Description: A thematic overview of how childhood and the family were perceived in the period from 1650 to 1800, covering life cycle, relationships, community, economy, the state, the environment, education, religion and health.
Brief description: James Marten (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee, where he teaches courses on the Civil War and on children's history. He is the author of The Children's Civil War (1998), which was selected as an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice Magazine and chosen for the Jesuit National Book Award in 1999. He is also the editor of Children and War: An Historical Anthology (2002). He serves as director of the Children in Urban America Project, a NEH-funded online archive of documents related to the history of children in Milwaukee. Marten is a founding member and secretary-treasurer of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. In 1999 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at Northeast Normal University in Changchun, People's Republic of China.