Volume 1 (Fall Term)

Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Chidhood: A Social History of Family Life (New York: Vintage, 1962), 9-11. ISBN 0-394-70286-7. 447 pages.

Peter N. Moogk, “Les Petits Sauvages: The Children of Eighteenth-Century New France,” in Histories of Canadian Children and Youth, eds. Nancy Janovicek and Joy Parr (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003), 36-56. ISBN 0195417925, 317 pages). From article originally published in Childhood and Family in Canadian History, Joy Parr, ed., (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982), = ISBN 0771069383, 221 pages)

Philip Greven, “Breaking Wills in Colonial America,” in Anya Jabour, ed., Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), 86-96. From Greven, The Protestant Temperament (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977): 32-38, 42-46, 49-55 = ISBN 0226308308, 432 pages total).

Victoria Bissell Brown and Timothy J. Shannon, “Family Values: Advice Literature for Parents and Children in the Early Republic,” in Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader in American History (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004), 152-158, 160-168. ISBN 0-312-40204-X. 351 pages.

Jane Hunter, “Daughters’ Lives and the Work of the Middle-Class Home,” in How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 12-37. ISBN 0-300-09263-6. 478 pages.

Anthony Rotundo, “Boy Culture,” in The Children’s Culture Reader, ed. Henry Jenkins (New York: NYU Press, 1998), 337-362. ISBN 0-8147-4232-7. 532 pages. From Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolutionary to the Modern Era, pp. 31-55.

Bettina Bradbury, The Fragmented Family: Family Strategies in the Face of Death, Illness, and Poverty, Montreal, 1860-1885,” in Childhood and Family in Canadian History ed. Joy Parr (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982), 109-128, 204-209.

Christine Stansell, “Women, Children, and the Uses of the Streets: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City, 1850-1860,” Feminist Studies 8 (Summer 1982): 309-335.

James W.C. Pennington, “The Fugitive Blacksmith (1849)” reprinted in I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives, ed Yuval Taylor (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999), 114-119.

Harriet Jacobs, “Life of a Female Slave,” excerpted from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), reprinted in America Firsthand: Readings from Settlement to Reconstruction, 4th ed., eds. Robert D. Marcus and David Burner (Boston: Bedford Books, 1997), 215-222.

James Marten, “War Ain’t Nuthin’ but Hell on Dis Earth,” from The Children’s Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1998): 6-30. ISBN: 0807824259, 380 pages.

Viviana A. Zelizer, “From Useful to Useless: Moral Conflict over Child Labor,” in The Children’s Culture Reader, ed. Henry Jenkins (New York: New York University Press, 1998): 81-94. From Pricing the Priceless Child: the Changing Social Value of Children (New York: Basic Books, 1985), 56-72. Book = 296 pages.

Robert McIntosh, “The Boys in the Nova Scotian Coal Mines: 1873-1923,” in Histories of Canadian Children and Youth, eds. Nancy Janovicek and Joy Parr (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003), 77-87. From Acadiensis 16 (Spring 1987): 35-50.

Harro Van Brummelen, “Shifting Perspectives: Early British Columbia Textbooks from 1872 to 1925,” in Schools in the West: Essays in Canadian Educational History (Calgary: Detselig Enterprises, 1986), 57-71. ISBN 0-920490-57-3.

From Elliott Gorn, ed., The McGuffey Readers: Selections from the 1879 Edition (Boston: Bedford Books, 1998), 48-49, 72-75, 95-96, 102-103, 128. ISBN 0312133987, 202 pages.

Jean Barman, “Schooled for Inequality: The Education of British Columbia Aboriginal Children,” in Histories of Canadian Children and Youth, eds. Nancy Janovicek and Joy Parr (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003), 212-235. ISBN 0195417925, 317 pages.

History 1080: Growing Up in North America
Volume 2: Winter Term

Selma Berrol, “Immigrant Children at School, 1880-1940,” in Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950, eds. Elliott West and Paula Petrik (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992), 42-60, 325-327. ISBN 07006-5118. 403 pages.

Vicki L. Ruiz, “’Star Struck’: Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920-1950,” in Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950 eds. Elliott West and Paula Petrik (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992), 61-80, 327-334. ISBN 07006-5118. 403 pages.

Sadie Frowne, “The Story of a Sweatshop Girl,” in Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women, eds. Nancy Cott et al. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996), 426-432. Originally published in Independent 54 (September 25, 1902), 2279-82.

Peter N. Stearns, Perrin Rowland, and Lori Giarnella, "Children's Sleep: Sketching Historical Change," Journal of Social History 30 (1997): 345-366.

Mona Gleason, “Embodied Negotiations: Children’s Bodies and Historical Change in Canada, 1930 to 1960,” Journal of Canadian Studies 34 (1999): 112-138.

Tamara Myers, “Qui t’a d’ébauchée?: Family, Adolescent Sexuality and the Juvenile Delinquent’s Court in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal,” in Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History, eds. Lori Chambers and Edgar-Andre Montigny (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1998), 377-394. ISBN 1551300958. 510 pages.

Jane Addams, The Spirit of Youth and City Streets (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910), 25-47. 162 pages.

Cynthia Commachio, “Inventing the Extracurriculum: High School Culture in Interwar Ontario,” Ontario History 93 (2001): 33-56.

Robert and Helen Lynd, “School ‘Life’,” in Middletown: A Study in American Culture (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1929), 211-222. 550 pages.

Robert Cohen, ed. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 43-44, 45-46, 60, 72-74, 100, 118-119, 134-135, 184, 188-189, 210-212, 220-221, 232. 280 pages.

Charles Johnston, “The Children’s War: The Mobilization of Ontario Youth during the Second World War, in Patterns of the Past Interpreting Ontario’s History, eds Roger Hall, William Westfall, and Laurel S. MacDowell (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1988). 356-380. ISBN 1550020358. 405 pages.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, “A Resident of Manzanar Internment Camp Looks Back on Her Wartime and Postwar Experiences, 1940s,” in Anya Jabour, ed., Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), 332-335. From Farewell to Manzanar: a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972), 20-27. 224 pages.

“The Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1924),” and “The Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959),” in Histories of Canadian Children and Youth, eds. Nancy Janovicek and Joy Parr (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003), v

Dominique Marshall, “Reconstruction Politics, the Canadian Welfare State, and the Ambiguity of Children’s Rights, 1940-1950,” in Histories of Canadian Children and Youth, eds. Nancy Janovicek and Joy Parr (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003), 255-274. From Uncertain Horizons: Canadians and their World in 1945, ed. Greg Donaghy. (Ottawa: Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War, 1996), 261-83.

Doug Owran, “Consuming Leisure,” in Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), 84-110. ISBN: 0802059570. 392 pages.

Allan Bérubé with Florence Bérubé, “Sunset Trailer Park,” in White Trash: Race and Class in America (New York: Routledge, 1997), 15-39. ISBN 0-415-91692-5. 272 pages.

Doug Owram, “Rise of the Counterculture,” in Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), 185-215. ISBN: 0802059570. 416 pages.

Connie Dvorkin, “The Suburban Scene,” in Sisterhood is Powerful, ed. Robin Morgan (New York: Vintage, 1920), 407-411. ISBN 0394705394. 602 pages

Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (Vintage, 1994), 120-142. ISBN 0679751661, 192 pages.

George Lipsitz, “We Know What Time It Is: Race, Class and Youth Culture in the Nineties,” in Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture (New York: Routledge, 1994), 17-28. Originally published in Centro (Winter 1993).

Alissa Quart, Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers (Basic, 2004), 3-16. ISBN: 0738208620, 256 pages.