Children and youth during the Civil War era

Foreword / Steven Mintz

"Waked up to feel" : defining childhood, debating slavery in antebellum America / Rebecca de Schweinitz

"Train up a child in the way he should go" : the image of idealized childhood in the slavery debate, 1850-1870 / Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf

"What is a person worth at such a time" : New England college students, sectionalism, and secession / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

A "rebel to [his] govt. and to his parents" : the emancipation of Tommy Cave / Thomas F. Curran

Thrills for children : the Youth's companion, the Civil War, and the commercialization of American youth / Paul Ringel

"Good children die happy" : confronting death during the Civil War / Sean Scott

Children of the march : Confederate girls and Sherman's Homefront Campaign / Lisa Tendrich Frank

Love in battle : the meaning of courtships in the Civil War and lost cause / Victoria E. Ott

Caught in the crossfire : African American children and the idiological battle for education in Reconstruction / Troy L. Kickler

"Free ourselves, but deprived of our children" : freedchildren and their labor after the Civil War / Mary Niall Mitchell

Reconstructing social obligation : white orphan asylums in post-emancipation Richmond / Catherine A. Jones

Orphans and Indians : Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools and the landscape of post war childhood / Judith Geisberg

Preparing the next generation for massive resistance : the historical pageantry of the children of the Confederacy, 1955-1965 / J. Vincent Lowery.