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Family

Armitage, Kevin C., “‘The Child Is Born a Naturalist’: Nature Study, Woodcraft Indians, and the Theory of Recapitulation,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6 (Jan. 2007), 43–70.

Balcom, Karen, et al., “Roundtable: Babies across Borders: Problems for Women’s History in the Study of Transborder Adoption,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (no. 1, 2007), 105–50.

Edgell, Penny, and Danielle Docka, “Beyond the Nuclear Family? Familism and Gender Ideology in Diverse Religious Communities,” Sociological Forum, 22 (March 2007), 26–51.

Hare, Alison, “Searching for Greens at the Time of Peter Robinson,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 95 (March 2007), 5–16.

Hayden, Richard A., “Resolving the Inexplicable: The Marriage Bond of Archibald Young and Lettice Morgan,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 95 (March 2007), 5–16.

Krasner, Jonathan B., “The Interwar Family and American Jewish Identity in Clifford Odet’s Awake and Sing!,” Jewish Social Studies, 13 (Fall 2006), 2–30.

Martinez, Katharine, “The Dickinsons of Amherst Collect: Pictures and Their Meanings in a Victorian Home,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.

McKanan, Dan, “Inventing the Catholic Worker Family,” Church History, 76 (March 2007), 84–113.

 

Mills, Nancy Patton, “Portraits through the Lens of Historicity: The American Family as Portrayed in Ladies’ Home Journal, 1950–1959” (Duquesne University, 2006). Order No. DA3220866.

Smith, Sarah Frances, “‘She moves the hands that move the world’: Antebellum Childrearing. Images of Mother and Child in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals for Mothers” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA33225774.

 

Levi, Linda, “Growing Up as a ‘Newmark’ in Los Angeles, 1935–1950,” Western States Jewish History, 39 (Spring 2007), 236–73.

Milewski, Melissa Lambert, ed., Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. xiv, 639 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87421-644-8.)

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