aChildren and Youth in a New Nation is a rich and welcomed
introduction to the many faces of childhood in America from the
Revolution to the eve of the Civil War. The history of childhood is
often treated as a marginal topic, disconnected from major
historical themes. This volume seeks to correct that misperception
by demonstrating that the growth of the republic and the emergence
of new ideas about childhood and the shifting experience of actual
children were inextricably linked.a
--Steven Mintz, Columbia University, and author of "Huckas Raft: A
History of American Childhood"
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 aideala 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 achild-savinga efforts by
reformers committed to constructing adequate systems of public
health and child welfare institutions.
Rootedin 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.
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