Eyewitness History
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Presenting the essential facts of what it was really like to grow up in America during vastly different times and circumstances in our nation's history, Childhood in America surveys the history of the United States from the point of view of its youngest citizens. This new volume in the Eyewitness History series is enriched with excerpts from primary source documents and fascinating comments made by and about children, with eyewitness accounts from educators, psychologists, parenting experts, and other authorities. Here, students and researchers will discover children's roles in building a new nation, as participants in farm life in the early national period, as pioneers and settlers of the West, and as industrial workers in northeastern cities in the nineteenth century. Childhood in America also explores how several national crises affected American children's lives: the Civil War, the two world wars, and the Great Depression. Additional coverage includes the development of an educational system and the experiences of children of different ethnic groups.