124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Rural Youth and the Modern American State

Rural Youth and the Modern American State

AHA Session 16
Society for the History of Children and Youth 1

Thursday, January 7, 2010: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Gregory B (Hyatt)

Chair:

Kriste Ann Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Papers:

"Childish Unconcern for the Future": Rural Feeblemindedness in the Early Twentieth Century
Ryan Lee Cartwright, University of Minnesota

"Builder of Men": Homosociality and the Nationalist Accents of the Civilian Conservation Corps
Holly Allen, Middlebury College

"Building Men and Women to Live": Health, Citizenship, and American Nationalism in the Wartime 4-H
Gabriel N. Rosenberg, Brown University

"Whither Rural Youth?" 4-H at Home and Abroad after World War II
Amrys Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Comment:

Laura L. Lovett, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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