HIST 3320: The History of Childhood

What does it mean to think historically by Thomas Andrews and Flannery Burke | Jan 1, 2007

Steven Mintz, “Childhood has a History”

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Introduction In Childhood in world history. ProQuest Ebook Central

Thane, P. (1981). Childhood in History In M. King, Childhood, welfare and justice: A critical examination of children in the legal and childcare systems . London: Batsford Academic and Educational Ltd.

Exploring Sources: Writing about children vs. writing for children vs. writing by children. The George Mason University (GMU) website

Anastasia Ulanowicz (n.d) Philippe Ariès. Representing Childhood - Theorists - Philippe Ariès

Montgomery, Heather. (2019, Mar. 1) “Different Cultures, Different Childhoods”. OpenLearn Open University

Thorne, Barrie. "Re-Visioning Women and Social Change: Where Are the Children?," Gender and Society 1, no. 1 (1987): 85-109.

Maza, S. (2020). The Kids Aren’t All Right: Historians and the Problem of Childhood. American Historical Review, 125(4), 1261–1285.

NOTE: This is a commercial site but gives you an idea and takes you to different links.

For authentic images or pictures, search ARTstor, the most reliable resource for academic and scholarly use

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Childhood in Agricultural Societies: The First Big Changes. In Childhood in World History. ProQuest Ebook Central

Citation: Anne Kinney, "Ancient China," in Children and Youth in History, Item #187, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/187

Citation: "Mencius and his Mother: A Lesson Drawn from Weaving" [Literary Excerpt and Illustration]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #189, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/189 Annotated by Anne Kinney

Citation: "The Book of Rites, Early Education and Gender Differentiation [Literary Excerpt]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #194, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/194 Annotated by Anne Kinney

Citation: "Indus Valley Climbing Monkey Toy [Object]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #312, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/312 Annotated by Susan Douglass

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Chapter 2 Childhood in the Classical Civilizations. In Childhood in World History. ProQuest Ebook Central

"Ancient Greek Girl Athlete [Sculpture]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #383, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/383

"Ancient Greek Adolescent Girls at Play [Sculpture]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #381, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/381

Beryl Rawson, "Roman Children’s Sarcophagi," in Children and Youth in History, Item #52, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/52

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Chapter 3 Childhood in the Postclassical World History” In Childhood in World History. ProQuest Ebook Central

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Chapter 4 Childhood in the Postclassical World History” In Childhood in World History. ProQuest Ebook Central

Nicholas Orme. Representing Childhood in Medieval England, c. 500-1500

Michael Witmore "Childhood in Early Modern England, c. 1500-1700"

Shona Kelly Wray, "Children during the Black Death," in Children and Youth in History, Item #167, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/167

Giovanni Boccaccio, "Decameron [Literary Excerpt]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #177, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/177 Annotated by Shona Kelly Wray

Carinus, "Testament of a Father during the Black Death [Will]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #180, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/180 Annotated by Shona Kelly Wray

Ursollina, "Testament of a Mother during the Black Death [Will]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #181, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/181 Annotated by Shona Kelly Wray

"Examination of Sarah Carrier [Legal Document]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #282, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/282 Annotated by Tom Rushford

Andrew O’Malley. The Eighteenth-Century Child

This E-text is from the edition included in The Educational Writings of John Locke, edited by John William Adamson, published by Cambridge University Press in 1922. This edition was based primarily on the 1693 first print, but it includes most of the passages that Locke added in subsequent prints. For better readability, Adamson slightly modernized the spelling, replacing words like strengthen'd" or "physick" with "strengthened" and "physic", and using lowercase where in the original Print, numerous Nouns had Capitals like in this Sentence.

"Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 18 Jan. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Thoughts_Concerning_Education

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Jules Steeg, and Eleanor Worthington. Émile, Or, Concerning Education: Extracts Containing the Principal Elements of Pedagogy Found in the First Three Books. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co, 1889. Internet resource.

"Emile, or On Education." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Feb. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education

Steven Kreis. (13 Apr. 2012) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and the Vindication on the Rights of Women.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. New York: Bartleby.com, Inc, 1999. Internet resource. NOTE: Read Chapter XII, “On National Education,” https://www.bartleby.com/144/12.html (Read from para 68 onwards)

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Forces of Change and the Modern Model of Childhood, Developments in the West: Eighteenth century to 1914. In Childhood in World History. ProQuest Ebook Central

Christopher Rovee. The Romantic Child, c.1780-1830

Marah Gubar. The Victorian Child, c.1837-1901

Dan Moorhouse (n.d) Women and Children During the Industrial Revolution in England. BBC

For comparison with the present, visit the Human Rights Watch website on Child Labor:

Swapna Banerjee, “The Many Worlds of Indian Children” (pdf on BB)

Swapna Banerjee, “Imagining Children” (pdf on BB)

Topdar, S. (2015). Duties of a ‘good citizen’: colonial secondary school textbook policies in late nineteenth-century India. South Asian History & Culture, 6(3), 417–439. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1080/19472498.2015.1030877

Bond, R. (1992). Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
I recommend stories 11-29 but all of them are great. Read 19 and 22. Other short stories to be added.

