Kelly Schrum

Teaching Hidden History: A Hybrid Course Across Institutions

Teaching Hidden History is a hybrid, project-based history course combining in-person meetings conducted on two campuses (George Mason University and Virginia Tech) through 4-VA telepresence rooms. The session will provide a hands-on exploration of the Teaching Hidden History course and will share results from the summer 2015 pilot course. Developed for graduate students in history and social studies education across two Virginia campuses (George Mason University and Virginia Tech), Teaching Hidden History guides students through the creation of online history modules based on collaborative historical research and inquiry-based pedagogy. In addition to research and instructional skills, students learn how digital tools can support teaching and learning history and gain familiarity with the open-source software platform on which the modules are constructed. These principles can be applied to courses in other disciplines.

Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 (review)

portance of sexual crimes against children during the period from 1880 to 1960, Robertson has made a fundamental contribution to the historiography. He has also demonstrated the central and strategic importance of childhood to twentieth century culture. I am hoping that this book will lay to rest the wasteful argument still heard among some historians that only the actual experience of children is worth studying historically. By examining how childhood is defined in law and social theory, acted upon by ordinary people, and expressed in the behavior of children, Robertson has demonstrated that childhood is a profoundly significant issue for historians.

Oh the Bliss

This joke’s presence in a high school yearbook signifies the growing importance of dress in the social world of teenage girls as well as important fashion developments that shaped teen consumer culture in the twentieth century. It demonstrates increased access to fashion as a tool for constructing one’s image as well as consciousness of the power to manipulate social status through appearance. Teenage girls’ emerging group identity and interest in fashion, developments in the fashion world, and the growing interest of manufacturers, advertisers, and retailers in high school girls as consumers nurtured these trends.

Emergence of Teenage Girls

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the lives of young people changed significantly Those in their teenage years received increased attention within the family as the birth rate declined, urban life outpaced rural, industrialization changed the shape and nature of work, public education expanded, and middle-class strategies for success focused on education and nurturing of the young. By the late nineteenth century, reformers, educators, social scientists, and legislators began to conceive of those in their teens as separate from adults and children, young people who deserved limited freedoms yet required special protection. The legal system created separate courts for accused juveniles. State and federal governments began to legislate age requirements for marriage, school attendance, and work, and later for voting, driving, and consuming alcohol. There was little consistency in these legal definitions of maturity and immaturity, and some legislation further divided age boundaries by gender. Girls, for example, could marry at a younger age than boys, but boys could legally consent to sexual intercourse at a younger age than girls could.1