Classroom Wars and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

By Natalia Petrzela 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Race and Ethnicity

The schoolhouse has long been a crucible in the construction and contestation of “family values.”

Radical Relations: An Interview with Daniel W. Rivers

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ

The first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States.

Heterosexuality and Americanization: "Social Education" for Immigrant Youth in the 1920s

By Erica Ryan Childhood and Youth

An “American Style” marriage, reformers believed, was one solution to the problem of unassimilated immigrants.

Rethinking Bussing in the 1970s: The Sexual Politics of School Integration in the United States

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Race and Ethnicity

In the United States, racial divisions have long been sexualized.

Stranger Danger and the Sexual Revolution

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence

The sexual content of stranger danger films grew more sexually explicit over time.

"Stranger Danger”: the Public Service film and the protection of Child Sexuality

By Jen Baker Childhood and Youth

A number of public service films produced after the Second World War warned children in particular about “Stranger Danger”.

Shirley Temple: The Unwitting Coquette

By Jen Baker Childhood and Youth

Hers is a childhood constructed out of our nostalgic desires.