H-Childhood is an edited network focused on the history of childhood and youth. Subscriptions to H-Childhood are free. The H-Childhood network is co-sponsored by the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) and H-Net.
Bart Ziino's "'They Seem to Understand all about the War': Australian children and the First World War,” has been judged by an independent committee as the best article appearing in the Journal of The History of Childhood and Youth during 2018. You can find it in volume 11, no 2, pages 227-247.
Call for Proposals: Kevin Costner: America’s Teacher
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
SHCY OUTREACH GRANTS 2019-20
http://www.shcy.org/news-announcements/2019-grace-abbott-book-prize-call-for-nominations/
The Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) is pleased to call for nominations for the best book published in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in 2019. The winner will be announced in mid-summer 2020.
I'm looking for some background information on a journal for highschoolers -- Senior Scholastic. I know it was being published in the 1940s and still published in the 1970s. Anyone know of a source for encyclopedia-type info that can be used to situate articles from this publication?
Childhood Studies and Disability Studies: Charting Confluences
This panel seeks to interrogate the intersection between disability studies and critical childhood studies in the long nineteenth century. The emergence of figures of disability in the nineteenth century coincides with new conceptions of childhood. Socially constructed and coded through developmental models, these social formations are intimately related.
Popular Cultural Association: Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
Call for Papers
