Sept. 9:
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Introduction: Childhood and History
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Sept. 16:
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Childhood in Pre-Industrial Societies
Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood, 9-11
Peter Moogk, “Les Petits Sauvages”
Philip Greven, “Breaking Wills”
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Sept. 23:
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Childrearing in the Early American Republic
Victoria Bissell Brown and Timothy Shannon, “Family Values”
FIRST PAPER DUE!!
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Sept. 30:
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Gender and the Middle-Class Child
Jane Hunter, “Daughters’ Lives and the Work of the Middle-Class
Home”
Anthony Rotundo, “Boy Culture”
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Oct. 7:
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Working-Class Childhood
Bettina Bradbury, “Fragmented Family”
Christine Stansell, “Women, Children, and the Uses of the
Streets
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Oct. 14:
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Stolen Childhood: Slavery and War
James Pennington, “The Fugitive Blacksmith” (1849)
Harriet Jacobs, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
(1861)
James Marten, “War Ain’t Nuthin’ but Hell”
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Oct. 21:
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Children Reading, Reading Children
Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick (orig. 1868)
ARTICLE CRITIQUE DUE!!
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Oct. 28:
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Redeeming Children: Orphan Trains
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Kansas Charley, 1-103
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Nov. 4:
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Redeeming Children: Child Emigration to Canada
Brumberg, Kansas Charley, 104-154
RE-WRITE DUE !!
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Nov. 11:
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“Bad” Beyond Redemption? Criminals and “Defectives”
Brumberg, Kansas Charley, 155-end
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Nov. 18:
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Child Labour at the Turn of the Century
Viviana Zeliser, “From Useful to Useless”
Robert McIntosh, “The Boys in the Nova Scotian Coal Mines”
The History Place, “Child Labor in America: Photographs of
Lewis W. Hine”
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
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Nov. 25:
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Children in School I
Harro Van Brummelen, “Shifting Perspectives”
The McGuffey Readers (1879), selections
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Dec. 2:
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Children in School II: Native Residential Schools
Jean Barman, “Schooled for Inequality”
Zitkala-Sa, “The School Days of an Indian Girl” (1900)
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gcarr/19cUSWW/ZS/SDIG.html
PHOTOGRAPH ANALYSIS DUE !!
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DECEMBER EXAM
DATE TBA – GOOD LUCK! -- HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!
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Jan. 6:
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Immigrant Children
Selma Berrol, “Immigrant Children at School”
Vicki Ruiz, “Star Struck”
Sadie Frowne, “The Story of a Sweatshop Girl” (1902)
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Jan. 13:
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The Nature and Nurture of Children’s Bodies
Peter Stearns, “Children’s Sleep”
Mona Gleason, “Embodied Negotiations”
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Jan. 20:
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Adolescence, Psychology, and Intergenerational Conflict
Tamara Myers, “Qui t’a débauchée?”
Jane Addams, Spirit of Youth and City Streets (1909), chap. 2
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Jan. 27:
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School Life and Popular Culture in the Interwar Years
Cynthia Commachio, “Inventing the Extracurriculum”
Robert and Helen Lynd, “School Life” in Middletown (1929)
PAPER PROPOSAL DUE !!
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Feb. 3:
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Depression and War: the Child’s View
Robert Cohen, Dear Mrs. Roosevelt, excerpts
Charles Johnston, “The Children’s War”
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar, excerpt
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Feb. 10:
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Childhood as Spectacle: the Dionne Quints and Shirley Temple
begin reading Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat, 1-76
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Feb. 17:
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Reading Week – No Class
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Feb. 24:
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Youth Culture and Institutions at Mid-Century
Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat, 77-143.
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March 3:
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Child Protection, Children’s Rights: Children and the State
Declarations of the Rights of the Child, 1924 & 1959
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/childrights.html
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/k1drc.htm
Dominique Marshall, “Reconstruction Politics”
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March 10:
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Racism, Resistance and the Child
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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March 17:
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Growing Up in the Postwar Years
Doug Owram, “Consuming Leisure”
Allan Bérubé with Florence Bérubé, “Sunset
Trailer Park”
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March 24:
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Youth Culture in the 1960s
Doug Owram, “Rise of the Counterculture”
Connie Dvorkin, “The Suburban Scene”
FINAL PAPER DUE !!
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March 31:
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Summing Up: The Past, Present, and Future of Childhood
Neil Postman, “The Disappearing Child”
George Lipsitz, “We Know What Time It Is”
Alissa Quart, “Branded”
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