Merging religious history with childhood studies, this article analyzes the rise of the Sunday
school movement to show how concepts of childhood, and young people themselves …

For at least the last five hundred years, adolescence has been a historically and culturally
contingent transition between childhood and adulthood. For the past half-century, historians …

Between 1948 and 1985, the idea of youth as a social category underwent a slow evolution
in Costa Rica. From being a relatively meaningless term during the post-civil-war period that …

Abstract In November 1873, St. Nicholas Magazine: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls
and Boys made its publishing debut. While it was intended to be a literary magazine, visual …

Learning was a contested and complicated process in eighteenth-century New York.
Conflicts over imperial and revolutionary state formation fused politics with education, and …

The historiography of the American Revolution is lacking tremendously in regard to the
participation of its patriotic women. Their contributions to the non-importation agreements of …

On the night of November 11, 1817, nineteen-year-old Rufus Choate rushed to Dartmouth
Hall from his Hanover boarding room to answer a call of alarm from his classmates …

This book examines the need for, and challenges confronting, the children's human rights
movement in the United States. It is designed to take a scholarly look at the conceptual …

My thesis focuses on the nineteenth-century Italian writer and journalist, Carlo Collodi.
Specifically, it proposes a re-reading of the texts he wrote for primary school children from …

“I have a fine opportunity of being romantic here if I was inclined. However, thank heaven I
do not deal much in the romantic stile [sic]. I hope your conversations with the wood nymphs …