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History of Children and the Culture of Childhood in the 19th Century

Spring Quarter 2009

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• Getting Started
  • distinguish between primary and secondary sources
  • evaluate web sources
• Primary Sources
  • web sites
  • library sites
• Secondary Sources
  • library catalogs (find books, journals, films)
  • library databases (find articles, reviews)
• Statistics & Data Sources
• Bibliography/Works Cited Tools
• Contact the U.S. History Librarian

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Primary Sources - Web Sites

 

Find primers, children's books, conduct literature for children on the web (full text) 

• The Internet Archive (high quality full-text scans, in color when the original includes color images)
• Google Books (readable, full-text black and white scabs)
• 19th Century American Children and What They Read
• 19th Century Schoolbooks
• HEARTH: Home Economics Archive

 

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Find books, periodicals, broadsides, ephemera from the 19th century on the web

• The 19th Century in Print
• An American Time Capsule

 

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Find images of children on the web

• Museum of the City of New York: Byron Company Collection
• Children in 19th Century Art - Stanford Art Exhibit Overview and video discussing children in 19th century art

 

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Find Child Labor resources on the web

• National Child Labor Committee Collection - images (Lewis Hine) and documents
• Harvard University Open Collections site - NCLC images, resources
• Child Labor Education Project - History of Child Labor in the U.S.
• Child Labor in the United States - overview from EH.net (Economic History.net site)

 

 

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Find Resources about Children's Rights on the web

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Conventions on the Rights of the Child

 

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Primary Sources - Library Sites

If you live off campus, you'll need to login to the Off Campus Access service before using some of the sources listed below.

 

• ArtStor - search for images of paintings of children
• Online Archive of California (OAC) Image Search - search "children" and sort by year
• Historical Newspapers
• Online Archive of California (OAC)
• U.S. Congressional Serials Set - search for House and Senate committee reports, documents, maps, and journals (1817-1877). Government Documents are primary sources.
• UCSC How to Find Primary Documents in American History Guide 

 

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Timelines/Chronologies - help place your topic in historical context

• American Educational HistoryTimeline (St. John's University)

 

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Library Catalogs (find books, journals, films)

 

• Cruzcat - items available at UCSC
• Melvyl - items available in the UC libraries
• Worldcat - items available worldwide

 

Background Resources

• Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
• Children's Rights a Reference Handbook
• The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

 

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Some Useful Subject Headings & Keywords

• children in literature
• childhood in literature
• children United States history
• children United States social conditions
• children in art (history)
• child labor United States history
• child rearing United States
• child welfare United States history
• orphans United States history
• adoption United States history
• photography of children history
• orphan trains

 

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Keywords

• placing out
• chapbooks
• children and memoir/diaries/journals

 

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Library Databases - find articles, reviews

 

• America History & Life
• Project Muse
• JSTOR
• MLA
• CSA Illumina (arts & humanities search and/or social sciences search)

 

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Statistics & Data Sources

 

• Statistical Abstracts of the United States
• Historical Statistics of the United States, 1790-1970
• Historical Statistics of Black America
• Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign Born Population of the United States 1850-1990
• Datapedia of the United States, 1790-2005: America Year-by-Year

 

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Works Cited/Bibliography Tools

• Endnote Web
• Zotero
• America History & Life citation formatting tool (select format citation when you email articles to yourself)
• CSA Illumina database citation formatting tool (select format citation when you email citations to yourself)
• UC e-Links citation formatting tool (select copy & paste citation)

 

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Last Updated: 4/09

Kerry Scott