Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Youth of a new nation : 1790-1850 -- Schooling the children : 1777-1867 -- Slave young, slave long : 1619-1861 -- National crisis : the Civil War : 1861-1865 -- Age of contrasts : 1860-1905 -- Growing up on the Western frontier : 1840-1918 -- Child saving : 1817-1922 -- Era of the adolescent : 1900-1928 -- Depression alters children's lives : 1929-1943 -- World War II : children on the American home front : 1939-1945 -- Baby-boom generation : 1946-1970 -- Hearts and minds : African-American children face challenges : 1865-1990 -- America inhospitable to children : 1971-2001.
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