Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades follo

Topics discussed range from events of historical significance to cultural fads: from the teddy bear to the Barbie doll, from child labor in sweatshops to teenag

Born Catholic. Raised Catholic. Americans across generations have used these phrases to describe their formative days, but the experience of growing up Catholic

This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.

Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile justice system over the past century, the author tells the story of three cycles o