Children and Youth in a New Nation / James Marten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marten, James, Editor.

Series:

Children and youth in America.

Children and Youth in America ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare--United States--History.

Child welfare.

Youth--United States--History--19th century.

Youth.

Youth--United States--History--18th century.

Children--United States--History--19th century.

Children.

Children--United States--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

1. Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution

2. Martha Jefferson and the American Revolution in Virginia

3. In Franklin’s Footsteps

4. French and American Childhoods

5. Growing up on the Middle Ground

6. A Child Shall Lead Them

7. “A Few Thoughts in Vindication of Female Eloquence”

8. “Pictures of the Vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame”

9. Children of the Public

10. Schooling and Child Health in Antebellum New England

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-5985-8

OCLC:

779828210