HIST 365, Winter 2004, Week 2
Outline and Key Terms
Historical Childhood: The Case of the United States
1. Histories of Children and Childhood: The Basic Premise
2. History of Childhood and Childhood Studies as Fields of Scholarship
3. A Framework for Thinking About Children and Childhood in U.S. History:
From Production to Pricelessness
4. Example #1: Work
5. Example #2: Child Welfare and the State
Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood (1962)
indentures
Lowell Mill girls
family wage ideal
Horace Mann
Charles Loring Brace
nineteenth-century “child rescue” or “child-saving”
child welfare
parens patriae (“parents of the country”)
the welfare state
mothers’ pensions
birth registration
U.S. Children’s Bureau (established 1912)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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