But history, including the history of childhood, is of more than antiquarian interest. With its emphasis on four C’s—change over time, the significance of context, the role of contingency in shaping ...

In the 19th century, it was incredibly dangerous to be a child. As of 1900, about 18 percent, or nearly one in five, American children died before their fifth birthday.The most common causes were ...

So many aspects of childhood feel universal, from school-yard games like hopscotch and hide-and-seek to getting in trouble with rule-obsessed adults. But how did children’s experiences differ ...

“It is a fallacy to think we protect children from the world around them,” Todd Brewster writes in AMERICAN CHILDHOOD: A Photographic History (Scribner, $36).

It is hard to imagine a world without books for children. There have been children’s stories and folk-tales ever since man first learned to speak. “Many of them,” in Thackeray’s words ...

Renewing Childhood’s Promise: The History and Future of Federal Early Care and Education Policy. By Katharine B. Stevens. American Enterprise Institute. November 02, 2015 ...