- 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
Huck’s Raft
A History of American Childhood
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ISBN 9780674019980
Publication Date: 04/30/2006
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