History of the family

The Midwest Conference for British Studies is proud to announce that its 70th Annual Meeting will be held at Bowling Green State University on October 13-14, 2023.

Call for abstracts for paper proposals for a special issue of History of the Family on Family history in Canada and the United States

Dear H-CivWar Subscribers,

Dear H-CivWar Subscribers,

Today we are finishing our roundtable discussion on the complexities of life for African American families in the Civil War era. Joining me for this discussion are Hilary N. Green (University of Alabama), Kelly D. Mezurek (Walsh University), and Amy Murrell Taylor (University of Kentucky). Each scholar touches on many vital issues that argue analyzing African American families provide us with a more profound and personal way of understanding the war and its aftermath. 

The Hungarian Historical Review's new issue on family and emotions is out, including:

Gabriella Erdélyi: Negotiating Widowhood and Female Agency in Seventeenth-Century Hungary 

Angelika Orgona: Loving Husbands, Caring Fathers, Glorious Ancestors: Male Family Roles in Early Modern Transylvania 

Zsófia Kucserka: Friends or Enemies? Sisterhood in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Novels and Diaries 

Edina Tünde Gál: Impoverished by Cholera: Widows, Widowers, and Orphans after the 1873 Cholera Epidemic in Kolozsvár 

Dear colleagues,

For SHCY 2021 in Galway, I'd like to propose a paper from my current research project on sibling relationships of children & youth in migration (from German, Irish, & French Canadian families to the United States, 1840–1930). I could imagine contributing to a panel on various themes:

1) siblinghood

2) young people's contribution to family networks in global migration 

3) effects of childhood experiences across the later life course

Dear colleagues,

For the June 23–26, 2021 meeting of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth in Galway, I'd like to propose a paper from my current research project on sibling relationships of children & youth in migration (from German, Irish, & French Canadian families to the United States, 1840–1930). I could imagine contributing to a panel on various themes:

1) siblinghood

2) young people's contribution to family networks in global migration 

Erdélyi, Gabriella. “Inheritance and Emotions: Performing the Patriarch in an Aristocratic Stepfamily in Seventeenth-Century Habsburg Hungary.” Journal of Family History (August 2020).
doi: 10.1177/0363199020948101.

Abstract

Rossi, Fiorenzo, and Irene Barbiera. “Differential Nuptiality and Fertility in the Länder of the Austrian Empire (1828–1865).” Journal of Family History (August 2020).
doi: 10.1177/0363199020949605.

Abstract