1. Paula Fass is also the Editor in Chief of the three-volume Encyclopedia- of Children and Childhood in History and Society (New York: Macmillan, 2004). For the most comprehensive collection of original documents on the history of children and youth, see Robert H. Bremner, ed., Children and Youth in America: A Documentary History, 3 vols. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970–74). This collection is being made available online; see Society for the History of Childrren and Youth ( http://www.h-net.org /~child/SHCY/useful_links.htm). For an excellent review of recent scholarship,
2. see Julia Grant, “Children Versus Childhood: Writing Children Into the Historical Record,” History of Education Quarterly 45 (Fall 2005): 468–90.
3. For reviews of the historical scholarship on children and youth that appeared in the 1970s and 1980s, see N. Ray Hiner, “The Child in American Historiography: Accomplishments and Prospects,” The Psychohistory Review vol. 7. (Summer 1978): 13–23;
4. Barbara Finklestein, “Incorporating Children into the History of Education,” Journal of Educational Thought 19 (April 1984): 21–41;
5. Bruce Bellingham, “The History of Childhood Since the ‘Invention of Childhood’: Some Issues of the Eighties,” Journal of Family History 13 (November 1988): 347–58; Peter Petschauer, “The Childrearing Modes in Flux: An Historian’s Reflections,” Journal of Psychohistory (Summer 1989): 3–15;