Interviews

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

In “Playing with Fire: Baby Firebugs in Gilded Age America,” Prof. Wendy Gamber traces child arsonists in the late nineteenth century to

Patrick J. Ryan’s article “Eugenic Continuities: Youth, Sex, Disability, and the Rise of Liberal Eugenics in the Late Twentieth Century” was published

Alfredo Luis Escudero’s article The New Age of Andeans (Hispanic American Historical Review 103:1) won the 2023 SHCY Fass-Sandin Article prize. The fascinating piece

Chiara Candaele won the SHCY Dissertation Prize for her PhD thesis, Exceptional Childhood: Legitimising Transnational Adoption in Postcolonial Belgium, completed at the University

An interview with the new editors of the JHCY