San Antonio College Library

"From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775-1850 explores the experience of childhood in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Beginning with the child-rearing concepts of John Locke and those who popularized and elaborated on his views, author Jacqueline S. Reinier traces how the enlightened hope of the malleability of the child was folded into the ideology of the early American republic. As cultural leaders sought to mold children...

Publisher's description: The experiences of children in America have long been a source of scholarly fascination and general interest. In American Childhoods, Joseph Illick brings together his own extensive research and a synthesis of literature from a range of disciplines to present the first comprehensive cross-cultural history of childhood in America. Beginning with American Indians, European settlers, and African slaves and their differing perceptions...

From the time that the infant colonies broke away from the parent country to the present day, narratives of U.S. national identity are persistently configured in the language of childhood and family. In The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader, contributors address matters of race, gender, and family to chart the ways that representations of the child typify historical periods and conflicting ideas. They build on the recent critical renaissance...

Publisher description: Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now, Steven Mintz gives us the first comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child's and the adult's tumultuous early years of life. Underscoring diversity...

Conflicting Paths is an innovative history of growing up in America that includes analysis, testimonial evidence and the documentation from autobiographies, diaries and correspondence from more than 500 individuals.

Looking at the wide variety of artistic genius in children's books, Show and Tell teaches the reader how to look for the perfect marriage of art and text, and is an invaluable guide for anyone interested in children's books and the art of illustration.

If you believe the experts, "child's play" is serious business. But what do we know about how children actually play, especially American children of the last two centuries? In this book, Howard Chudacoff presents a history of children's play in the United States and ponders what it tells us about ourselves. Through expert investigation in primary sources-including dozens of children's diaries, hundreds of autobiographical recollections of adults,...

How should society care for the children of parents who cannot, will not, or choose not to care for their sons and daughters full time? What is the best way to bring up children when both parents work? These are contemporary concerns, yet the same questions have been asked - and answered - throughout American history. In Minding the Children, Geraldine Youcha gives us the first well-documented overview of the different ways children in this country...

Palmer was one of the founders of the pioneering Children's Television Workshop 20 years ago. Based on this experience and his visits to several countries around the world suggests several models for what the U.S. might be doing with television if commercial success were not the main criterion. Palmer assesses why commercial television has failed, the limited and limiting role of the Federal Communications Commission, the successes of public broadcasting,...

"Why is the United States one of the few advanced democratic market societies that do not offer child care as a universal public benefit or entitlement? This book - a comprehensive history of child care policy and practices in the United States from the colonial period to the present - shows why the current child care system evolved as it did and places its history within a broad comparative context."--Jacket.