Foreword

Robert Coles

Acknowledgments

Introduction

James Marten

Memory and Meaning

Childhood, Memory, and the American Revolution

Elizabeth McKee Williams

``After the War I Am Going to Put Myself a Sailor'': Geography, Writing, and Race in the Letters of Free Children of Color in Civil War New Orleans

Molly Mitchell

Flowers of Evil: Mass Media, Child Psychology, and the Struggle for Russia's Future during the First World War

Aaron J. Cohen

Imagining Anzac: Children's Memories of the Killing Fields of the Great War

Bruce C. Scates

Rescue and Trauma: Jewish Children and the Kindertransports during the Holocaust

Eric J. Sterling

Mama, Are We Going to Die? America's Children Confront the Cuban Missile Crisis

Chris O'Brien

Bereavement in a War Zone: Liberia in the 1990s

Cynthia B. Eriksson

Elizabeth A. Rupp

Lessons and Literature

Representations of War and Martial Heroes in English Elementary School Reading and Rituals, 1885-1914

Stephen Heathorn

The Child in the Flying Machine: Childhood and Aviation in the First World War

Guillaume de Syon

World Friendship: Children, Parents, and Peace Education in America between the Wars

Diana Selig

Ghosts and the Machine: Teaching Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican Revolution since 1921

Stephen E. Lewis

Japanese Children and the Culture of Death, January-August 1945

Owen Griffiths

The Antifascist Narrative: Memory Lessons in the Schools of the Soviet Occupation Zone, 1945-1949

Benita Blessing

Humanitarian Sympathy for Children in Times of War and the History of Children's Rights, 1919-1959

Dominique Marshall

Actors and Victims

``These Unfortunate Children'': Sons and Daughters of the Regiment in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France

Thomas Cardoza

Children and the New Zealand Wars: An Exploration

Jeanine Marie Graham

Stolen Generations and Vanishing Indians: The Removal of Indigenous Children as a Weapon of War in the United States and Australia, 1870-1940

Victoria Haskins

Margaret D. Jacobs

``Baptized in Blood'': Children in the Time of the Sandino Rebellion, Nicaragua, 1927-1934

Michael J. Schroeder

``Too Young for a Uniform'': Children's War Work on the Iowa Farm Front, 1941-1945

Lisa G. Ossian

Against Their Will: The Use and Abuse of British Children during the Second World War

Penny Elaine Starns

Martin L. Parsons

Innocent Victims and Heroic Defenders: Children and the Siege of Leningrad

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

Epilogue

James Marten

Bibliography

Contributors

Index