Children and Youth in History

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Title

Children and Youth in History

Project Item Type Metadata

Title

Children and Youth in History

Description

Children and Youth in History addresses the critical absence of children and youth in U.S., European, and world history courses.

Start Date

05/01/2007

End Date

04/31/2010

Proposal Co-Authors

Kelly Schrum
Miriam Forman Brunell

Director(s)

Kelly Schrum
Miriam Forman-Brunell

Manager(s)

Mary A. McMurray

Web Designer(s)

Chris Raymond

Programmers

Jeremy Boggs

Staff Members

Amanda Shuman
Mary A. McMurray
Susan Douglass

Outreach

Kelly Schrum
Miriam Forman-Brunell

Content Experts

Peter Stearns
Paula Fass
Paula Petrik
Merry Wiesner Hanks
Heidi Roupp
Steven Mintz
Claudia Mitchell
Colin Heywood
Sharon Cohen
Ryba Epstein
Nancy Stockdale
Ilana Nash
Nora Jaffary
Janelle Collett
Elizabeth Ten Dyke
Christopher Corley
James Marten
Sue Fernsebner
Jessica Hodgson
Nora E. Jaffary
Ilana Nash
Nancy Stockdale
Joe Austin
Jane Eva Baxter
David Bill
Rebecca Friedman
James Gillham
Donald Haase
Kriste Lindenmeyer
Dana Leibsohn
Joanna Michlic
Lizbeth Halliday Piel
Beryl Rawson
Kerry Roeder
Tom Rushford
Phil Safford
Richard Waller
Tom Ewing
Jeanine Graham
Jesse Hingson
Anne Kinney
Heidi Morrison
Tim Parsons
Lynda Payne
Brian Platt
Stephen Robertson
Colleen Vasconcellos
Shona Kelly Wray
Cynthia Szwajkowski

Deliverables

1. Two hundred annotated primary sources (text, image, audio, and video) focused on the history of children and youth throughout the world, along with an introductory essay, guidance on using sources critically, and tools for organizing and analyzing primary sources.
2. Fifty website reviews written by historians that emphasize valuable resources for studying and teaching the history of childhood and youth in U.S., European, and world history as well as strategies for using those resources and direct links to select documents.
3. Ten thematic teaching packets written by historians that provide historical context, teaching tools, and strategies for teaching with sets of primary sources drawn from the Primary Source Database.
4. Twenty essays written by experienced scholars and teachers that model strategies for teaching the history of childhood and youth with primary sources.

Funder

National Endowment for the Humanities

Funding Amount

$172,717 awarded by the NEH

Partners

University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Technology Used

Omeka

Audiences

U.S., European, and world history students and educators

Files

Children and Youth in History   Home.png
Children and Youth in History- Flyer

Collection

Citation

“Children and Youth in History,” RRCHNM20, accessed March 29, 2024, https://20.rrchnm.org/items/show/205.

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Item Relations

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This Item Partner Item: University of Missouri-Kansas City
This Item Staff Item: Kelly Schrum
This Item Staff Item: Chris Raymond
This Item Staff Item: Jeremy Boggs
This Item Staff Item: Amanda Shuman
This Item Staff Item: Susan Douglass