Children and Youth in a New Nation / ed. by James Marten.
Adams, Gretchen A., contributor.; Boyer, Paul S., contributor.; Brenneman, Todd M., contributor.; Cox, Caroline, contributor.; DiGirolamo, Vincent, contributor.; Foster, A. Kristen, contributor.; Frank, Andrew K., contributor.; Izard, Holly V., contributor.; Kierner, Cynthia A., contributor.; Marten, James, contributor.; Marten, James, editor.; Noel, Rebecca R., contributor.; Saxton, Martha, contributor.; Sloat, Caroline Fuller, contributor.; Zey, Nancy, contributor.
2009
HQ792.U5 C424 2009
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Title Children and Youth in a New Nation / ed. by James Marten.
ISBN 9780814759851
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814757420.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 10 black and white illustrations
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814757420.001.0001 doi
Call Number HQ792.U5 C424 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.23097309033
Summary 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.
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Added Author Adams, Gretchen A., contributor.
Boyer, Paul S., contributor.
Brenneman, Todd M., contributor.
Cox, Caroline, contributor.
DiGirolamo, Vincent, contributor.
Foster, A. Kristen, contributor.
Frank, Andrew K., contributor.
Izard, Holly V., contributor.
Kierner, Cynthia A., contributor.
Marten, James, contributor.
Marten, James, editor.
Noel, Rebecca R., contributor.
Saxton, Martha, contributor.
Sloat, Caroline Fuller, contributor.
Zey, Nancy, contributor.
Series Children and Youth in America ; ; 2
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814757420
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Part I. No Greater Distinction
1. Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution
2. Martha Jefferson and the American Revolution in Virginia
3. In Franklin's Footsteps
Part II. Finding a Place to Belong
4. French and American Childhoods
5. Growing up on the Middle Ground
6. A Child Shall Lead Them
Part III. Taking a Flying Leap
7. "A Few Thoughts in Vindication of Female Eloquence"
8. "Pictures of the Vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame"
Part IV. A Hard World
9. Children of the Public
10. Schooling and Child Health in Antebellum New England
Part V. Documents
11. A Teenager Goes Visiting
12. "Though the Means Were Scanty"
13. A Stolen Life Excerpts from the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself (1847)
Questions for Consideration
Suggested Readings
About the Contributors
Index

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