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children in history

The Author’s Corner with Hendrik Hartog

Rachel Petroziello   |  August 20, 2024

Hendrik Hartog is Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus at Princeton University. This interview is based on his new book, Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the […]

The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth Garner Masarik

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 27, 2024

Elizabeth Garner Masarik is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, Brockport. This interview is based on her new book, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024). […]

What a Charles Willson Peale painting can teach us about vaccinating our children

John Fea   |  December 4, 2021

Central Michigan University historian Andrew Wehrman has been an indispensable guide in this age of COVID-19. Here is a taste of his recent piece at Age of Revolutions blog: For portrait painters like Charles Willson Peale, ignoring smallpox was part […]