Books

This week's featured book is a volume of essays, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s), co-edited by Rita Bode and Jean Mitchell. Listen to their discussion on the SHCY podcast, here.

Anna Mae Duane on Child Slavery before and after Emancipation: An Argument for Child Centred Slavery Studies. Listen to her SHCY podcast episode, originally from the C19 podcast, here.

This week's featured book is Ages of Anxiety: Historical and Transnational Perspectives on Juvenile Justice, edited by Bill Bush and David Tanenhaus. You can listen to their interview, conducted by Tamara Myers, here. You can also watch their video interview, here or by navigating to this post.

This week we explore Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Cultural History of Middle-Class Childhood and Gender by Mary Hatfield. Listen to this episode of the SHCY podcast's ninth season, here.

This week's featured monograph is Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics by Lara Saguisag. Listen to the first episode of our latest podcast season, here.

Revisit Andrew R. Ruis discussion food culture in American school food programs Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States. Listen to his interview here.

The week we revisit a February 2019 episode on Slavery, Abolition, and Childhood in Jamaica, 1788-1838 by Colleen Vasconcellos. Listen to her interview on the SHCY podcast, here.

This week we revisit the ninth featured book in our series, From Superman to Social Realism: Children's Media and Scandinavian Childhood by Helle Strandgaard Jensen. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Jensen's interview with her colleague, Sophie Heywood.

Read about The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development by Bonnie Evans. Also listen here for the author's interview about her monograph with Ayesha Nathoo.

This week we revisit Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest by Megan Birk. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Birk's interview which is conducted by Jennifer Robin Terry, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

The eighth featured book is The Best Possible Immigrants: International Adoption by Rachel Rains Winslow. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Winslow's interview with her colleague, Heather Keaney.

This week, we revisit Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination: From Patriots to Victims by David M. Rosen. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Rosen's interview with his colleague, Robert Houle.

Read about Lindsey Dodd's monograph, French Children Under the Allied Bombs, 1940-1945: An Oral History. You can also listen to her interview, conducted by Joe Hopkinson, a PhD student at the University of Huddersfield, here. 

This week we explore Jane Nicholas's monograph, Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s. To learn more and listen to her interview with Renee Bondy, click here.

This week we have a review of American Tomboys, 1850-1915 by Renée Sentilles. Also take a listen to our latest podcast episode with Renée, here.

The fourth in the Featured Books series is Heidi Morrisons's Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Morrison's interview with Nancy Gallagher, professor emeritus from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

This week we discuss Sick Kids: The History of the Hospital for Sick Children, a monograph by David Wright. Included is  a new SHCY podcast episode, which you can listen to, here.

This week we revisit The Government of Childhood: Discourse, Power and Subjectivity by Karen M. Smith. In addition to the featured post, you can listen to Dr. Smith speak with Patrick J. Ryan about her monograph, here. 

This week's feature is Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea by Dafna Zur. You can also listen to this week's episode of the SHCY podcast, here.

This week we revisit American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States by Nicholas L. Syrett. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Syrett's interview with his colleague at the University of Kansas, Stacey Vanderhurst.