The youth of a new nation: 1790-1850.
Schooling the children: 1777-1867.
"Slave young, slave long": 1619-1861.
A national crisis: The Civil War: 1861-1865.
An age of contrasts: 1860-1905.
Growing up on the Western frontier: 1840-1918.
The era of the adolescent: 1900-1928.
The Depression alters children's lives: 1929-1943.
World War II: children on the American home front: 1939-1945.
The baby-boom generation: 1946-1970.
Hearts and minds: African-American children face challenges: 1865-1990.
An America inhospitable to children: 1971-2001.
