Children and youth in a new nation
By: edited by James Marten ; foreword by Paul S. Boyer.
Contributors: Marten, James Alan.
Series: Children and youth in America
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780814757420; 9780814757499
Subjects: 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 -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Paul S. Boyer; title: Introduction / James Marten; title: No greater distinction: American children and the Revolution; title: Introduction; title: Boy soldiers of the American Revolution: the effects of war on society / Caroline Cox; title: Martha Jefferson and the American Revolution in Virginia / Cynthia A. Kierner; title: In Franklin's footsteps: news carriers and post-boys in the Revolution and early republic / Vincent DiGirolamo; title: Finding a place to belong: raising ideal children; title: Introduction; title: French and American childhoods: St. Louis in the early republic / Martha Saxton; title: Growing up on the middle-ground: bicultural Creeks on the early American frontier / Andrew K. Frank; title: A child shall lead them: children and new religious groups in the early republic / Todd M. Brenneman; title: Taking a flying leap: educating young republicans; title: Introduction; title: "A few thoughts in vindication of female eloquence": the case for the education of republican women / A. Kristen Foster; title: "Pictures of the vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame": the cultural work of early national schoolbooks / Gretchen A. Adams; title: A hard world: child welfare and health reform; title: Introduction; title: Children of the public: poor and orphaned minors in the Southwest borderlands / Nancy Zey; title: Schooling and child health in the antebellum Northeast / Rebecca R. Noel; title: Documents; title: Introduction; title: Toward independence: a teenager goes visiting: the diaries of Louisa Jane Trumbull, 1835, 1837 / Holly V. Izard and Caroline Fuller Sloat; title: "Though the means were scanty": excerpts from Joseph T. Buckingham, personal memoirs and recollections of editorial life (1852) / Vincent DiGirolamo; title: A stolen life: excerpts from narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave, written by himself (1847) / James Marten; title: Questions for consideration; title: Suggested readings; title: Contributors; title: Index.