Jacqueline Olich: Why Teach Childhood? Part I
"Street Scene" (1930) Frank Whitson Fetter Papers, Duke University Everyone has a childhood. Therefore, the history of childhood is accessible to students of history and intrinsically compelling. It...
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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, "1919" (1934) For much of the twentieth century, the United States and the Soviet Union were superpowers engaged in a struggle against one another in which children were held up as...
View ArticleJulie deGraffenried, Teaching Childhood in High School
Integrating Childhood, Children’s, and Youth History into High School History Courses For three years after graduation from college, I taught social studies – all of them – in a small high school in...
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