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WGST 332-50/HIST 326-50/WGST 691: History of American Childhood: Essay #2

Your Assignment

Read several issues of an early- or mid-twentieth-century popular periodical (published between 1910 and 1970; and not a newspaper), available in Louisville or through UofL databases, containing information/advice to parents, and write an essay (5-7 pages) in which you analyze the periodical’s advice in terms of its time. You must read articles that contain advice/information for parents, not general articles about other things. Your ONLY secondary source reference for the paper is Huck’s Raft and any Panopto lectures that prove useful to you.

A ‘popular’ periodical is one meant for the general public. You may NOT use professional periodicals for this assignment. Possible periodicals include: Parents’ Magazine, Parents’ Magazine and Family Home Guide, Redbook Magazine, Ebony, Saturday Evening Post. Consult the reference librarians (first floor) and the media and microforms librarians (second floor) of Ekstrom for other possibilities. You might also try the Louisville Free Public Library. Parents’ Magazine, Ebony, and Saturday Evening Post can be located in UofL libraries. On your paper in a works cited page, indicate the collection in which the periodical appears and all library information necessary to locate it (this page is not part of the 5-page minimum text).

Finding Early- or Mid-20th Century Popular Periodicals

Parents’ Magazine

  • UofL owns the print only beginning with the year 1926
  • Find it on the 3rd floor of Ekstrom Library, call number xHQ 768 .P3

Ladies Home Journal 

  • Several issues from 1910-1919 are available online via the HathiTrust
  • Ladies Home Journal can be found here--select "Full view" next to the date for the issue you want to read

     

Ebony

  • UofL holds full text online beginning with the year 1945
  • Ebony can be found here--click the green Access Online button, then select an issue to read on the right hand side of the page

     

Saturday Evening Post

  • UofL holds full text online beginning with the year 1931
  • Saturday Evening Post can be found here--click the green Access Online button, then select an issue to read on the right hand side of the page