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Tagged: children and childhood

Organizing Impulses: Reframing Adventure as Global Knowledge for Young Readers in Precolonial Germany (1841–1862)

“The role of the educator is to rhythmize the soul to [moral] virtue.”1 This conclusion to his 1841 faculty address to the Königliche Realschule zu Berlin captures the spirit of Theodor Dielitz’s educational philosophy....

Report: Kinship, Knowledge, and Migration

Panel Series at the 41st Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Atlanta, GA, October 5–8, 2017

In October 2017, Simone Lässig and Swen Steinberg convened a panel series at the German Studies Association’s annual conference that focused on the roles of family and kinship, including children, in knowledge and migration processes.… Continue reading

Lesson about Thanksgiving Day

Thursday is a big holiday in the United States, where we are located, so this blog will be quiet until next week. Happy Thanksgiving!

[caption id="attachment_6881" align="alignleft" width="656"] Thanksgiving Day lesson, Whittier Primary School, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1899–1900, by Francis Benjamin Johnston, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97507246/.[/caption]

Histories of Knowledge around the Web

Ten links

  1. Teaching Soviet Children the Language of Science and Technology by Laura Todd at The Language of ‘Authoritarian’ Regimes, June 28, 2017
  2. What We Can Learn from Fake News by Paul J. Croce at the History News Network, July 23, 2017
  3. How African American Activists are Influencing Latinos by Aaron Fountain at Black Perspectives, July 25, 2017

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Boys’ Life

Following up on Mischa Honeck’s interesting post, “Innocent Ignorance: Whitewashing an Empire with the Boy Scouts of America,” which includes a link to a 1914 Boy Scout Handbook, we have found a year’s worth...