Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth is an international peer-reviewed academic journal dealing with the development of childhood and youth cultures and the experience of young people in different times and places. The journal is open to a wide range of historical methodologies as well as other disciplines with a historical focus. As well as original research articles, it includes essays discussing contemporary issues of childhood and youth in a historical context. Each issue also includes an "object lesson" on an object from the material culture of childhood , contemporary policy pieces, and book reviews. JHCY is the official journal of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. It is indexed in Historical Abstracts and , the two principal historical indexing services. The journal was founded in 2008 and is published three times per year by the Johns Hopkins University Press.