Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Part I. Shaping the Future: Institutions and the Law 17
1 Playing Progressively? Race, Reform, and Playful Pedagogies 19
in the Origins of Philadelphia’s Starr Garden Recreation Park,
1857–1904
Deborah Valentine
2 Model Schools and Field Days: Colorado Fuel and Iron’s 42
Construction of Education and Recreation for Children,
1901–1918
Fawn-Amber Montoya
3 Of Families or Individuals? Southern Child Workers and the 59
Progressive Crusade for Child Labor Regulation, 1899–1920
Gwendoline Alphonso
4 “I Was So Glad to Be in School Here”: Religious Organizations 81
and the School on Ellis Island in the Early 1900s
Claire B. Gallagher
5 The Trajectory of Benevolence: Progressivism in the 102
Little Colonel Books
Sarah E. Clere
Part II. Managing Change: Children, Youth, 121
and Families
6 Willful Disobedience: Young People and School Authority 125
in the Nineteenth-Century United States
James D. Schmidt
7 The Contested Meanings of Child Marriage in the 145
Turn-of-the-Century United States
Nicholas L. Syrett
8 Sex, Abortion, and Prostitution in the Lives of Gilded Age 166
Chicago Girls
Mary Linehan
9 Ohio Departures: George as Progressive Youth in Sherwood 187
Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio
John James and Tom Ue
10 Fit Body, Fit Mind