Sunday, January 5, 11:00–1:00 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

162. Poverty Wars: Families and Welfare Policy in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Palmer House, Parlor H

Chair: James D. Watkinson, Library of Virginia

Papers: Family Accountability and Intergenerational Relationships: Age, Gender, and Poor Law Relief in England's Black Country, 1871–1911
Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado at Denver

"The Efforts of Their True Friends": African Americans and Child Welfare in New York, 1890–1930
Robin L. E. Hemenway, University of Minnesota

To Serve the Nation: Juvenile Mothers and State Formation in Uruguay, 1915–30
Christine T. Ehrick, University of Louisville

Comment: Eileen Boris, University of California at Santa Barbara

   

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