Nothing tugs on American heartstrings more than an image of a suffering child. Anna Mae Duane goes back to the nation's violent beginnings to examine how the id

American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodical

The texts included in this anthology illustrate the wide range of possibilities that abolitionist writings offered to American children during the first half of

This volume presents a complex portrait of the United States of America grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Topics include (but are not limited t