{"id":539,"date":"2009-10-12T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:12:07","slug":"magazines-for-children-in-the-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/10\/12\/magazines-for-children-in-the-19th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Magazines for Children in the 19th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-540\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/10\/mascot.gif\" alt=\"child with a magazine\" width=\"242\" height=\"221\" \/>Understanding family life in the 19th century necessitates a look at what was popular with children at the time.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merrycoz.org\/MAGS2.HTM\" target=\"_blank\">This website<\/a>, put together\u00a0by an English\u00a0professor at West Chester\u00a0University,\u00a0lists periodicals for children published in the nineteenth century, each of which includes a chronological list of its important articles and links to a digital copy.\u00a0 The magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merrycoz.org\/MAGS2.HTM#yc\" target=\"_blank\">Youth&#8217;s Companion<\/a> (which has also been digitized <a href=\"http:\/\/youthscompanion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) covers the most extensive range of topics, with many articles imparting a moral lesson.\u00a0 There are some very interesting articles from the war period to be found as well.\u00a0\u00a0 Other publications worth noting for their relevance to the circumstances of the Civil War are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merrycoz.org\/MAGS7.HTM#ssmate\" target=\"_blank\">Student and Schoolmate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merrycoz.org\/MAGS3.HTM#slave\" target=\"_blank\">The Slave&#8217;s Friend<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merrycoz.org\/MAGS4.HTM#lc\" target=\"_blank\">The Little Corporal<\/a>.\u00a0 These primary resources make a great addition to a classroom discussion of the nineteenth century from the perspective of children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding family life in the 19th century necessitates a look at what was popular with children at the time.\u00a0 This website, put together\u00a0by an English\u00a0professor at West Chester\u00a0University,\u00a0lists periodicals for children published in the nineteenth century, each of which includes a chronological list of its important articles and links to a digital copy.\u00a0 The magazine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,156,82,46],"tags":[167,160],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-images","category-lesson-plans","category-lists","tag-education-culture","tag-women-families"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}