The ''Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth'' is an international
peer-reviewed
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academic journal 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
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Soc ...
. It is indexed in
Historical Abstracts and
America: History and Life, the two principal historical indexing services.
The journal was founded in 2008 by
Martha Saxton and
Laura L. Lovett
Laura L. Lovett is an American historian, and Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is also the Director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program. From 2008 until 2013 she served as the co-editor-in-chief fo ...
.
The journal is published three times per year by the
Johns Hopkins University Press
The Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and is the oldest continuously running university press in the United States. The press publi ...
.
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
References
External links
Official website''Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth'' at
Project MUSE
The Society for the History of Children and Youth
History journals
Cultural journals
Academic journals established in 2008
Triannual journals
English-language journals
Johns Hopkins University Press academic journals
Demography journals
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