Children and youth during the Civil War era

Children and youth during the Civil War era / edited by James Marten.

"The Civil War is a much plumbed area of scholarship, so much so that at times it seems there is no further work to be done in the field. However, the experience of children and youth during that tumultuous time remains a relatively unexplored facet of the conflict. Children and Youth during th...

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Other Authors: Marten, James Alan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Series:Children and youth in America.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Children and war > United States > History > 19th century.
Children and war > Confederate States of America.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Children
Children and war
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
Kind
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United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Children.
United States
United States > Confederate States of America
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Steven Mintz
  • "Waked up to feel" : defining childhood, debating slavery in antebellum America / Rebecca de Schweinitz
  • "Train up a child in the way he should go" : the image of idealized childhood in the slavery debate, 1850-1870 / Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf
  • "What is a person worth at such a time" : New England college students, sectionalism, and secession / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
  • A "rebel to [his] govt. and to his parents" : the emancipation of Tommy Cave / Thomas F. Curran
  • Thrills for children : the youth's companion, the Civil War, and the commercialization of American youth / Paul Ringel
  • "Good children die happy" : confronting death during the Civil War / Sean Scott
  • Children of the march : Confederate girls and Sherman's Homefront Campaign / Lisa Tendrich Frank
  • Love in battle : the meaning and memory of courtships in the Civil War South / Victoria E. Ott
  • Caught in the crossfire : African American children and the idiological battle for education in Reconstruction / Troy L. Kickler
  • "Free ourselves, but deprived of our children" : freedchildren and their labor after the Civil War / Mary Niall Mitchell
  • Reconstructing social obligation : white orphan asylums in post-emancipation Richmond / Catherine A. Jones
  • Orphans and Indians : Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools and the landscape of post war childhood / Judith Geisberg
  • Preparing the next generation for massive resistance : the children of the Confederacy, 1955-1965 / J. Vincent Lowery.

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