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Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and
Progressive Era
James Marten
Marquette University, [email protected]
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Marten, James, "Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era" (2014). Books by Marquette University Faculty. Book
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Children and Youth during
the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Edited by James Marten
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
CONTENTS
vii
Foreword
Paula S. Fass
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
James Marten
1
PART I. SHAPING THE FUTURE: INSTITUTIONS AND THE LAW
17
1 Playing Progressively? Race, Reform, and Playful Pedagogies
in the Origins of Philadelphia's Starr Garden Recreation Park,
1857- 1904
Deborah Valentine
19
2 Model Schools and Field Days: Colorado Fuel and Iron's
Construction of Education and Recreation for Children,
1901-1918
Fawn-Amber Montoya
42
3 Of Families or Individuals? Southern Child Workers and the
Progressive Crusade for Child Labor Regulation, 1899-1920
Gwendoline Alphonso
59
4 «I Was So Glad to Be in School Here": ReligiOUS Organizations
81
and the School on Ellis Island in the Early 1900S
Claire B. Gallagher
5 The Trajectory of Benevolence: Progressivism in the
Little Colonel Books
Sarah E. Clere
102
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CONTENTS
PART II. MANAGING CHANGE: CHILDREN, YOUTH,
121
AND FAMILIES
6 Willful Disobedience: Young People and School Authority
in the Nineteenth-Century United States
James D. Schmidt
12 5
7 The Contested Meanings of Child Marriage in the
Turn-of-the-Century United States
Nicholas L. Syrett
145
8 Sex, Abortion, and Prostitution in the Lives of Gilded Age
Chicago Girls
Mary Linehan
166
9 Ohio Departures: George as Progressive Youth in Sherwood
Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
John James and Tom Ue
187
10 Fit Body, Fit Mind: Scandinavian Youth and the Value of
Work, Education, and Physical Fitness in Progressive-Era
208
CJ1icago
Erika K. Jackson
11 Duty and Destiny: A Progressive Reformer's Coming of Age
23 0
in the Gilded Age
AnyaJabour
Documents: Thinking with Their Heads
253
Questions for Consideration
282
References
283
About the Contributors
289
Index
293