NEWSLETTER

Society for the History of Children and Youth

From the Editors

This issue of the SHCY Newsletter draws attention to historical aspects of a topic of immense concern today:  Children and War.  In Issue #3 (Winter 2004), Jim Marten published a comprehensive bibliographic essay of recent works on this subject.  Here, our goal is to follow up on Jim’s lead with essays from different perspectives about different wars that introduce SHCY members to the kinds of resources available to scholars who want to learn more about the experiences and perceptions of children during wartime.  The authors look at boy soldiers in the American Revolution, children in Japanese prison camps, post-World War II testimonies from Jewish children, the experience of being a child during the Greek Civil War, the portrayal of the Korean War in recent children’s picture books, and in a review essay, four recent books about children and World War II. 

Society news includes a message from the president, an update on the new journal, and information about the upcoming conference.  As always, you will find our regular columns of news about members, recent publications and dissertations, calls for papers, news from Canada, and the websightings page describing a few sites with primary source material for teaching about children and war.

This issue of our Newsletter does not have a column about teaching the history of children and youth. We think this is unfortunate!  And we hope in future issues to hear from members in their roles as teachers as well as researchers.  To that end, we want to devote the Winter 2008 to pedagogy (Summer 2007 issue :  SWEDEN and the biennial meeting).  We invite your suggestions and proposals for a discussion about the joys and pitfalls of teaching the history of children and youth. 

Enjoy,

The editors for this issue, Colleen and Kathleen

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Issue #9 Contents
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SHCY News

Message from the President, Kriste Lindemeyer

SHCY Conference in Sweden

Update on Planning for the Journal of the History of Children and Youth

JHCY Compiling List of Book Reviewers

Join SHCY - Membership Form

Feature Articles: Children and War

The Children Accuse (Poland, 1946): Between Exclusion from and Inclusion into the Holocaust Canon . . . . Joanna B. Michlic

Boy Soldiers: Lessons from the American Revolution . . . . Caroline Cox

Captive Innocence: Refocusing the Study of Wartime Internment on the
Children . . . .Jennifer Aerts Terry

Di-versions of Childhood during the Greek Civil War (1946-1949): A Research
Project . . . . Vassiliki Vassiloudi & Vassiliki Theodorou

Illustrating the Unspeakable: The Korean War and Children’s Picture Books . . . .Sarah Park

Review Essay

After Words: Reflections on World War II Childhoods . . . . Helen Brown

Websightings: Children and War . . . . Kathleen W. Jones

News from the Field

News from the Field . . . . compiled by Nancy Zey

News from Members
New Member Spotlight
Recent Articles by Members
New Books from Members
Documentary
Websites
Two New Academic Programs
Events
Announcements

Canadian Happenings . . . .Mona Gleason

History of Children and Youth Group at Canadian Historical Association
Neil Sutherland Prize
New Project: Study of Folklore of Children's Play

New Publications . . . . compiled by David Pomfret

Calls for Submissions

H-childhood Request for Syllabi
Children and Migration Conference
European Social Science History-Education and Children
Essay Collection: Visual Representations of Child Death, 18th&19th Centuries
Submissions for The History of the Family; An International Quarterly

Recent Dissertations and Dissertations in Progress . . . . compiled by Colleen Vasconcellos

Contributors' Page

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