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SHCY 2013 Graduate Student Digest Report
SHCY 2013 Graduate Student Digest Report
Susan Eckelmann, the Graduate Student Representative for SHCY, provides this recap of the executive meeting and ideas for expanding opportunities for graduate students below.
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2013 JHCY Best Article Award: Ishita Pande
2013 JHCY Best Article Award: Ishita Pande

The committee chose Ishita Pande’s “Coming of Age: Law, sex, and Childhood in Late Colonial India,” Gender & History vol. 24, no. 1 (April 2012) to receive the 2013 Best Article award.

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2013 Grace Abbott Best Book Award Winner: Robin Bernstein
2013 Grace Abbott Best Book Award Winner: Robin Bernstein
The committee chose Robin Bernstein’s book Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (New York University Press, 2011) as the Grace Abbott Best Book Award winner.
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Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914
Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914
From SHCY member Simon Sleight (King’s College London)Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914. Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 2013.
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Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness
Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness
Ruby Lal, Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), xviii plus 229 pages. ISBN: 978-1-107-03024-4.
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The Charleston Orphan House
The Charleston Orphan House
From SHCY member John E. Murray: The Charleston Orphan House: Children’s Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives
Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives
Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim PerspectivesCambridge University Press, November 2012.
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Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace
Melissa R. Klapper published a new book, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940.
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Home Front Girl
Home Front Girl
New book released from Chicago Review Press: Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing up in Wartime America
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SHCY Seeks Digital Childhoods Editor
SHCY Seeks Digital Childhoods Editor
SHCY Seeks Digital Childhoods Editor
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