children

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  5/27/2020
  

  All the History I Learned in my Youth Came from the American Girl Doll Books

  Learning about history can come from unexpected places. The information booklets sold with the author's dolls may have drawn on more historians' expertise than her school textbooks did. 

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• SOURCE: CrimeReads
  5/26/2020
  

  How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever

  by Paul Renfro

  Concerns about the “safety” and “security” of specific children—particularly those who resemble Etan Patz—played a considerable role in New York’s extraordinary late twentieth-century transformation.

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• SOURCE: School Library Journal
  5/20/2020
  

  8 Podcasts About Civics and U.S. History

  School Library Journal recommends history and civics podcasts for kids. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/11/2020
  

  How We Got to Sesame Street

  by Jill Lepore

  The beloved children's program grew from the need to use the overabundance of televisions to fix the dearth of preschools in 1960s America. Jill Lepore assesses how the show has changed along with society.

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• 1/26/20
  

  Modeling Grief: the Death of Children in Historical Perspective

  by Maria E. Doerfler

  As students of the history of emotions have argued, even the deepest and most primal feelings require models for experiencing one's own suffering and for responding appropriately to others’. The relative lack of such models in contemporary American society contrasts sharply with other eras' approach to voicing bereavement.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/12/19
  

  Children in the ancient Middle East were valued and vulnerable — not unlike children today

  by Shawn Flynn and Kristine Garroway

  The choices that societies make concerning the treatment of children can bring about the greatest of debates and prompt significant political action. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  October 4, 2019
  

  The long history of parents complaining about their kids’ homework

  by Rebecca Onion

  If you find yourself stressed, annoyed, and furious about your child’s homework this fall, it might help to know that you are participating in a great American tradition.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/11/19
  

  Uncovering the History of Child Psychiatry: A Conversation with Deborah Blythe Doroshow

  by Kylie Smith

  Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America’s Troubled Children explores the development of Residential Treatment Centers (RTCs) for “emotionally disturbed” children. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/5/19
  

  Not having kids is nothing new. What centuries of history tell us about childlessness today.

  by Rachel Chrastil

  The long history of childlessness can help us to debunk myths, tell our stories and expand the range of our possibilities. 

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• 6/23/19
  

  Why We Need Better Children's History Books

  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Assembling a coherent narrative that inspires students to image a different world is much more complicated than a Wikipedia search. Teachers can only carry out this task if they have access to narrative histories that are decolonized.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/6/19
  

  The myths behind the push to resurrect child labor

  by Oenone Kubie

  Why is there a significant push to resurrect child labor. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/20/19
  

  The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets Is a Cautionary Tale for the Age of ‘Kidfluencers’

  by Shelley Wood

  The pitfalls and payoffs of advertising directly to children have consumed psychologists, pediatricians, marketers and anxious parents for the better part of a century, but the ethics of using children and babies for product endorsement has received much less attention.

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• 4/22/18
  

  Children Are At Risk. Why Aren’t We Doing More?

  by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Kriste Lindenmeyer

  100 years ago Woodrow Wilson launched a federal initiative to improve children’s health and welfare. He called it Children’s Year. It’s time for another.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-31-14
  

  The Wild Children of Yesteryear

  by Jon Grinspan

  Parents back then encouraged kids to get some wildness out of their system, to express the republic’s revolutionary values.

• SOURCE: Salon
  6-22-13
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman: Children are Sexual Creatures

  Jonathan Zimmerman is a professor of education and history at New York University. He is the author of Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory and three other books. In 1985, the founder of modern American sex education gave a controversial speech about erections in fetuses. To Mary Calderone, who had started the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States back in 1964, new evidence about arousal in male fetuses demonstrated once and for all that children were sexual beings.Nonsense, said conservatives. To critics of sex education, childhood was — or should be — a time of sexual innocence. Racy movies, TV shows and magazines made kids prematurely interested in sex. And so did sex education, which robbed them of their natural virtue and replaced it with tawdry thoughts and feelings.I thought of this debate as I read the comments by Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, during the House debate on Monday over a bill that would ban almost all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. According to Burgess, fetuses do not simply experience sexual arousal; they actively arouse themselves.