Interviews

While studying early twentieth-century amateur journalism, Elissa Myers came across articles penned by Ernestine Clark Nesbitt and Consuelo Clark Stewart. Although Myers

In Aaron Michael Hoggle’s article “‘I Have Bestowed a Livery:’ An Enslaved Boy in English Servant’s Dress in Colonial South Carolina”, the

How did Early Republican laws protect some children but left others vulnerable? What children get to be innocent? In her new book,

Dr. Edel Lamb’s newest article, entitled “‘you new worlds may justly make’: Youth, Imagination and World-Building During the English Civil Wars”, dives

How do we know what we know about institutions for children? While institutional and administrative records may be the easiest path, they

Most of us conceive of childhood and maternity as separate, linearly progressive stages of life. First comes childhood, then comes puberty, then

For this year, the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth has awarded their Dissertation Award to Dr. Susanne Quitmann for

For the year of 2025, the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) has awarded the Grace Abbott Prize to

In 2023, Mahshid Mayar published the insightful article “‘Playes Print the Letter’: American Child(hoods) as Archival Present/ce” in the Journal for the

This spring, Jennifer Crane published her new book ‘Gifted Children’ in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945 with Oxford