Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood.(Book review)

Journal of Southern History | May 1, 2006| | Copyright

Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. By Steven Mintz. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 445. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-674-01998-9; cloth, $29.50, ISBN 0-674-01508-8.)

Steven Mintz has accomplished the formidable task of writing a history of American childhood from colonial times to the present, one that encompasses the experiences of children from infancy to the age of eighteen, changing adult understandings of childhood, and the diversifying effects of class, gender, and race/ethnicity. He starts with the ...

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