Family life in America, 1620-2000

Family membership in Plymouth Colony / John Demos

White Indians of colonial America / James Axtell

Bible Communists : female socialization and family life in the Oneida community / Marlyn Dalsimer

How the other half lives : children of the rich / Robert Coles

Youth peer groups in the 1920s / Paula Fass

Words and work : three generations in the family of William James / Howard Feinstein

Mandatory retirement in 19th century America / Carole Haber

Things fearful to name : sodomy and buggery in seventeenth-century New England / Robert F. Oaks

The great upsurge of abortion, 1840-1880 / James Mohr

Voluntary motherhood : the beginnings of the birth control movement / Linda Gordon

Women's diseases before 1900 / Edward Shorter.

The world of work in a nineteenth-century mill town / Anthony F.C. Wallace

The world of work for working class daughters, 1900-1930 / Leslie Tentler

Growing up female in a middle class household : the childhood and youth of Jane Addams / Dominick Cavallo

Growing up male in a Black ghetto / Ulf Hannerz

Husbands and fathers, wives and mothers, during slavery / Eugene D. Genovese

Women and their families on the overland trail / Johnny Farragher and Christine Stansell

The runaway child in America / Ken Libertoff

The pressure to provide : class, consumerism, and divorce in urban America, 1880-1920 / Elaine T. May

An immigrant child in Spanish Harlem / Piri Thomas.

Everything in its path : the Buffalo Creek flood and family trauma in Appalachia / Kai T. Erikson

Black families in suburbia / Hugh Wilson

Services families need / Kenneth Keniston

Law and order in a permissive society / Christopher Lasch.