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Holly N. S. White, "Constructing American Childhood: Age-Based Laws and the Illusion…

9/3/2026 • 37 min

Edward Blum interviews Holly White on her new book Constructing American Childhood: Age-Based Laws and the Illusion of Protection in the Early United States. As of 2025, in the United States an eleven-year-old child can be charged with a federal crime while in many states it’s illegal to leave a twelve-year-old home alone. Twenty-six states allow children young… Play episode

Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)
Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Ninet…
Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial…
Edward Cutler, "This Beautiful Country: How Italy's Nature Shaped Its Cult…
Eran A. Zelnik, "American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of…
Karin Barber, "Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in…
Raf de Bont et al eds., "Globalizing Wildlife" (UNC Press, 2026)
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan, "Unfree Workers: Insubordinati…
John Davie, "Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our Wo…
Divining the Past: How to Do Conjectural History with Anthony Grafton
Malcolm Murfett, "Eden's Alternative to Appeasement: The Anglo-American St…
Jane Draycott, "Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome"…
Emile Chabal, "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian"…
Beronda L. Montgomery, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and …
Edward E. Andrews, "Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle…
Jeana Jorgensen, "Sex Education 101: Approachable Essays on Folklore, Cult…
Sarah Ellen Zarrow, "Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and M…
Thomas F. Rzeznik, "A Monument of Charity: St. Vincent’s Hospital and Cath…
William Whyte, "The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood" (Harv…
David N. Gellman, "Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family…
Stefan Al, "Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call H…
Yana Skorobogatov, "Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Unio…
Max Perry Mueller, "Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Foun…
Matthew Pinsker, "Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln" (Nor…
Blair L.M. Kelley, "Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Eman…
Emily Sneff, "When the Declaration of Independence Was News" (Oxford UP, 2…
Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sov…
Vaneesa Cook, "Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American Land…
Virginia McGee Richards, "The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resi…
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Parallel Journeys: Eurasian History Through Trav…
Murat C. Yildiz, "The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, a…
Steven K. Green, "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethou…
Anna Lively, "Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923" (O…
Meredith Gamer, "City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Cent…
Ashton Lazarus, "Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japa…
Lily Kelting, "Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods" (UN…
Michael Patrick Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Court Cabine…
Nick Yablon, "From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C. G. Hine's 1905 Pho…
Ian J. McNiven, "Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Ri…
Kelly M. Duke Bryant, "Negotiating Childhood: French Colonialism and Afric…
Brendan Greeley, "The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Power…
Richard Bell, "The American Revolution and the Fate of the World" (Penguin…
Martin Fitzgerald, "The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk about…
Robert G Parkinson, "Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror o…
Jeffrey A. Marx, "Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil W…
Rod Phillips, "Cats: A History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Peter C. Mancall, "Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c.…
Paul Helseth and David P. Smith eds., "New Perspectives on Old Princeton, …

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