Week One

July 30
Introduction

 

July 31
Giving Childhood a History

No Tutorial

CREATING MODERN CHILDHOOD: 1870-1945

Week Two

August 6
Context: The Making of Modern America: 1880-1945
 
August 7
Concepts of Childhood: Innocence, development, and age

Tutorial: Historians and Childhood

Week Three

August 13
The Invention of Adoelscence
 
August 14
Child-rearing and the new experts

Tutorial: The Leopold & Loeb Case

Week Four

August 20
New Attitudes Toward Children: Sentiment and Humanitarianism
 
August 21
Child Labour

Tutorial: Mothers and Child-Rearing Advice

Week Five

August 27
Schooling

August 28

Problem Children: The Creation of the Juvenile Court

Tutorial: Photographing Child Labour

Week Six

September 3
Play & Leisure
 
September 4
Adolescents and Sex Play

Tutorial: Schooling & Americanization

Week Seven

September 10
MOVIE: Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel
 
September 11
MOVIE: Finish Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel
Children as symbols

Tutorial: Children and the Movies

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CHILDHOOD?: 1945 TO THE PRESENT

Week Eight

September 17
Context: Post-war America
 
September 18:
DOCUMENTARY: Forever Barbie

Tutorial: Shirley Temple

Week Nine

September 24
Dr. Spock and Permissive Child-Rearing
 
September 25
 Teenagers

Tutorial: Barbie

Week Ten

October 8
Juvenile delinquency

October 9

Schooling, Cold War Politics and Mass Culture

Tutorial: Adolescents and the Body

Week Eleven

October 15
Race, Schooling and Civil Rights

October 16

From Child Labour to Child Work

Tutorial: Watching TV

Week Twelve

October 22
Children having children

October 23

Student Radicalism
 

Tutorial: Growing Up Black

Week Thirteen

October 29
Children's rights

October 30

The Disappearance of Childhood

Tutorial: Why do they do it? Race, Sex and Teenage Pregnancy