Children and Youth During the Civil War Era

"A solid collection of essays, organized coherently around a set of important questions, that will be of interest to both students and scholars." (History of Education) "Many of the authors move beyond traditional historical sources to incorporate evidence from literature, visual art, and popular culture...highly recommended." - S. Ferentinos (CHOICE) "Marten's book is a must for anybody interested in Civil War history." - Edmund L. Drago (The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society) "The anthology covers a wide range of subjects under the general rubric of children in the Civil War era. In so doing, it does much to address previous voids." - Wilma King (The North Carolina Historical Review) "This is a suggestive and moving volume...each essay seems rich with meaning." - Lyde Cullen Sizer "Children and Youth during the Civil War Era brings together thirteen excellent essays by both established and emerging scholars of children and the Civil War.Offering both breadth and depth and considering both images of childhood and children¹s own experiences, the essays address slavery, sectionalism, war, emancipation, reconstruction, and memory from multiple vantage points. A selection of documents further enrich this anthology, which represents the burgeoning field of childhood and youth in the Civil War era." - Anya Jabour,author of Topsy-Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children "The essays in this volume provide an engaging look at the history of youth during a pivotal era in our nation's history and should spark fruitful class discussions as well as further historical inquiry and research." (The Journal of American History)

James Marten is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Marquette University. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books including The Children's Civil War and four NYU Press books: Children and War: A Historical Anthology; Children in Colonial America; Children and Youth in a New Nation; and Children and Youth during the Civil War Era.