Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

James Marten is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Marquette University. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books including The Children's Civil War and four NYU Press books: Children and War: A Historical Anthology; Children in Colonial America; Children and Youth in a New Nation; and Children and Youth during the Civil War Era.Paula S. Fass is the Margaret Byrne Professor History at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America, Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education, and The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society and (with Mary Ann Mason) Childhood in America (available from NYU Press).

• Part I. Shaping the Future: Institutions and the Law 17 1 Playing Progressively? Race, Reform, and Playful Pedagogies 19 in the Origins of Philadelphia's Starr Garden Recreation Park, 1857-1904 Deborah Valentine 2 Model Schools and Field Days: Colorado Fuel and Iron's 42 Construction of Education and Recreation for Children, 1901-1918 Fawn-Amber Montoya 3 Of Families or Individuals? Southern Child Workers and the 59 Progressive Crusade for Child Labor Regulation, 1899-1920 Gwendoline Alphonso 4 "I Was So Glad to Be in School Here": Religious Organizations 81 and the School on Ellis Island in the Early 1900s Claire B. Gallagher 5 The Trajectory of Benevolence: Progressivism in the 102 Little Colonel Books Sarah E. Clere Part II. Managing Change: Children, Youth, 121 and Families 6 Willful Disobedience: Young People and School Authority 125 in the Nineteenth-Century United States James D. Schmidt 7 The Contested Meanings of Child Marriage in the 145 Turn-of-the-Century United States Nicholas L. Syrett 8 Sex, Abortion, and Prostitution in the Lives of Gilded Age 166 Chicago Girls Mary Linehan 9 Ohio Departures: George as Progressive Youth in Sherwood 187 Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio John James and Tom Ue 10 Fit Body, Fit Mind

"By presenting this scholarship from the burgeoning subfield of childhood and youth studies in such an engaging manner, Marten has made an original and useful contribution to the literature on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." (The Journal of American History) "The two-part book ('Shaping the Future' and 'Managing Change') has some excellent articles, and accompanying documents include a memoir of a Native American boarding school student, high school newspaper articles, and juvenile court documents." (Choice) "The essays that comprise this outstanding collection make an important contribution to scholarly understandings of the Progressive era. They feature an abundance of historical actors engaged in a variety of activities that together paint a picture of the period's complex, inconsistent, and contradictory conflicts over the changing notions of childhood and youth." - Miriam Forman-Brunell,author of Babysitter: An American History