Symposium
Thursday, May 2- Friday, May 3, 2024
Held both in person and live-streamed online, the event brings together fifteen emerging and established scholars whose work draws attention to the voices of nineteenth-century American children and the fact that many are not represented in historical archives. Recent scholarship in the fields of history, literary studies, and childhood studies shows that unearthing these voices sheds light on nuanced and unique perspectives around the social and political concerns of the time.
Bind Your Own Booklet
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Babette Gehnrich, AAS chief conservator, will demonstrate book construction
The Historic Children's Voices project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.