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Larry Price is a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist. His pictures of child miners in Africa are heart wrenching. In the early 20th century, Lewis Hine used similar images of American child workers to advocate for child labor laws. Price’s photographs … Continue reading
Good Public Policy and Summer’s Hidden Dangers
“Water was rough where tuber went missing,” noted a headline in the August 12, 2013 Philadelphia Inquirer. A similar story in the Washington Post read, “In the Potomac’s grip: Why people drown at Great Falls.” Both articles warned that each summer the … Continue reading
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Tagged american history, childhood, drowning, new deal, pools, recreation, youth
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Priceless Melton Barker Short Films
Capturing the voices and images of children from the past can be illusive. Even when the sources do exist, archives and libraries rarely make it easy to identify sources that relate the direct experiences of kids. One exception is The … Continue reading
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Tagged american history, children, Film, history, kids, twentieth century, united states
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