![]() Both the emerging nature of the field and the genre-challenging creative scholarship of its creators have guaranteed that key historiographical questions and assumptions about periodization are very much open to debate. Located within the larger interdisciplinary arena of childhood studies, as well as alongside complementary subfields of American social history, the history of youth attracts a range of scholars with training in a diversity of disciplines, including (but certainly not limited to) the history of education and the family, folklore, American studies, and children’s literature. Befitting a burgeoning field, historians are currently engaged in all areas of scholarship-compiling anthologies, creating reference works, and crafting both monographs and comprehensive synthetic overviews. The history of childhood and youth is a relatively new field in American history that has grown exponentially in size and sophistication over the past twenty years. ![]()
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