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Huck’s Raft

A History of American Childhood

Steven Mintz

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ISBN 9780674019980

Publication Date: 04/30/2006

464 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

36 halftones

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HISTORY: United States: General

Steven Mintz is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the University of Texas System’s Institute for Transformational Learning.

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2005 Merle Curti Award in Social History, Organization of American Historians

2005 Carr P. Collins Award for Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters

2004 R. R. Hawkins Award, Association of American Publishers

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