Youth/Childhood

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The Beatles, upon their arrival at Kennedy International Airport in New York City on February 7,1964.
“I Want to Hold Your Hand”
National Guard Soldiers wearing gas masks and holding rifles
The Kent State Massacre
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky
Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students
Native woman with her back to the camera
Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller
Kent State after Fifty Years
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.
“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism
school girls in class - Studying biology and physics from English textbooks presents challenges in understanding the material but is necessary because their state examinations will be in English.
A Postcard from Pakistan: Girls Education in Gilgit-Baltistan
Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children
Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse
More than just peace and love, 1968 was a global clash against political and business establishments.
Time It Was: 1968 Around the World
Free speech march at Ohio State University in the mid-20th century
Politics and Protest on College Campuses
1960s hippies dancing at a festival.
The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love
June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)
Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong
180-degree view of Tiananmen Square in 2004 (Photo by Saad Akhtar)
Commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865 Book Cover
Play, Paranoia, and American Childhood in the Great Outdoors
alienation in the society
3/28/14: On Alienation and Consumption, Then & Now
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore Book Cover.
The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony
Children at Play: An American History, by Howard Chudacoff Book Cover
Children at Play: An American History
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover
Playing Politics with Our Children's Health
Children eating a meal as part of the School Lunch program at a classroom in Maryland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary Dr. Janey Thornton is present for an event to launch International School Meals Day on March 8, 2013. The class is video conferencing to a school in Ayrshire, Scotland, with some of their children visible on the screens.
Today’s School Feeding Programs Grew Out of the “Penny Lunch” Tradition of a Century Ago
A young man stays connected on his cell phone as he strolls by a store advertising the Beatles' music on Apple's online store.
Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore
Jaycee Dugard was found in August, 2009 18 years after her abduction. While most child abductions by strangers do not end so well, historian Paula Fass points out that stranger abductions comprise only a small percentage of child kidnapping cases even though they receive the lion's share of media attention. Fear over stranger abductions has grown in the United States since the 19th century, and often results more from general fears about society than the actual safety of individual children.
Child Kidnapping in America
First Lady Michelle Obama reading a Dr. Seuss book to children at the White House.
Celebrating the “Seussentennial”
Vigil commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1989 massacre
New Protests in China Won’t Be the Last
Portrait of Jane Addams
Million Moms March in Noble Company