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Title Children and youth in a new nation / edited by James Marten ; foreword by Paul S. Boyer.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2009]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012.
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages :) : illustrations
text file
Series Children and youth in America.
Note OldControl:muse9780814759851.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-264) and index.
Contents Foreword / Paul S. Boyer -- Introduction / James Marten -- No greater distinction: American children and the Revolution -- Boy soldiers of the American Revolution: the effects of war on society / Caroline Cox -- Martha Jefferson and the American Revolution in Virginia / Cynthia A. Kierner -- In Franklin's footsteps: news carriers and postboys in the Revolution and early republic / Vincent DiGirolamo -- Finding a place to belong: raising ideal children -- French and American childhoods: St. Louis in the early republic / Martha Saxton -- Growing up on the middle ground: bicultural Creeks on the early American frontier / Andrew K. Frank -- A child shall lead them: children and new religious groups in the early republic / Todd M. Brenneman -- Taking a flying leap: educating young republicans -- "A few thoughts in vindication of female eloquence": the case for the education of republican women / A. Kristen Foster -- "Pictures of the Vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame": the cultural work of early national schoolbooks / Gretchen A. Adams -- A hard world: child welfare and health reform -- Children of the public: poor and orphaned minors in the Southwest borderlands / Nancy Zey -- Schooling and child health in the antebellum New England / Rebecca R. Noel -- Documents -- A teenager goes visiting: the diaries of Louisa Jane Trumbull (1835, 1837) / Holly V. Izard and Caroline Fuller Sloat -- "Though the means were scanty": excerpts from Joseph T. Buckingham's Personal memoirs and recollections of editorial life (1852) / Vincent DiGirolamo -- A stolen life: excerpts from the Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave, written by himself (1847) / James Marten -- Questions for consideration -- Suggested readings -- Contributors -- Index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Child welfare -- United States -- History.
Child welfare.
United States.
History.
Youth -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Youth.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Youth -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Children -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Children.
Children -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Indexed Term "Multi-User"
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Youth.
Children.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Added Author Marten, James Alan.
Other Form: Print version: Children and youth in a new nation. New York : New York University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008032763
ISBN 9780814759851 (electronic book)
0814759858 (electronic book)
9780814757420 (cl ; alkaline paper)
0814757421 (cl ; alkaline paper)
9780814757499 (pb ; alkaline paper)
0814757499 (pb ; alkaline paper)