Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850
by
Rodney Hessinger
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn exposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral reformers who aspired to guide youth into respectable stations perceived new dangers in the decades following independence. Battling a range of...