Children and youth in a new nation

No Greater Distinction: American Children and the Revolution

Boy soldiers of the American Revolution: the effects of war on society / Caroline Cox

Martha Jefferson and the American Revolution in Virginia / Cynthia A. Kierner

In Franklin's footsteps: news carriers and postboys in the Revolution and early republic / Vincent DiGirolamo

Finding a Place to Belong: Raising Ideal Children

French and American childhoods: St. Louis in the early republic / Martha Saxton

Growing up on the middle ground: bicultural Creeks on the early American frontier / Andrew K. Frank

A child shall lead them: children and new religious groups in the early republic / Todd M. Brenneman

Taking a Flying Leap: Educating Young Republicans

"A few thoughts in vindication of female eloquence": the case for the education of republican women / A. Kristen Foster

"Pictures of the Vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame": the cultural work of early national schoolbooks / Gretchen A. Adams

A Hard World: Child Welfare and Health Reform

Children of the public: poor and orphaned minors in the Southwest borderlands / Nancy Zey

Schooling and child health in antebellum New England / Rebecca R. Noel

Documents

A teenager goes visiting: the diaries of Louisa Jane Trumbull (1835, 1837) / Holly V. Izard and Caroline Fuller Sloat

"Though the means were scanty": excerpts from Joseph T. Buckingham's "Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life" (1852) / Vincent DiGirolamo

A stolen life: excerpts from the "Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself" (1847) / James Marten.