SHCY mission is to promote the study of the history of children and youth. The organization (1) supports research about childhood, youth cultures, and the experience of young people across diverse times and places; (2) fosters study across disciplinary and methodological boundaries; (3) provides venues for scholars to communicate with one another; and (4) promotes excellence in scholarship. SHCY suggests the  following organizations and websites as good sources of information on the history of children, youth cultures, and the experiences of young people. Please contact lindenme@umbc.edu with additional suggestions.

Useful Links

Professional Organizations and Journals

H-Childhood The Society for the History of Childhood and Youth's Online H-Net network
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~child

Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures

http://crytc.uwinnipeg.ca/home.php

Cotsen Children's Library (Princeton University)
http://ccl.princeton.edu/

Girls Studies Discussion List
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Girls_Studies/
 

History of Children & Youth Group (Canada)

Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
http://www.umass.edu/jhcy/

History of Education Society
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/hes/INDEX.htm

SHCY Newsletter Homepage
http://www.h-net.org/~child/newsletters/index.htm

Resources:

Adoption History Project
http://www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/

Anthropology of Childhood website
http://www.anthropologyofchildhood.usu.edu/

America at School (from American Memory at Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlscho.html

Child Labor in America (lesson plan with list of websites)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/labor/resource.html

Child Labor in the American South (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~arubin/HIST402_SP2007/index.php

Child Labour in Britain
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm

Childhood in American: A Documentary History
http://www.h-net.org/~child/Bremner/Volume_I/

Children in Urban America
http://academic.mu.edu/cuap

Children's Literature, Chiefly from the Nineteenth Century (Britain)
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/kidlit/kidlit/kidlit.html

Children's Picturebook Database (Miami University--Ohio)
http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/index.php

Dakota Memories Oral History Project
http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/history_culture/oral/interviews/project.htm

Do History: Children in History (University of Houston)
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/do_history/young_people/index.cfm

Education World (long list of history websites for children)
http://www.education-world.com/awards/past/topics/history.shtml

Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/

The Homeroom: British Columbia's History of Education Website
http://www.mala.bc.ca/homeroom/

How the Other Half Lives (hypertext version)
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/contents.html

The Magpie Sings the Great Depression
http://newdeal.feri.org/magpie/

Nineteenth Century Schoolbooks Collection (University of Pittsburgh)
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/

OneHistory.Org
http://onehistory.org/

Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in Nineteenth Century America
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/ssb/

Student Voices from WWII and the McCarthy Era
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/oralhistory/index.html

Contemporary Policy and Advocacy:

Children's Bureau (Department of Health and Human Services)
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/

Connect for Kids
http://www.connectforkids.org/

Education Week
http://www.edweek.org/

Miscellaneous
Streetplay.com
http://www.streetplay.com/