References for Kids in America: 500 Years of Change
A Project by Connect for Kids


Ashby, LeRoy. Endangered Children: Dependency, Neglect, and Abuse in American History. New York, NY, Twayne’s History of American Childhood sSeries, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997

Bremner, Robert H., Editor, Children & Youth in America: A Documentary History, Volumes I-III, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1971

Calvert, Karin. Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood, 1600-1900, Boston, MA, Northeastern University Press, 1992

Carp, E. Wayne, Family Matters, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1998

Clement, Priscilla Ferguson, Growing Pains: Children in the Industrial Age, 1850-1890, New York, NY, Twayne's History of American Childhood Series, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997

Cravens, Hamilton. Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America’s Children, Chapel Hill, NC,
University of North Carolina University Press, 1993.

Hawes, Joseph M., Children Between the Wars: American Childhood 1920-1940, New York, NY, Twayne's History of American Childhood Series, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997

Hawes, Joseph M. The Children’s Rights Movement: A History of Advocacy and Protection, New York, NY, Twayne’s History of American Childhood Series, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1991.

Holt, Marilyn Irvin. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska University Press, 1992

Hoose, Phillip. We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History, New York, NY, Melanie Kroupa Books, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001.

Illick, Joseph E., American Childhoods, Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

King, Wilma. Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1995.

Tuttle, William M., Jr. “Daddy’s Gone to War”: The Second World War in the Lives of America’s Children, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Weintraub, Stanley, and Rodelle Weintraub. Dear Young Friend: The Letters of American Presidents to Children. Mechanicsburg, Pa., Stackpole Books, 2000.

White, Andrew D., A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1960. p. 56)