Huck's Raft

A History of American Childhood

Steven Mintz

  • 2004 R.R. Hawkins Award, Sponsored by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Divion of the Association of American Publishers
  • 2005 Merle Curti Award, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians
  • 2005 Carr P. Collins Award for the Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters

Preface

Prologue

1. Children of the Covenant

2. Red, White, and Black in Colonial America

3. Sons and Daughters of Liberty

4. Inventing the Middle-Class Child

5. Growing Up in Bondage

6. Childhood Battles of the Civil War

7. Laboring Children

8. Save the Child

9. Children under the Magnifying Glass

10. New to the Promised Land

11. Revolt of Modern Youth

12. Coming of Age in the Great Depression

13. Mobilizing Children for World War II

14. In Pursuit of the Perfect Childhood

15. Youthquake

16. Parental Panics and the Reshaping of Childhood

17. The Unfinished Century of the Child

Notes

Index

  • Cover: Huck's Raft