| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

American Childhoods. By Joseph E. Illick. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. xii, 218 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8122-3659-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8122-1807-8.)

American Childhoods is an absorbing course text for undergraduates, an invitation to research for graduate students, and a welcome reference tool for scholars. In seven engaging chapters, Joseph E. Illick provides a brisk and much-needed overview of the rich literature on the history of childhood in America. A generation of scholarship has focused on age as a category of analysis and children as historical subjects, and Illick's forty pages of end-notes are a gold mine of references to this scholarship. Although he omitted a few key historians of the early American period—particularly Holly Brewer, Margaret Connell Szasz, and Stephanie Grauman Wolf—he has amply demonstrated that the history of childhood is "a vital area of research" (p. 165).

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