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xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project began at Columbia University, where I was lucky to work with Elizabeth Blackmar, who has remained the most encouraging, intellectually challenging, and insightful of colleagues over these many years. Rosalind Rosenberg, Alice Kessler-Harris, Eric Foner, and Farah Jasmine Griffin fundamentally shaped this project. Members of the Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective, organized by Farah Griffin, Barbara Savage, Martha Jones, and Mia Bay, met my ideal of a scholarly community and sustained this work. I am most grateful for the support of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University; the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities ; and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia . Working at the Schlesinger was an intellectual delight thanks to the marvelous staff, especially Diane Hamer and Ellen Shea. At the VFH, Robert Vaughan, Hilary Holladay, Paula Marie Seniors, Jerome Handler, and William Freehling, among many others, sustained this work at a crucial juncture. The vibrant community at IASC—including James Davison Hunter, Talbot Brewer, and Murray Milner—encouraged me to consider the interdisciplinary implications of this research. This book was vastly improved by the excellent advice of Barbara Savage and the anonymous reviewer for the University of North Carolina Press, series editors Thadious Davis and Mary Kelley, and my editor Charles Grench. I thank Paul Betz and Lucas Church for their editorial assistance and Julie Bush for her excellent copyediting. While completing this project, I began editing a book on chronological age with Nicholas Syrett. His willingness to discuss the complexities and contradictions of nineteenth-century age qualifications has greatly improved this book, as has the opportunity to read the scholarship of the contributors to that volume , especially the work of Sharon Sundue, Jon Grinspan, James Schmidt, Shane Landrum, William Graebner, Andrew Achenbaum, Timothy Cole, and Rebecca de Schweinitz. At conferences, I received advice and insight from Matthew Gallman , Kathi Kern, Paula Fass, Patrick Ryan, Jesse Ballenger, Stephen Katz, John Gillis, Kristin Hoganson, Allison Sneider, Lisa Tetrault, Elsa xii / Acknowledgments Barkley Brown, Michele Mitchell, Rosemarie Zagarri, Anya Jabour, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Leslie Paris, and Lakisha Michelle Simmons. Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Sally Schwager, Sally Roesch Wagner, Eileen Boris, and Cindy Aron generously commented on various parts of this project. Patricia Sullivan helped immeasurably. Ann Gordon clarified my understanding of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and pointed me to valuable sources. The editors and anonymous readers of the Journal of Women’s History and the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth greatly improved my argument. Becky Thomas, Jane Barnes, and Alec Hickmott provided wonderful editing. Friends and colleagues at Columbia helped frame my ideas, especially Lara Vapnek, Francesca Morgan, Hampton Carey, Eliza Byard, Margaret Garb, Michael Sappol, and Jeffrey Sklansky. I am most grateful to Ann Lane, Paul Halliday, and Charlotte Patterson for opportunities to teach at the University of Virginia, where Denise Walsh, Jennifer Petersen, and Jennifer Rubenstein welcomed me into their writing group. Faculty in the Corcoran Department of History and the Women, Gender, Sexuality Program have encouraged my teaching and research, most especially Farzaneh Milani, Brian Balogh, Alon Confino, John Mason, Brian Owensby, Elizabeth Thompson, and Olivier Zunz, as have graduate students and undergraduates, including Willa Brown, Emily Senefeld, and Bayly Buck. Jeanne Amster, Anthony Rotundo, and Kathleen Dalton long ago inspired me to pursue this course of study. The greatest joy of living in Charlottesville is the sustaining network of great scholars who are also great friends. Grace Hale, Lawrie Balfour, Anna Brickhouse, Bonnie Gordon, and Elizabeth Wittner are all able to talk feminist theory while running fast, uphill, in the rain. Without them and their partners—William Wylie, Chad Dodson, Bruce Holsinger, Manuel Lerdau, and John Pepper—I never would have crossed this finish line. Sophia Rosenfeld and Matthew Affron improved my scholarship and sustained my spirit. Maurie McInnis, Martien Halvorson-Taylor, and Allison Pugh shared citations and good fun in equal measure, for which thanks also go to Dean Johnson, Neal Halvorson-Taylor, and Steve Sellers. My family and I are supported by a wonderful community, including Kevin and Elizabeth O’Halloran, Jeffrey and Janet Legro, John and Barbara Ciambotti, Francesca Fiorani, Deborah Cohn, and Saphira Baker. I am grateful to the friends who have kept in touch over many years, urged me on, and, most important, taught me the value of deep and lasting connections. My thanks go especially to Brigid Doherty, Paolo Morante, Gregory Fukutomi, Phoebe Barnard, Hilary Krane, Kelly Bulkeley, Alisa [3.133.137.34] Project MUSE (2024-04...