Janet Golden
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View article: Lessons Ignored: Children and Pandemics
Lessons Ignored: Children and Pandemics Open
Children became sick and died during pandemics roughly 100 years apart, but they are rarely the central focus of historical scholarship. Because children were not the largest group of victims in the 1918 pandemic or in the COVID-19 pandemi…
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Perfect Motherhood has had a long gestation.During this extended period, I have been supported and encouraged by many friends and colleagues who joined me in my excitement about the history of motherhood in the United States and who often …
View article: A Compelling History of Miscarriage in America
A Compelling History of Miscarriage in America Open
A Compelling History of Miscarriage in America Janet Golden PhD Affiliation Janet Golden is with the History Department, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Janet Golden, PhD, Rutgers, the State Univers…
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social welfare, medicine, and public health.
View article: First report the findings: genuine balance when reporting CTE
First report the findings: genuine balance when reporting CTE Open
View article: “Save 100,000 Babies”: The 1918 Children’s Year and Its Legacy
“Save 100,000 Babies”: The 1918 Children’s Year and Its Legacy Open
In April 1918, President Woodrow Wilson, alarmed at the high draftee rejection rate, proclaimed the second year of American engagement in World War I as “Children’s Year.” The motto of the nationwide program was to “Save 100,000 Babies.” C…
View article: Babies Made Us Modern
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Placing babies' lives at the center of her narrative, historian Janet Golden analyzes the dramatic transformations in the lives of American babies during the twentieth century. She examines how babies shaped American society and culture an…