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Klappentext Part of the Major Problems in American History series, this text for courses in family history or history of childhood balances its discussion of marriage and gender relations with coverage on children and childhood. Offering a thorough treatment of race, ethnicity, and class from colonial times to the present, this edition grants sustained attention to Native Americans and Latinos. Relating history to larger political events, the text narrative balances coverage of public policy toward families with coverage of the experiences of family life. 1. Studying Families and Children in Historical Perspective ESSAYS John Demos, Digging Up Family History: Myths, Realities, and Works-in-Progress Stephanie Coontz, Mythology and History in the Study of the American Family Joseph M. Hawes and N. Ray Hiner, Reflections on the History of Children and Childhood in the Postmodern Era 2. Marriage, Family, and Kinship in Early America DOCUMENTS Three Europeans Comment on Native American Marriage, Gender, and Kinship, 1600s-1700s: John Smith Describes the "Naturall Inhabitants of Virginia," 1608; Roger Williams Discusses Marriage and Divorce Among New England Indians, 1643; Robert Beverley Defends the Morality of Virginia's Native Americans, 1705 James Mooney Records Traditional Cherokee Myths, 1900 Plymouth Colony Requires All Persons to Live in Families, 1669 Puritan Minister Cotton Mather Describes "a Family Well-Ordered," 1699 Slaves Escape in Search of Family Members, 1750s-1760s ESSAYS Theda Perdue, Matrilineal Kinship Among the Cherokee Indians in the American Southeast Lisa Wilson, Patriarchy and Marriage in Colonial New England Allan Kulikoff, Slavery and Family Life Among African Americans in Eighteenth-Century Maryland 3. Children and Childrearing in a Developing Democracy DOCUMENTS Colonial Legislatures Permit Harsh Punishment for Disobedient Children, 1642, 1646, 1654 A Colonial Mother Describes the Custom of Breeching, 1679 English Philosopher John Locke Recommends a Rational Approach to Childrearing, 1693 Laura Wirt's Parents Offer Instruction and Advice, 1810 The Reverend Francis Wayland Describes Discipline, 1831 John J. C. Abbott Gives Advice to Mothers, 1834 Lucy Larcom Remembers the Pangs of Conscience, 1889 ESSAYS Philip Greven, Breaking Wills in Colonial America Anne Scott MacLeod, Developing Character in Antebellum America 4. Marriage and Family in Victorian America DOCUMENTS Eliza Southgate Expresses Her Opinion of Love Matches, 1800 Emma Willard Gives Marital Advice, 1815 Caroline Gilman Recommends Wifely Submission, 1838 Martha Hunter Hitchcock Complains of Loneliness and Illness, 1840-1846 Lizzie Neblett Describes Marriage and Motherhood in Texas, 1860 ESSAYS E. Anthony Rotundo, Men, Women, and Marriage in the Nineteenth-Century North Anya Jabour, Marriage and Family in the Nineteenth-Century South 5. Families in Bondage DOCUMENTS Slave Husbands and Wives Correspond, 1840s-1850s Frederick Douglass Describes Separation and Sexual Abuse, 1845 Harriet Jacobs Remembers Growing Up a Slave, 1861 Fanny Kemble Reports on Slave Women's Health, 1863 Former Slaves Recall Family Life, 1930s ESSAYS Brenda Stevenson, Marriage in Slavery Stephanie J. Shaw, Motherhood in Slavery 6. Fathers and Children in the Civil War Era DOCUMENTS A Confederate Father Writes to His Daughter, 1861-1864 A Popular Poem Mourns a Soldier-Father's Death, 1865 Children Play at War, 1863 A Southern Girl Records Her Brothers' Eagerness to Fight, 1861-1862 A Union Veteran Remembers Military Drills and Farewells, 1909 ESSAYS James Marten, Fatherhood in the Confederacy Reid Mitchell, Coming of Age in the Union Army 7. Families on the Frontier DOCUMENTS Harriet Taylor Upton Recalls Pioneer Life, ca. 1870 Margaret Bell Describes Children's Work on the Montana Frontier, ca. 1910 Esperanza Montoya Padilla Details Her Mother's Home and Community Work in the 1920s Socorro Felix Delgado Describes Family and Religion in Arizona, ca. 1...
