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Recent Scholarship

Childhood and Youth

 

Chattarji, Subarno, “‘The New Americans’: The Creation of a Typology of Vietnamese-American Identity in Children’s Literature,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (May 2010), 409–28.

Kinley, Kylie, “Growing Up on the Farm: Nebraska Farmer Youth Pages, 1904–1965,” Nebraska History, 90 (Winter 2009), 170–79. Heavily illustrated.

Myers, John E. B., “A Short History of Child Protection in America,” Family Law Quarterly, 42 (Fall 2008), 449–63.

Stepenoff, Bonnie, “Child Savers and St. Louis Newsboys, 1896–1948,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (April 2010), 125–37. Heavily illustrated.

 

Cassidy, Julie Sinn, “Golden Mean: Commercial Culture, Middle-Class Ideals, and the Little Golden Books” (University of Florida, 2008). Order No. DA3360649.

Jordan, Benjamin René, “‘A Modest Manliness’: The Boy Scouts of America and the Making of Modern Masculinity, 1910–1930” (University of California, San Diego, 2009). Order No. DA3355738.

 

Sachs, Dana, The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam. (Boston: Beacon, 2010. xx, 258 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-8070-4241-0.)

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