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.
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.
Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, November 2012.
Melissa R. Klapper published a new book, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940.
New book released from Chicago Review Press: Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing up in Wartime America
SHCY calls for nominations or submissions of the best doctoral dissertations on the history of children, childhood, or youth. Deadline February 28, 2024.
SHCY Seeks Nominations for the 2023 Fass-Sandin Prize. Deadline: February 28, 2024.
The Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) is pleased to call for nominations for the best book in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in 2023.