The history of childhood depends, to some extent, on understanding the history of home- and family-life, the primary context in which childhood… [more]
In 1958, Dr. John Nietz, an emeritus professor of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, donated 9,000 old textbooks from his personal collection… [more]
This image of games for girls is one of a pair of woodblock prints by the artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858). The companion print (not included) shows games for boys. Woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, can teach us about the children of townsmen… [more]
Information on the ages used historically in western age of consent laws is not readily available. This table has been compiled from a combination of historical and contemporary sources. By 1880, the first date chosen, many western nations had… [more]
The New York Public Library Digital Collections is a vast database of material primarily, but not exclusively, documents 19th- and 20th-century life… [more]
