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Historicizing Dystopia: Suburban Fantastic Media and White Millennial Childhood
On the nostalgic and technophobic motives of the recent boom in suburban fantastic media.
by
Angus McFadzean
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 30, 2021
How the Dear America Series Taught Young Girls They Had a Place In History
History classes made it seem like young girls wouldn't ever change the course of the world. These books taught them that they could.
by
Angela Lashbrook
via
Refinery29
on
July 19, 2021
The Enduring Nostalgia of American Girl Dolls
The beloved line of fictional characters taught children about American history and encouraged them to realize their potential.
by
Meilan Solly
via
Smithsonian
on
June 3, 2021
Charlie Brown Tried to Stay Out of Politics
Why did readers search for deeper meaning in the adventures of Snoopy and the gang?
by
Scott Bradfield
via
The New Republic
on
June 2, 2021
Exhibit
Kidding Around
Stories of American children at work and play.
The Great New York City Roller-Skating Boom
In 1980, the whole city seemed to be on skates. I’m not sure why.
by
Nick Paumgarten
via
The New Yorker
on
May 1, 2021
The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism
Mainstream culture denied Black children their humanity—so W. E. B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to assert it.
by
Anna E. Holmes
via
The Atlantic
on
February 12, 2021
This Land Is Your Land
Native minstrelsy and the American summer camp movement.
by
Asa Seresin
via
Cabinet
on
December 15, 2020
Georgia On My Mind
The suburbs of Atlanta, where I grew up in an era still scarred by segregation, have transformed in ways that helped deliver Joe Biden the presidency.
by
Shirley W. Thompson
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 19, 2020
The Origins of an Early School-to-Deportation Pipeline
Appeals to childhood innocence helped enshrine undocumented kids’ access to education. But this has also inadvertently reinforced criminalization.
by
Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez
via
NACLA
on
November 6, 2020
When Kids Ran the World: A Forgotten History of the Junior Republic Movement
When public opinion favored sheltering youth from adult society, the Freeville Republic immersed them in carefully designed models of that society instead.
by
Jennifer S. Light
via
The MIT Press Reader
on
October 9, 2020
The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote
What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.
by
Garrett M. Graff
via
Politico Magazine
on
September 11, 2020
Officer Friendly and the Invention of the “Good Cop”
If your childhood vision of police is all pet rescues and tinfoil badges, Friendly’s “copaganda” did its job.
by
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
August 27, 2020
The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy
Tomboys and the endless privileges accorded to white girls.
by
Lisa Fagin Davis
via
Literary Hub
on
August 11, 2020
The Ancestry Project
Sometimes I learned more Black history in a week at home than I did in a lifetime of Februarys at school.
by
Mariah Stovall
via
The Paris Review
on
June 29, 2020
The Vanishing Monuments of Columbus, Ohio
Last week, the mayor announced that the city’s most prominent statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed “as soon as possible.”
by
Hanif Abdurraqib
via
The New Yorker
on
June 24, 2020
How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever
Stranger danger and the specter of childhood.
by
Paul M. Renfro
via
CrimeReads
on
May 26, 2020
You Are Not Safe in Science; You Are Not Safe in History
“I ask: what’s been left out of the historical record of my South and my nation? What is the danger in not knowing?”
by
Natasha Trethewey
via
Southern Cultures
on
March 21, 2020
Oh Nancy, Nancy!
The mysterious appeal of my first detective.
by
Sam Leith
via
The Spectator
on
February 1, 2020
The Ladder Up
A restless history of Washington Heights.
by
Carina del Valle Schorske
via
VQR
on
December 14, 2019
How Local TV Made “Bad” Movies a Thing
Weekly shows on local TV stations helped make the ironic viewing of bad movies into a national pastime.
by
John B. King
,
Kristin Hunt
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 21, 2019
My Friend Mister Rogers
I first met him 21 years ago, and now our relationship is the subject of a new movie. He’s never been more revered—or more misunderstood.
by
Tom Junod
via
The Atlantic
on
November 12, 2019
The Long History of Parents Complaining About Their Kids’ Homework
“The child is made to study far, far beyond his physical strength.”
by
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
October 4, 2019
The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to "Peanuts"
How Charles Schulz's classic strip shaped the comic medium.
by
Chris Ware
via
The New Yorker
on
September 24, 2019
Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood
A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.
by
Drew Gilpin Faust
via
The Atlantic
on
July 18, 2019
An Eight-Second Film of 1915 New Orleans and the Mystery of Louis Armstrong’s Happiness
How could Armstrong, born indisputably black at the height of Jim Crow and raised poor, be so happy?
by
Gwen Thompkins
via
The New Yorker
on
July 8, 2019
Psychiatry, Racism, and the Birth of ‘Sesame Street’
How a black psychiatrist helped design a groundbreaking television show as a radical therapeutic tool for minority preschoolers.
by
Anne Harrington
via
UnDark
on
May 17, 2019
The Lucky Ones
I told her we were brought over the Rio Grande on a raft. I never called it a smuggling.
by
Adriana Gallardo
via
Guernica
on
February 19, 2019
One Family’s Story of the Great Migration North
Bridgett M. Davis tracks her mother's journey from Nashville to Detroit.
by
Bridgett M. Davis
via
Literary Hub
on
January 30, 2019
Teen ‘Boys Will Be Boys’: A Brief History
The concept of adolescence is a recent invention — and it has been applied unevenly to children from different backgrounds.
by
Ashwini Tambe
via
The Conversation
on
September 27, 2018
Rereading Childhood Books Teaches Adults About Themselves
Whether they delight or disappoint, old books provide touchstones for tracking personal growth.
by
Emma Court
via
The Atlantic
on
July 27, 2018
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