Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
Encyclopedia
The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth is an international peer-reviewed
academic journal
dealing with the development of childhood and youth cultures and the experience of young people in different times and places.
The journal is open to a wide range of historical methodologies as well as other disciplines with an historical focus. As well as original research articles, it includes essays discussing contemporary issues of childhood and youth in a historical context. Each issue also includes an "object lesson" on an object from the material culture of childhood, contemporary policy pieces, and book reviews. JHCY is the official journal of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. It is indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, the two principal historical indexing services.
The journal was founded in 2008 and is published three times per year by the Johns Hopkins University Press
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Peer review
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academic journal
Academic journal
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dealing with the development of childhood and youth cultures and the experience of young people in different times and places.
The journal is open to a wide range of historical methodologies as well as other disciplines with an historical focus. As well as original research articles, it includes essays discussing contemporary issues of childhood and youth in a historical context. Each issue also includes an "object lesson" on an object from the material culture of childhood, contemporary policy pieces, and book reviews. JHCY is the official journal of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. It is indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, the two principal historical indexing services.
The journal was founded in 2008 and is published three times per year by the Johns Hopkins University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
The Johns Hopkins University Press is the publishing division of the Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running university press in the United States. The Press publishes books, journals, and electronic databases...
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External links
- Official website
- Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth at Project MUSEProject MUSEProject MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...
- The Society for the History of Children and Youth