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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Alan Marten |
ISBN: | 9780814796078 0814796079 9780814796085 0814796087 9780814763391 0814763391 |
OCLC Number: | 724667554 |
Description: | xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Foreword / Steven Mintz -- "Waked up to feel" : defining childhood, debating slavery in antebellum America / Rebecca de Schweinitz -- "Train up a child in the way he should go" : the image of idealized childhood in the slavery debate, 1850-1870 / Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf -- "What is a person worth at such a time" : New England college students, sectionalism, and secession / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai -- A "rebel to [his] govt. and to his parents" : the emancipation of Tommy Cave / Thomas F. Curran -- Thrills for children : the Youth's companion, the Civil War, and the commercialization of American youth / Paul Ringel -- "Good children die happy" : confronting death during the Civil War / Sean Scott -- Children of the march : Confederate girls and Sherman's Homefront Campaign / Lisa Tendrich Frank -- Love in battle : the meaning of courtships in the Civil War and lost cause / Victoria E. Ott -- Caught in the crossfire : African American children and the idiological battle for education in Reconstruction / Troy L. Kickler -- "Free ourselves, but deprived of our children" : freedchildren and their labor after the Civil War / Mary Niall Mitchell -- Reconstructing social obligation : white orphan asylums in post-emancipation Richmond / Catherine A. Jones -- Orphans and Indians : Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools and the landscape of post war childhood / Judith Geisberg -- Preparing the next generation for massive resistance : the historical pageantry of the children of the Confederacy, 1955-1965 / J. Vincent Lowery. |
Series Title: | Children and youth in America. |
Responsibility: | edited by James Marten. |
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A solid collection of essays, organized coherently around a set of important questions, that will be of interest to both students and scholars. * History of Education * Many of the authors move beyond traditional historical sources to incorporate evidence from literature, visual art, and popular culture...highly recommended. -- S. Ferentinos * CHOICE * Marten's book is a must for anybody interested in Civil War history. -- Edmund L. Drago * The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society * The anthology covers a wide range of subjects under the general rubric of children in the Civil War era. In so doing, it does much to address previous voids. -- Wilma King * The North Carolina Historical Review * This is a suggestive and moving volume...each essay seems rich with meaning. -- Lyde Cullen Sizer Children and Youth during the Civil War Era brings together thirteen excellent essays by both established and emerging scholars of children and the Civil War.Offering both breadth and depth and considering both images of childhood and children(1)s own experiences, the essays address slavery, sectionalism, war, emancipation, reconstruction, and memory from multiple vantage points. A selection of documents further enrich this anthology, which represents the burgeoning field of childhood and youth in the Civil War era. -- Anya Jabour,author of Topsy-Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children The essays in this volume provide an engaging look at the history of youth during a pivotal era in our nation's history and should spark fruitful class discussions as well as further historical inquiry and research. * The Journal of American History * Read more...


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