Exploring data from archaeology, letters, contracts, laws, material culture, ancient stories, and religious practices. Introduction The choices...
Children
Working children were subject to very long work hours under harsh and dangerous conditions. Introduction The children...
New research demonstrates that a sculpture is associated with a harrowing episode of anti-Semitic violence in late-1400s...
The state, in the United States and earlier in Britain, has been a formidable creator of orphans....
Tristan and Isolde, by Herbert James Draper, 1901 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Stephen Robertson Professor of History...
Child survivors of Auschwitz are seen in this 1945 photograph. (Creative Commons) The more notorious concentration camps of the 20th century must serve as...
“The act of ripping children away from their parents is nothing new for the United States. Separating...
Image by Ibrahim.ID, Wikimedia Commons Well, that’s an old story and here’s why. By Dr. Margaret M....
Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer, by Kano Eino / Suntory Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons...
Armorial screen Qing dynasty, 1720–1730, Artists from Guangzhou (Canton), Guangdong province, China / Peabody Essex Museum via Wikimedia...
Damen bearbeiten neue Seide, by Meister nach Chang Hsüan / The Yorck Project via Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
Collector Keya Morgan bought this photograph of two slave children, which was accompanied by a document detailing...
Scene from frontispiece to EPB/47966/A: Jane Sharp, The compleat midwife’s companion: or, the art of midwifry improv’d...
The citizens of Toumai bury their dead during the black death. Miniature from manuscript, Belgium, 14th century....
Women protest against child marriage in Albany, New York. AP Photo/Anna Gronewold By Dr. Nicholas Syrett / 12.11.2017...
Photo by John Christian Fjellestad, Flickr, Creative Commons Here are four simple techniques for “self-distancing,” a research-tested way...
By Jennifer Delgado Suárez / 02.24.2017 Psychologist There are children who question everything and are not satisfied with any...