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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines childhood as “the state or period of being a child” as well as “the early period in the development of something”.[i] While accurate, these definitions miss something crucial to understanding childhood in both the past...

Late last year, the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth published a special issue which took a look at the thorny subject of child death. Kathleen Jones organized a discussion of young people and death at the 2013 conference for the Society for the...