1. Studying Families and Children in Historical Perspective -- 2. Marriage, Family, and Kinship in Early America -- 3. Children and Childrearing in a Developing Democracy -- 4. Marriage and Family in Victorian America -- 5. Families in Bondage -- 6. Fathers and Children in the Civil War Era -- 7. Families on the Frontier -- 8. Children and Child-Savers in Progressive-Era America, 1880-1920 -- 9. Families and the State: Origins of the Modern Welfare System in the Early Twentieth Century -- 10. The Homefront: American Families During World War II -- 11. The 1950s: Family Life in Modern America -- 12. The New Immigrant Family, 1965 to the Present -- 13. Family Politics in Late-Twentieth-Century America --14. Families and Children in Contemporary America
1. Studying families and children in historical perspective. Digging up family history, myths, realities, and works-in-progress / John Demos ; Mythology and history in the study of the American family / Stephanie Coontz ; Reflections on the history of children and childhood in the postmodern era / Joseph M. Hawes and N. Ray Hiner -- 2. Marriage, family, and kinship in early America. Three Europeans comment on Native American marriage, gender, and kinship, 1600s-1700s: John Smith describes the "naturall inhabitants of Virginia, ", 1608 ; Roger Williams discusses marriage and divorce among New England Indians, 1643 ; Robert Beverley defends the morality of Virginia's Native Americans, 1705 ; James Mooney records traditional Cherokee myths, 1900 ; Plymouth colony requires all persons to live in families, 1669 ; Puritan minister Cotton Mather describes "a family well-ordered," 1699 ; Slaves escape in search of family members, 1750s-1760s ; Matrilineal kinship among the Cherokee Indians in the American Southeast / Theda Perdue ; Patriarchy and marriage in colonial New England / Lisa Wilson ; Slavery and family life among African Americans in eighteenth-century Maryland / Allan Kulikoff -- 3. Children and childrearing in a developing democracy. Colonial legislatures permit harsh punishment for disobedient children, 1642, 1646, 1654 ; A colonial mother describes the custom of breeching, 1679 ; English philosopher John Locke recommends a rational approach to childrearing, 1693 ; Laura Wirt's parents offer instruction and advice, 1810 ; The reverend Francis Wayland describes discipline, 1831 ; John J.C. Abbott gives advice to mothers, 1834 ; Lucy Larcom remembers the pangs of conscience, 1889 ; Breaking wills in colonial America / Philip Greven ; Developing character in Antebellum America / Anne Scott MacLeod -- 4. Marriage and family in Victorian America. Eliza Southgate expresses her opinion of love matches, 1800 ; Emma Willard gives marital advice, 1915 ; Caroline Gilman recommends wifely submission, 1838 ; Martha Hunter Hitchcock complains of loneliness and illness, 1840-1846 ; Lizzie Neblett describes marriage and motherhood in Texas, 1860 ; Men, women, and marriage in the nineteenth-century North / E. Anthony Rotundo ; Marriage and family in the nineteenth-century South / Anya Jabour -- 5. Families in bondage. Slave husbands and wives correspond, 1840s-1850s ; Frederick Douglass describes separation and sexual abuse, 1845 ; Harriet Jacobs remembers growing up a slave, 1861 ; Fanny Kemble reports on slave women's health, 1863 ; Former slaves recall family life, 1930s ; Marriage in slavery / Brenda Stevenson ; Motherhood in slavery / Stephanie J. Shaw -- 6. Fathers and children in the Civil War era. A Confederate father writes to his daughter, 1861-1864 ; A popular poem mourns a soldier-father's death, 1865 ; Children play at war, 1863 ; A Southern girl records her brothers' eagerness to fight, 1861-1862 ; A Union veteran remembers military drills and farewells, 1909 ; Fatherhood in the Confederacy / James Marten ; Coming of age in the Union army / Reid Mitchell -- 7. Families on the frontier. Harriet Taylor Upton recalls pioneer life, ca. 1870 ; Margaret Bell describes children's work on the Montana frontier, ca. 1910 ; Esperanza Montoya Padilla details her mother's home and community work in the 1920s ; Socorro Felix Delgado describes family and religion in Arizona, ca. 1930 ; The U.S. government makes contradictory proposals for educating Indian children, 1940s: Willard W. Beatty recommends education for leadership, 1942 ; Congress suggests that schools promote assimilation, 1944 ; Children on the Plains frontier / Elliott West ; Women, work, and community in Hispanic New Mexico and Colorado / Sarah Deutsch ; Fatherhood and assimilation among the Southern Utes / Katherine M.B. Osburn -- 8. Children and child-savers in Progressive-era America, 1880-1920. William P. Letchworth visits the New York Catholic Protectory, 1876 ; The Reinhard Committee investigates child labor, 1896 ; Judge Ben Lindsey encounters youthful criminals, 1894 ; Psychologist G. Stanley Hall defines adolescence, 1904 ; Sociologists describe juvenile delinquency among Polish immigrants, 1918 ; Child abuse and child protection in Boston, 1880-1910 / Linda Gordon ; Female sexuality and juvenile delinquency in early twentieth-century California / Mary E. Odem -- 9. Family and the state: origins of the modern welfare system in the early twentieth century. Jewish charitable organizations recommend supporting mothers and children at home, 1910 ; The New York Commission on Relief for Widowed Mothers demands government aid for poor women and children, 1914 ; The U.S. Children's Bureau praises "home life," 1919 ; The White House Conference on Child Health and Protection defines child welfare as a community responsibility, 1930 ; The International Society of Crippled Children issues a "bill of rights" for disabled children, 1931 ; Mothers' pensions in Chicago, 1911-1931 / Joanne L. Goodwin ; The Children's Bureau and child welfare during the Great Depression / Kriste Lindenmeyer -- 10. The homefront: American families during World War II. A Nisei daughter describes family life in a detention camp, 1942 ; A Japanese American student recalls the Relocation Order, 1942 ; A resident of Manzanar Internment Camp looks back on her wartime and postwar experiences, 1940s ; Wartime newlyweds exchange love letters, 1943-1945 ; A woman war worker describes work and famiy life, 1944 ; A child care worker discusses her trials and triumphs, 1944-1946 ; Japanese families and Japanese American daughters in World War II detention camps / Valerie Matsumoto ; Children and families during World War II / William M. Tuttle Jr. -- 11. The 1950s: family life in modern America. Dr. Benjamin Spock offers advice to new parents, 1946 ; Americans describe marriage and family as necessary to happiness, 1960 ; Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan bemoans the breakdown of the black family, 1965 ; Adrienne Rich recalls the cultural promotion of motherhood in Cold War era-America, 1976 ; Marge Piercy describes a woman's response to an unplanned pregnancy before Roe v. Wade, 1982 ; Visions of family life in postwar America / Elaine Tyler May ; Illegitimacy and adoption: black and white teen mothers, 1945-1965 / Rickie Solinger -- 12. The new immigrant family, 1965 to the present. An immigrant daughter describes population control in Puerto Rico in the 1950s ; A Puerto Rican remembers the move to New York City, 1951 ; An elderly Vietnamese man despairs of parent-child relations in the United States, 1989 ; Ba That explains changing power dynamics in the Vietnamese American family, 1989 ; Puerto Rican women and their families in Chicago / Maura I. Toro-Morn ; Vietnamese parents and children in Philadelphia / Nazli Kibria -- 13. Family politics in late-twentieth-century America. The U.S. Supreme Court defines women's right to choose abortion, 1973 ; The National Right to Life Committee opposes abortion, 1974 ; Sociologists make predictions about family life in the next millennium, 1988 ; Robert Bly proposes a cure for modern men's "softness," 1990 ; Judith Stacey relates "the family values fable," 1999 ; Abortion and the politics of motherhood / Kristin Luker ; Patriarchy and the politics of fatherhood / Robert L. Griswold -- 14. Families and children in contemporary America. Two gay men describe their relationship, 1989 ; Kellen Kaiser-Klimist and her two moms discuss marriage and family, 1989, 1991 ; The U.S. census reveals change and continuity in family life, 2000 ; Sociologist Michael Kimmel comments on school shootings, 2000 ; Christian parents turn to home-schooling, 2001 ; A toddler's mother criticizes "toymania," 2003 ; The meaning(s) of marriage in postmodern America / Nancy F. Cott ; Conspicuous toy consumption and modern childhood / Gary Cross
