Children and youth in a new nation / edited by James Marten ; foreword by Paul S. Boyer.

Contributor(s): Marten, James Alan [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Children and youth in AmericaPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2009]Copyright date: 2009Description: 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780814759851 (e-book)Subject(s): Children -- United States -- History -- 18th century | Children -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Youth -- United States -- History -- 18th century | Youth -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Child welfare -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Children and youth in a new nation.DDC classification: 305.230973 LOC classification: HQ792.U5 | C424 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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 -- Questions for consideration -- Suggested readings -- Contributors -- Index.
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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 -- Questions for consideration -- Suggested readings -- Contributors -- Index.

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