In Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl, Carol Bodensteiner tells the stories of a happy childhood growing up on a family-owned dairy farm in the m

The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the mig

This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.

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Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.