Young Republicans Childhood in the Early National Period

Young Republicans Childhood in the Early National Period

I) Status of Children in the Late 18 th Century Childrearing in Transition authoritarian/evangelical authoritarian/moderate affectionate/genteel n Health childbearing increase in childhood epidemics n

A New “City on a Hill”: Republicanism Republican Ideology n Virtue n Republican Motherhood n Public Education Reform Impulse Horace Mann State Board of Education Standards Normal Schools Mc. Guffey Readers n

Columbia Presents Two Children to the Goddess of Wisdom, 1787

Horace Mann, 1796 -1859

Mc. Guffey’s First Reader, 1841

Mc. Guffey’s Second Reader, 1841

Lesson 10, Mc. Guffey’s Reader

Discovering Childhood: The Rise of Child Nurture --Dwindling family size --Secularization of society --Advice books and magazines Parent’s Magazine, Mother’s Assistant Dwight, The Father’s Book --Health and diet The origins of “modern” childhood

III) Refuges and Reformatories n n n Attitudes about Delinquency Orphanages Workhouses/Almshouses New York House of Refuge, 1825 Immigrants as chief residents Reform Schools

IV) The Peale Museum as Republican Education Charles Wilson Peale n The Peale Museum, Philadelphia, 1786 n Natural History Mastodon Lewis and Clark Artifacts Costumed figures of all races of world n

Ticket to the Peale Museum, Philadelphia

The Artist and His Museum

Recovering the Mastodon Skeleton