The ''Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth'' is an international
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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dealing with the development of childhood and youth cultures and the experience of young people in different times and places.
The journal is open to a wide range of historical methodologies as well as other disciplines with a historical focus. As well as original research articles, it includes essays discussing contemporary issues of childhood and youth in a historical context. Each issue also includes an "object lesson" on an object from the material culture of childhood, contemporary policy pieces, and book reviews. JHCY is the official journal of the
Society for the History of Children and Youth. It is indexed in
Historical Abstracts
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and
America: History and Life, the two principal historical indexing services.
The journal was founded in 2008 by
Martha Saxton
Martha Saxton is an American professor of history and women's and gender studies at Amherst College who has authored several prominent historical biographies.
Life
She graduated from Columbia University, and University of Chicago.
She taught at ...
and
Laura L. Lovett.
The journal is published three times per year by the
Johns Hopkins University Press
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.
See also
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Childhood studies
Childhood studies or children's studies (CS) is a multidisciplinary field that seeks to understand the experience of childhood, both historically and in the contemporary world. CS views childhood as "a complex social phenomenon" with an emphasis o ...
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Youth
Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood ( maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as being a young adult. You ...
References
External links
Official website''Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth'' at
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The Society for the History of Children and Youth
History journals
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Academic journals established in 2008
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