Historic Children's Voices

Historic Children's Voices Symposium

Thursday, May 2- Friday, May 3, 2024
This American Antiquarian Society symposium will focus on the writings of nineteenth-century children, revealing lively imaginations and inquisitive minds. Held both in person and live-streamed online, the event brings together fifteen emerging and established scholars whose work draws attention to the voices of nineteenth-century American children and the fact that many are not represented in historical archives.

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K-12 Teacher's Institute: Historic Children's Voices, 1799-1899

Monday, August 5- Friday, August 9, 2024
This five-day summer institute for school educators in social studies and language arts includes hands-on workshops using not only AAS’s unparalleled collection of early American books for children, but also its surprising and fascinating collection of children’s own writings from the colonial period through the 19th century.

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