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Contents Foreword xi Robert Coles Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 James Marten Memory and Meaning 11 1 Childhood, Memory, and the American Revolution 15 Elizabeth McKee Williams 2 “After the War I Am Going to Put Myself a Sailor”: Geography, Writing, and Race in the Letters of Free Children of Color in Civil War New Orleans 26 Molly Mitchell 3 Flowers of Evil: Mass Media, Child Psychology, and the Struggle for Russia’s Future during the First World War 38 Aaron J. Cohen 4 Imagining Anzac: Children’s Memories of the Killing Fields of the Great War 50 Bruce C. Scates 5 Rescue and Trauma: Jewish Children and the Kindertransports during the Holocaust 63 Eric J. Sterling 6 Mama, Are We Going to Die? America’s Children Confront the Cuban Missile Crisis 75 Chris O’Brien vii 7 Bereavement in a War Zone: Liberia in the 1990s 87 Cynthia B. Eriksson and Elizabeth A. Rupp Lessons and Literature 99 8 Representations of War and Martial Heroes in English Elementary School Reading and Rituals, 1885–1914 103 Stephen Heathorn 9 The Child in the Flying Machine: Childhood and Aviation in the First World War 116 Guillaume de Syon 10 World Friendship: Children, Parents, and Peace Education in America between the Wars 135 Diana Selig 11 Ghosts and the Machine: Teaching Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican Revolution since 1921 147 Stephen E. Lewis 12 Japanese Children and the Culture of Death, January–August 1945 160 Owen Griffiths 13 The Antifascist Narrative: Memory Lessons in the Schools of the Soviet Occupation Zone, 1945–1949 172 Benita Blessing 14 Humanitarian Sympathy for Children in Times of War and the History of Children’s Rights, 1919–1959 184 Dominique Marshall Actors and Victims 201 15 “These Unfortunate Children”: Sons and Daughters of the Regiment in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France 205 Thomas Cardoza 16 Children and the New Zealand Wars: An Exploration 216 Jeanine Marie Graham viii Contents [3.237.44.242] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 14:28 GMT) 17 Stolen Generations and Vanishing Indians: The Removal of Indigenous Children as a Weapon of War in the United States and Australia, 1870–1940 227 Victoria Haskins and Margaret D. Jacobs 18 “Baptized in Blood”: Children in the Time of the Sandino Rebellion, Nicaragua, 1927–1934 242 Michael J. Schroeder 19 “Too Young for a Uniform”: Children’s War Work on the Iowa Farm Front, 1941–1945 254 Lisa L. Ossian 20 Against Their Will: The Use and Abuse of British Children during the Second World War 266 Penny Elaine Starns and Martin L. Parsons 21 Innocent Victims and Heroic Defenders: Children and the Siege of Leningrad 279 Lisa A. Kirschenbaum Epilogue 291 James Marten Bibliography 295 Contributors 303 Index 309 Contents ix ...