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Childhood in America / Catherine Reef.

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Another volume in the series of quotations and essays on particular aspects of US history. Chronological chapters ranging from 1790 to 2001 explore such themes as the youth of a new nation, schooling the children, the Civil War, an age of contrasts, the era of the adolescent, children on the America...

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Main Author: Reef, Catherine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Facts on File, ℗♭2002.
Series:Eyewitness history.
Subjects:
Children > United States > History.
Adolescence > United States > History.
Children > United States > Social conditions.
Youth > United States > Social conditions.
Adolescence.
Children.
Children > Social conditions.
Youth > Social conditions.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Youth of a new nation : 1790-1850
  • Schooling the children : 1777-1867
  • Slave young, slave long : 1619-1861
  • National crisis : the Civil War : 1861-1865
  • Age of contrasts : 1860-1905
  • Growing up on the Western frontier : 1840-1918
  • Child saving : 1817-1922
  • Era of the adolescent : 1900-1928
  • Depression alters children's lives : 1929-1943
  • World War II : children on the American home front : 1939-1945
  • Baby-boom generation : 1946-1970
  • Hearts and minds : African-American children face challenges : 1865-1990
  • America inhospitable to children : 1971-2001.

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