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Finding Children’s Voices in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
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...
Managing Screen Time
The relationship between American children and television had has many twists and turns. The Spring issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth features an essay by Colin Ackerman, a Research Associate for the Collaborative for Academic, Social...
A Night at the Museum
Loren Lerner, Ph.D., is Professor of Art History at Concordia University. In 2005, she was curator of “Picturing Her: Images of Girlhood / Salut les filles! La jeune fille en images” at the McCord Museum. This exhibition project led to her editorship of...
Irish Childhood Under the Lens
Earlier this year, the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (JCHY) published a special issue on children and childhood in Ireland. The articles originated at a conference entitled “Twenty Years A-Growing: An International Conference on the History of...