Olga Nieuwenhuys, “Is there an Indian Childhood?,” Childhood, Vol 16(2): 147–153. DOI 10.1177/0907568209104398

Stearns, P. N. (2016) Chapter 6 Alongside the Modern Model: The Pressure of Colonialism. In Childhood in World HistoryProQuest Ebook Central

Steven Mintz, "Childhood and Transatlantic Slavery," in Children and Youth in History, Item #57, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/57

Joseph E. Illick, “Chapter 12 African American Childhood,” In The Global History of Childhood, ed. Heidi Morrison. (pdf on BB)

Jacobs, H. (2001). Incidents in The Life of A Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed: I - XLI. In H. Jacobs, Dover Thrift Editions. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (p. 8). Dover Publications. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2270700008/LITF?u=cuny_broo39667&sid=bookmark-LITF&xid=cd5005ea

FYI: All CUNY members have free access to The New York Times. To access Create Account: New York Times
Citation: Mary Elliott and Jazmine Hughes’ essay “This is the History You Didn’t Learn in School” in NYT 1619 project

Tom Sayer. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Julia Mickenberg, "Girlhood and Little Women," in Children and Youth in History, Item #80, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/80

Alcott, L. M. (2014). Little women. ProQuest Ebook Central

"Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa [Photograph and Scholarly Text]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #329, https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/items/show/329 Annotated by Miriam Forman-Brunell

Haskins, V. (2019). Domesticating Colonizers: Domesticity, Indigenous Domestic Labor, and the Modern Settler Colonial Nation. American Historical Review, 124(4), 1290–1301. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1093/ahr/rhz647

"Impressions of an Indian Childhood" by Zitkala-Sa [aka Gertrude Simmons Bonnin] (1876-1938)

American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa. Washington: Hayworth Publishing House, 1921. pp. 7-45.

Milanich, Nara. "Chapter 4 Historical Perspectives on llegitimacy and Illegitimates in Latin America,” In Morrison, H. (2013). The Global History of Childhood Reader.

Slave Women and Children [Law]. (an example from Africa). The George Mason University (GMU) website

CIGH Exeter (Centre for Imperial and Global History at the History Department, University of Exeter). (2018, Oct. 1) Did the British Empire depend on separating parents and children? Imperial & Global Forum Centre for Imperial and Global History at the History Department, University of Exeter

Mukpo, Ashoka. (2021, Jun. 11) “The Ice Kids” ACLU

Alexander, K. (2012). Can the girl guide speak? The perils and pleasures of looking for children's voices in archival research. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 4(1), 132+.

Mary Jo Maynes,. "Age as a Category of Historical Analysis: History, Agency, and Narratives of Childhood." The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 1, no. 1 (2008): 114-124.

Leow, R. (2012). Age as a Category of Gender Analysis: Servant Girls, Modern Girls, and Gender in Southeast Asia. The Journal of Asian Studies, 71(4), 975–990. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23357430

Pande, I. (2013), ‘Listen to the Child’: Law, Sex, and the Child Wife in Indian Historiography. History Compass, 11: 687-701. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1111/hic3.12077

Maza, S. (2020). The Kids Aren’t All Right: Historians and the Problem of Childhood. American Historical Review, 125(4), 1261–1285. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1093/ahr/rhaa380

Pande, I. (2020). Is the History of Childhood Ready for the World? A Response to “The Kids Aren’t All Right.” American Historical Review, 125(4), 1300–1305. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1093/ahr/rhaa383

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Chapter 7 Japan Adapts the New Model: A Process of Change in Asia In Childhood in world history. ProQuest Ebook Central

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Chapter 8 Childhood and Communist Revolutions In Childhood in world history. ProQuest Ebook Central

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Chapter 9 Childhood in the Affluent Societies In Childhood in world history. ProQuest Ebook Central

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Chapter 10 Children in the Developing Worlds In Childhood in world history. ProQuest Ebook Central

Uno, K. (1999). Chapter 2 Child-Rearing in the Nineteenth-Century. In Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (pp. 19-46). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824863883-004

Waller, Richard. Case Study Maasai Murran as Rebellious Youth (20th c). The George Mason University (GMU) website

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Chapter 11 The Dislocations of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Children Face War and Violence. In Childhood in World History. ProQuest Ebook Central

Explore the Human Rights Watch site on child labor

HOSLAC (History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean) (n.d) Eugenics (1900-1960) https://mypages.unh.edu/hoslac/book/eugenics-1900-1960

Stern, A.M. (1999), Responsible Mothers and Normal Children: Eugenics, Nationalism, and Welfare in Post-revolutionary Mexico, 1920–1940. Journal of Historical Sociology, 12: 369-397. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1111/1467-6443.00097

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Chapter 12 Globalization and Childhoods. In Childhood in World History. ProQuest Ebook Central

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Chapter 13 The Dilemma of Children’s Happiness. In Childhood in World History. ProQuest Ebook Central

Stearns, P. N. (2016). Conclusion: Childhoods from Past toward Future. In Childhood in World History. ProQuest Ebook Central

UNICEF. (n.d) What is the Convention on the Rights of the Child? The world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty in history.
Explore the site to listen to children’s voices and garner information on children around the globe.

Balagopalan, S. (2011) “Introduction: Children’s Lives and the Indian Context,” Childhood 2011, 18 (3): 291-297.

Balagopalan, S. (2019). “Afterschool and during vacations”: on labor and schooling in the postcolony. Children’s Geographies, 17(2), 231–245. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1080/14733285.2018.1490008