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Family

Dunn, Victor S., “Identifying Parents Indirectly: Robert Dunn of Frederick County, Virginia,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 94 (Sept. 2006), 165–76.

Emeka, Amon S., “Birth, Fortune, and Discrepant Fertility in Twentieth-Century America,” Social Science History, 30 (Fall 2006), 327–57.

Finley, Carmen J., “A Son Proved… an Ancestor Disproved: Thomas Caldwell of Lunenburg County, Virginia,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 94 (June 2006), 101–12.

Hinchliff, Helen, “Job Davidson, Cooper in Baltimore, Maryland, and His Long Lost Descendants in Ohio and Indiana: Using Occupation and Birthplace as Census Finding Aids,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 94 (June 2006), 85–100.

Kwas, Mary L., “Simon T. Sanders and the Meredith Clan: The Case for Kinship Studies,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Autumn 2006), 250–73.

Leahy, Christopher, “Torn between Family and Politics: John Tyler’s Struggle for Balance,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 114 (no. 3, 2006), 322–55.

Martin, Molly A., “Family Structure and Income Inequality in Families with Children, 1976 to 2000,” Demography, 43 (Aug. 2006), 421–45.

Miller, Julie Potter, “The Three Wives of Philip Hart of Goffstown, New Hampshire,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 94 (Sept. 2006), 177–82.

Shoptaugh, Terry L., “Missing in Action: A Family’s Experience during World War II,” North Dakota History, 72 (nos. 3–4 2005), 25–37. Heavily illustrated.

Sullivan, Kathleen S., “Marriage and Federal Police Power,” Studies in American Political Development, 20 (April 2006), 45–56.

 

Horowitz-Behrend, Dona W., “A Room of My Own: The Child Centered Home, 1900–1960” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3197686.

Lopez, Alberto Brandt, “Divorce and Annulment in San Mateo County, California, 1950–1957” (Stanford University, 2006). Order No. DA3197471.

Morris, Mary Michelle Jarrett, “Under Household Government: Sex and Family in Massachusetts, 1660–1700” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3194438.

 

Beatty, Barbara, Emily D. Cahan, and Julia Grant, eds., When Science Encounters the Child: Education, Parenting, and Child Welfare in 20th-Century America. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2006. xii, 248 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 0-8077-4691-6.)

Werner, Emmy E., In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution. (Westport: Praeger, 2006. xviii, 190 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-275-99306-X.)

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