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Children and Childhood

Gillis, Jonathan, “Taking a Medical History in Childhood Illness: Representations of Parents in Pediatric Texts since 1850,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Fall 2005), 393–429.

Holt, Marilyn Irvin, “Children’s Health and the Campaign for Better Babies,” Kansas History, 28 (Autumn 2005), 174–87.

Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Christina Collins, and Mark J. Stern, “Falling Far from the Tree: Transitions to Adulthood and the Social History of Twentieth-Century America,” Social Science History, 29 (Winter 2005), 625–48.

Starks, Brian, “Who Values the Obedient Child Now? The Religious Factor in Adult Values for Children, 1986–2002,” Social Forces, 84 (Sept. 2005), 343–59.

 

Shiner, Marlene Michelle, “A Child’s Place in the Home: Creating a Post-Divorce Legally Enforceable Right for Children in the Family Home” (Cornell University, 2005). Order No. DA3173385.

Towers, Iris, “When the Bough Breaks: Dependent Children in Westchester County, New York, 1880–1914” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3169992.

 

Gang, Qian, and Hu Jingcao, Liumei Youtong: Zhongguo zuizaode guanpa liuxuesheng (Chinese boys studying in the United States: The first students sent by the Chinese government). (Shanghai: Wenhui, 2004. 283 pp. Y 39.50, isbn 7-01-003561-X.) In Chinese.

Perry, Claire, Young America: Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii, 236 pp. $50.00, isbn 0-300-10620-3.) Heavily illustrated.

 

Adams, Judith M., ed., “A Late-Ninteenth-Century Childhood in East Calais: Recollections of Ida Clee Bemis,” Vermont History, 73 (Summer–Fall 2005), 152–59.

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