optimistic campaign to integrate young Americans into the Republican experiment.
In Children and Youth in a New Nation, historians unearth the experiences of and attitudes about children and youth during the decades following the American Revolution. Beginning with the revolution itself, the contributors explore a broad range of topics, from the ways in which American children and youth participated in and learned from the revolt and its aftermaths, to developing notions of "ideal" childhoods as they were imagined by new religious denominations and competing ethnic groups, to the struggle by educators over how the society that came out of the Revolution could best be served by its educational systems. The volume concludes by foreshadowing future "child-saving" efforts by reformers committed to constructing adequate systems of public health and child welfare institutions.
Rooted in the historical literature and primary sources, Children and Youth in a New Nation is a key resource in our understanding of origins of modern ideas about children and youth and the conflation of national purpose and ideas related to child development.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ForewordPaul S. BoyerIntroduction James MartenPart I No Greater Distinction: American Children and the RevolutionPart II Finding a Place to Belong: Raising Ideal Children Part III Taking a Flying Leap: Educating Young Republicans Part IV A Hard World: Child Welfare and Health ReformPart V Documents Questions for Consideration Suggested ReadingsContributors Index
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