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Children of a New World

Society, Culture, and Globalization

By: Paula S. Fass

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Children of a New World

Society, Culture, and Globalization

By: Paula S. Fass

Focusing on the impact of globalization on children's lives, in the United States and on the world stage, this work examines children as both creators of culture and objects of cultural concern in America, evident in the strange contemporary fear of and fascination with child abduction, child murder, and parental kidnapping.

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NYU Press

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0814727573

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Inheriting the Holocaust

A Second-Generation Memoir

By: Paula S. Fass

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Inheriting the Holocaust

A Second-Generation Memoir

By: Paula S. Fass

In Inheriting the Holocaust, Paula S. Fass explores her own past as the daughter of Holocaust survivors to reflect on the nature of history and memory. Through her parents' experiences and the stories they recounted, Fass defined her engagement as a historian and used these skills to better understand her parents' lives. Fass begins her journey through time and relationships when she travels to Poland and locates birth certificates of the murdered siblings she never knew. That journey to recover her family's story provides her with ever more evidence for the perplexing reliability of memory and its winding path toward historical reconstruction. In the end, Fass recovers parts of her family's history only to discover that Poland is rapidly re-imagining the role Jews played in the nation's past.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813546478

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9780813546476

The End of American Childhood

A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child

By: Paula S. Fass

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The End of American Childhood

A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child

By: Paula S. Fass

How American childhood and parenting have changed from the nation's founding to the present The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed Americans' attitudes toward children. But as parents today hover over every detail of their children's lives, are the qualities that once made American childhood special still desired or possible? Placing the experiences of children and parents against the backdrop of social, political, and cultural shifts, Fass challenges Americans to reconnect with the beliefs that set the American understanding of childhood apart from the rest of the world. Fass examines how freer relationships between American children and parents transformed the national culture, altered generational relationships among immigrants, helped create a new science of child development, and promoted a revolution in modern schooling. She looks at the childhoods of icons including Margaret Mead and Ulysses S. Grant—who, as an eleven-year-old, was in charge of his father's fields and explored his rural Ohio countryside. Fass also features less well-known children like ten-year-old Rose Cohen, who worked in the drudgery of nineteenth-century factories. Bringing readers into the present, Fass argues that current American conditions and policies have made adolescence socially irrelevant and altered children's road to maturity, while parental oversight threatens children's competence and initiative. Showing how American parenting has been firmly linked to historical changes, The End of American Childhood considers what implications this might hold for the nation's future.

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Princeton University Press

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0691178208

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Kidnapped

Child Abduction in America

By: Paula S. Fass

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Kidnapped

Child Abduction in America

By: Paula S. Fass

A look at the history of child kidnappings and abductions in the United States, the motives of the perpetrators, the activities of the media, and the results in the law and in public opinions.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195311418

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The Damned and the Beautiful

American Youth in the 1920's

By: Paula S. Fass

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The Damned and the Beautiful

American Youth in the 1920's

By: Paula S. Fass

Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195024923

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Outside In

Minorities and the Transformation of American Education

By: Paula S. Fass

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Minorities and the Transformation of American Education

By: Paula S. Fass

Ever since the massive immigration from Europe of the late 19th century, American society has accommodated people of many cultures, religions, languages, and expectations. The task of integration has increasingly fallen to the schools, where children are taught a common language and a set of democratic values and sent on their ways to become productive members of society. How American schools have set about educating these diverse students, and how these students' needs have altered the face of education, are issues central to the social history of the United States in the 20th century. In her pathbreaking new book Paula S. Fass presents a wide ranging examination of the role of "outsiders" in the creation of modern education. Through a series of in-depth and fascinating case studies, she demonstrates how issues of pluralism have shaped the educational landscape and how various minority groups have been affected by their educational experiences. Fass first looks at how public schools absorbed the children of immigrants in the early years of the century and how those children gradually began to use the schools for their own social purposes. She then turns to the experiences of other groups of Americans whose struggles for educational and social opportunities have defined cultural life over the last fifty years: blacks, whose education became a major concern of the federal government in the 1930s and 1940s; women, who had access to higher education but were denied commensurate job opportunities; and Catholics, who created schools that succeeded both in protecting minority integrity and in providing Catholics with a path to American success. Along the way, she presents a wealth of fascinating and surprising detail. Through an examination of New York City high school yearbooks from the 1930s and 1940s, she shows how a student's ethnic identity determined which activities he or she would engage in and how ethnicity was etched into schooling. And she examines how the New Deal and the army in World War II succeeded in educating large numbers of blacks and making the inequalities in their educational opportunities a critical national concern. A sweeping and highly original history of American education, Outside In helps us to understand how schools have been shaped by their students, how educational issues have merged with wider social concerns, and how outsiders have recreated schooling and culture in the 20th century. By opening up new historical terrain and rejecting a vision of outsiders as merely victims of American educational policy, the book has important implications for contemporary social and educational issues.

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Oxford University Press

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0195361202

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Children of a New World

Society, Culture, and Globalization

By: Paula S. Fass

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Society, Culture, and Globalization

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Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

By: James Marten,Paula S Fass

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Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

By: James Marten,Paula S Fass

In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a “search for order,” as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation’s top priorities should be its children and youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group. Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era explores both nineteenth century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search. Edited by renowned scholar of children’s history James Marten, the collection of eleven essays offers case studies relevant to educational reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for children, among others. Including important primary documents produced by children themselves, the essays in this volume foreground the role that youth played in exerting agency over their own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and control them.

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The End of American Childhood

A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child

By: Paula S. Fass

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A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child

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Princeton University Press

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Inheriting the Holocaust

A Second-Generation Memoir

By: Paula S. Fass

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A Second-Generation Memoir

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Rutgers University Press

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Outside In

Minorities and the Transformation of American Education

By: Paula S. Fass

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Minorities and the Transformation of American Education

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Kidnapped

Child Abduction in America

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Child Abduction in America

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A look at the history of child kidnappings and abductions in the United States, the motives of the perpetrators, the activities of the media, and the results in the law and in public opinions.

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The Damned and the Beautiful

American Youth in the 1920's

By: Paula S. Fass

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American Youth in the 1920's

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Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.

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Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

By: James Marten,Paula S Fass

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Childhood in America

By: Paula S. Fass,Mary Ann Mason

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Childhood in America

By: Paula S. Fass,Mary Ann Mason

Free Teacher's Guide available for Childhood in America! Childhood in America is a unique compendium of sources on American childhood that has many options for classroom adoptions and can be tailored to individual course needs. Because the subject of childhood is both relatively new on campuses and now widely recognized as vital to a range of specialties, the editors have prepared a Teacher's Guide to assist you in making selections appropriate for your courses. Collecting a vast array of selections from past and present- from colonial ministers to Drs. Benjamin Spock and T. Berry Brazelton, from the poems of Anne Bradstreet to the writings of today's young people- Childhood in America brings to light the central issues surrounding American children. Eleven sections on childbirth through adolescence explore a cornucopia of issues, and each section has been carefully selected and introduced by the editors.

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Book's by Paula S Fass

Children of a New World

Children of a New World

Inheriting the Holocaust

Inheriting the Holocaust

The End of American Childhood

The End of American Childhood

Kidnapped

Kidnapped

The Damned and the Beautiful

The Damned and the Beautiful

Outside In

Outside In

Children of a New World

Children of a New World

Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

The End of American Childhood

The End of American Childhood

Inheriting the Holocaust

Inheriting the Holocaust

Outside In

Outside In

Kidnapped

Kidnapped

The Damned and the Beautiful

The Damned and the Beautiful

Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Childhood in America

Childhood in America

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