Commentaries

Childhood: History and Critique (CHC) is a series of interviews, commentary, and happenings in historical studies of childhood presented by Dr. Patrick J. Ryan, Kings University College at Western University, Canada.

Listen to this episode of the SHCY podcast.

 

 

In this blog post, Rachel Remmel places her forthcoming article, “The Spaces of the Schoolhouse and the City: Gender and Class in Boston Education, 1830-1832,” in its historical and historiographical contexts.

Malia McAndrew blogs about the larger contexts of American “beauty culture” as they related to her forthcoming article “Japanese American Beauty Pageants and Minstrel Shows: The Performance of Gender and Race by Nisei Youth during World War II.”

In “Ten Years Later,” Jennifer Lucko narrates the winding journey from field research to her forthcoming JHCY article, “‘Here your ambitions are illusions’: Boundaries of Integration and Ethnicity among Ecuadorian Immigrant Teenagers in Madrid.”

Dr. Kriste Lindenmeyer contributed to a video by Vanity Fair on pole-sitting in the 1920s.

Joy Schulz talks about her research for a Spring 2013 article in JHCY, and a forthcoming article on the missionary children in Hawai‘i to appear in Diplomatic History (Oxford University Press).

Adam Golub discusses his course in American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. He teaches AMST 420, “Childhood and Family in American Culture.”

Originally posted in 2013, the author of this commentary, Professor John E. Murray, passed away on March 27, 2018. An obituary and reflection on his academic legacy can be found here.

Observations on the Limits of “Children’s Voices"

Annmarie Valdes, 3rd year PhD Student at Loyola University provides this summary of SHCY's 2013 Conference.

Originally published 20 June 2013, the podcast is no longer available, but the contents are transcribed in this article, and remain an enjoyable read.