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A riveting history of child kidnapping in America, from the first ransom abduction in 1874, vividly retells the stories of some of America's most famous crimes, including the Leopold and Loeb murder trial and the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. Author Paula Fass skillfully illuminates our national obsession with kidnapping and provides new insights into parenting, the media and celebrity, law enforcement, and much more. Photos.

Free Teacher's Guide available for Childhood in America!Childhood in America is a unique compendium of sources on American childhood that has many options for classroom adoptions and can be tailored to individual course needs. Because the subject of childhood is both relatively new on campuses and now widely recognized as vital to a range of specialties, the editors have prepared a Teacher's Guide to assist you in making selections appropriate...

Free Teacher's Guide available for Childhood in America!Childhood in America is a unique compendium of sources on American childhood that has many options for classroom adoptions and can be tailored to individual course needs. Because the subject of childhood is both relatively new on campuses and now widely recognized as vital to a range of specialties, the editors have prepared a Teacher's Guide to assist you in making selections appropriate...

Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.

Paula S. Fass is Professor of the Graduate School and Margaret Byrne Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Michael Grossberg is Sally M. Reahard Professor of History and Professor of Law at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Explores the author own past as the daughter of Holocaust survivors to reflect on the nature of history and memory. Through her parents' experiences and the stories they recounted, this title defines her engagement as a historian and used these skills to understand her parents' lives.

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Paula S. Fass, a pathbreaker in children's history and the history of education, turns her attention in Children of a New World to the impact of globalization on children's lives, both in the United States and on the world stage. Globalization, privatization, the rise of the "work-centered" family, and the triumph of the unregulated marketplace, she argues, are revolutionizing the lives of children today. Fass begins by considering the role of...

In Inheriting the Holocaust, Paula S. Fass explores her own past as the daughter of Holocaust survivors to reflect on the nature of history and memory. Through her parents experiences and the stories they recounted, Fass defined her engagement as a historian and used these skills to better understand her parents lives.