Childish Things

This late Gothic tapestry reveals how Europeans perceived Romani immigrants. Children were at the very heart of it!

Much to the dismay of historians studying the material culture of early modern childhood, few examples of children’s clothing survive from the

On a hot August evening in 1935, many of the six hundred residents of Inwood, Iowa, watched as nearly twenty little girls

In 1695, Charles Perrault dedicted his collection of fairy tales Tales of Mother Goose to nineteen-year-old Élisabeth-Charlotte d’Orléans, the niece of Louis

In the final years of the Space Age (1957-1975), children in both the Soviet Union and Uruguay shared a beloved toy: the

Reading has been considered a central part of children’s developmental process for a long time now. From selected moral texts aimed at

Located in the shadow of Mont Blanc in southeastern France, the Chalet international des étudiants, International Student Chalet, became the world’s first

A red sash worn by leaders of the Cadets of Temperance, a juvenile activist society of the 1850s.

A dwelling house in Durham, North Carolina, testifies to the lives of enslaved children

Is it possible to identify the oldest surviving toy? Archaeologist Jane Eva Baxter considers some of the candidates.