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Table of Contents

  1. Guest Editors’ Introduction
  2. Kathleen Jones, Lydia Murdoch, Tamara Myers
  3. pp. 339-340
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0037
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Object Lesson

  1. Cycles of Mourning and Memory: Quilts by Mother and Daughter in Gee’s Bend, Alabama
  2. Lisa Gail Collins
  3. pp. 345-352
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0039
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Essays

  1. “Closer to God”: Child Death in Historical Perspective
  2. David M. Pomfret
  3. pp. 353-377
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0041
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  1. “The Dead and The Living”: Child Death, the Public Mortuary Movement, and the Spaces of Grief and Selfhood in Victorian London
  2. Lydia Murdoch
  3. pp. 378-402
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0043
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  1. Two Deaths at Whittier State School: The Meanings of Youth Suicide, 1939–1940
  2. Kathleen W. Jones
  3. pp. 403-425
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0045
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  1. Glimpsing Working-Class Childhood through the Laurier Palace Fire of 1927: The Ordinary, the Tragic, and the Historian’s Gaze
  2. Magda Fahrni
  3. pp. 426-450
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0047
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  1. Didactic Sudden Death: Children, Police, and Teaching Citizenship in the Age of Automobility
  2. Tamara Myers
  3. pp. 451-475
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0036
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  1. “Sad death of a child”: Researching the Death of Children in State Care as an Act of Remembrance
  2. Karen George
  3. pp. 476-499
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0038
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  1. Narrating Death, Surviving Life: Memory and Palestinian Mothers Who Lost Their Children in the Second Intifada
  2. Heidi Morrison
  3. pp. 500-520
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0040
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Book Reviews

  1. Audacious Kids: The Classic American Children’s Story by Jerry Griswold, and: Ethics and Children’s Literature ed. by Claudia Mills, and: Learning How to Feel: Children’s Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970 ed. by Ute Frevert, and: The Afterlife of Little Women by Beverly Lyon Clark (review)
  2. Anna Mae Duane
  3. pp. 521-525
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0042
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  1. Cold War Kids: Politics and Childhood in Postwar America, 1945-1960 by Marilyn Irvin Holt, and: The Politics of Childhood in Cold War America by Ann Marie Kordas, and: Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War by Margaret Peacock (review)
  2. Kriste Lindenmeyer
  3. pp. 525-530
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0044
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  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 531-532
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2015.0046
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