New Encyclopedia on Children

Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society
edited by Paula S. Fass
Macmillan Reference USA, c2004
Call Number: HQ767.84 .E53 2004 (Reference)

---

3 volumes on just about anything to do with children in history.

Sample articles include:

Barbie, manners, Head Start, tattoos, teddy bears, Plato, Piaget, child labor, dating, baby farming, bastardy, orphans...you name it, it's in here.

Includes lots of photos of historical paintings of children. In volume 3, pp. 927 - 928, there is a list to primary sources included in the set, including original writings by: Teddy Roosevelt, William Penn, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Plato, and landmark court cases such as Brown vs. Board of Education.