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| Studying Families and Children in Historical Perspective | |
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| Digging Up Family History:Myths, Realities, and Works-in-Progress | |
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| Mythology and History in the Study of the American Family | |
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| Reflections on the History of Children and Childhood in the Postmodern Era | |
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| Marriage, Family, and Kinship in Early America | |
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| Three Europeans Comment on Native American Marriage, Gender, and Kinship, 1600s1700s: | |
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| John Smith Describes the "Naturall Inhabitants of Virginia," 1608; | |
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| 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 | |
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| Plymouth Colony Requires All Persons to Live in Families, 1669 | |
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| Puritan Minister Cotton Mather Describes "a Family Well-Ordered," 1699 | |
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| Slaves Escape in Search of Family Members, 1750s1760s | |
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| Matrilineal Kinship Among the Cherokee Indians in the American Southeast | |
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| Patriarchy and Marriage in Colonial New England | |
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| Slavery and Family Life Among African Americans in Eighteenth-Century Maryland | |
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| Children and Childrearing in a Developing Democracy | |
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| Colonial Legislatures Permit Harsh Punishment for Disobedient Children, 1642, 1646, 1654 | |
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| A Colonial Mother Describes the Custom of Breeching, 1679 | |
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| English Philosopher John Locke Recommends a Rational Approach to Childrearing, 1693 Laura Wirt's Parents | |
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| Offer Instruction and Advice, 1810 | |
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| The Reverend Francis Wayland Describes Discipline, 1831 John J. C. Abbott | |
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| Gives Advice to Mothers, 1834 Lucy Larcom | |
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| Remembers the Pangs of Conscience, 1889 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Philip Greven,Breaking Wills in Colonial America | |
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| Anne Scott MacLeod,Developing Character in Antebellum America | |
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| Marriage and Family in Victorian America | |
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| Eliza Southgate Expresses Her Opinion of Love Matches, 1800 | |
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| Emma Willard Gives Marital Advice, 1815 | |
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| Caroline Gilman Recommends Wifely Submission, 1838 | |
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| Martha Hunter Hitchcock Complains of Loneliness and Illness, 18401846 | |
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| Lizzie Neblett Describes Marriage and Motherhood in Texas, 1860 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Men, Women, and Marriage in the Nineteenth-Century North | |
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| Marriage and Family in the Nineteenth-Century South | |
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| Families in Bondage | |
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| Documents | |
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| Slave Husbands and Wives Correspond, 1840s1850s | |
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| Frederick Douglass Describes Separation and Sexual Abuse, 1845 | |
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| Harriet Jacobs Remembers Growing Up a Slave, 1861 | |
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| Fanny Kemble Reports on Slave Women's Health, 1863 | |
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| Former Slaves Recall Family Life, 1930s | |
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| Essays | |
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| Marriage in Slavery | |
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| Motherhood in Slavery | |
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| Fathers and Children in the Civil War Era | |
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| A Confederate Father Writes to His Daughter, 18611864 | |
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| A Popular Poem Mourns a Soldier-Father's Death, 1865 | |
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| Children Play at War, 1863 | |
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| A Southern Girl Records Her Brothers' Eagerness to Fight, 18611862 | |
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| A Union Veteran Remembers Military Drills and Farewells, 1909 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Fatherhood in the Confederacy | |
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| Coming of Age in the Union Army | |
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| Families on the Frontier | |
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| Harriet Taylor Upton Recalls Pioneer Life, ca. 1870 | |
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| Margaret Bell Describes Children's Work on the Montana Frontier, ca. 1910 | |
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| Esperanza Montoya Padilla Details Her Mother's Home and Community Work in the 1920s | |
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| Socorro Fealix Delgado Describes Family and Religion in Arizona, ca. 193 | |