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The Racialization of Children on American Advertising Trade Cards
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The Racialization of Children on American Advertising Trade Cards

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Upon the Altar of Work

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The Maternalists

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Religion, Law, and the Medical Neglect of Children

John E. Murray on Mary Grainger and the Charleston Orphan House
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John E. Murray on Mary Grainger and the Charleston Orphan House

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Against Agency

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Schooling and State Formation in Early Modern Sweden

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Girls to the Rescue

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Sesame Street: A Transnational History

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Verbs of Violence: 19th-Century Jigsaw Puzzles, Otherness, and American Childhood

SHCY 2019 Conference Plenary: 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
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SHCY 2019 Conference Plenary: 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)

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