Transcript Young Republicans: Childhood in the Early Republic

Young Republicans
Childhood in the Early National Period
I) Status of Children in the Late 18th Century
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Childrearing in Transition
authoritarian/evangelical
authoritarian/moderate
affectionate/genteel
Health
childbearing
increase in childhood epidemics
A New “City on a Hill”: Republicanism
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Republican Ideology
Virtue
Republican Motherhood
Public Education
Reform Impulse
Horace Mann
State Board of Education
Standards
Normal Schools
McGuffey Readers
Columbia Presents Two Children
to the Goddess of Wisdom, 1787
Horace Mann, 1796-1859
McGuffey’s First Reader, 1841
McGuffey’s Second Reader, 1841
Lesson 10, McGuffey’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
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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
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Charles Wilson Peale
The Peale Museum, Philadelphia, 1786
Natural History
Mastodon
Lewis and Clark Artifacts
Costumed figures of all races of world
Ticket to the Peale Museum, Philadelphia
The Artist and His Museum
Recovering the Mastodon Skeleton