Steven Mintz

Biographic Data

ID3736381
NAMESteven Mintz
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMEMintz
SIGNATUREMINTZ S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Houston
ORCID0000-0002-8969-5448
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS53
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT51
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Sandra Fox. The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America

    Open AccessSteven MintzARTICLEThe American Historical Review2024

  • Children’s History Matters

    Open AccessSteven MintzARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020Cited by: 2

    In a complement to the 2020 AHR Roundtable “Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” (125, no. 2), this AHR Exchange focuses on the history of children and childhood. Sarah Maza presents a critical review essay, highlighting the limiting factors in the expanding field of childhood studies. Children, she observes, produce few sources of their own voices, have limited agency, and as individuals and as a group soon outgrow their …

  • Growing Up in a Land Called Honalee: The Sixties in the Lives of American Children

    Steven MintzARTICLEJournal of American History2018Cited by: 1

    This insightful book rewrites the history of the 1960s from the bottom up, focusing on the true children of the sixties—preadolescents—and how this cohort reacted to the space race, the Cuban missile crisis, John F. Kennedy's assassination, and the Vietnam War. Impressive chapters explore the construction of racial identities, the perceptions and lived experience of children of the counterculture, and preadolescents' reactions to the women's libe…

  • Hollywood's America: Understanding History Through Film

    Steven Mintz, Randy W Roberts et al.BOOKHollywood's America2016

  • Children in North American Slavery

    Steven MintzCHAPTERThe Routledge history of…2015

  • The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood

    Steven MintzARTICLEJournal of American History2015Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood Get access By Steven Mintz. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. xvii, 409 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Page 897, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav610 Published: 01 December 2015

  • Accounting for the Public Interest: Perspectives on Accountability, Professionalism and Role in Society

    Steven M Mintz, Steven MintzBOOKAccounting for the Public Interest2013

  • Commercialism and Universities: An Ethical Analysis

    Open AccessSteven Mintz, Arline Savage et al.ARTICLEJournal of Academic Ethics2010Cited by: 2References: 1

  • Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders: The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies by Sandra Rollings‐Magnusson

    Open AccessSteven MintzARTICLEGender & History2010

  • William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred

    Steven MintzARTICLESlavery and Abolition2009

    William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred, edited by James Brewer Stewart, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008, vii+139 pp., $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-13658-6 How should William Lloyd Garrison be remem

  • The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform

    John C Inscoe, Steven Mintz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2009Cited by: 1

    The premise of this essay collection is that the institution of slavery as practiced in the American South was a historical evil that has never been fully confronted or atoned for. While a major strand of recent scholarship has focused on slavery's moral and philosophical implications as well as its physical, emotional, and psychological cruelties, coeditor Steven Mintz suggests that a true moral history of slavery must wrestle with bigger questi…

  • Frederick Douglass Reflects on the Status of African Americans

    Steven MintzARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2008

    With the Union's overwhelming victory in the Civil War, Reconstruction appeared to offer an unprecedented opportunity to redress the injustices that resulted from over two centuries of slavery and to bring the nation closer to its founding ideals of liberty and equality. For all its limitations, Reconstruction represented a unique attempt to create a color-blind democracy. The American South was the only postemancipation society, except for Haiti…

  • The Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

    Steven MintzARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2007

    Journal Article The Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment Get access Steven Mintz Steven Mintz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 21, Issue 3, July 2007, Pages 47–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/21.3.47 Published: 01 July 2007

  • Taking Stock of Our Resources: A Request from Theodore Roosevelt, 1908

    Steven MintzARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2007

    In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner advanced his “frontier thesis,” arguing that the national character of the United States had been shaped by its westward expansion and encounter with the natural environment. To many, no other person embodied this character more than Theodore Roosevelt. As president, Roosevelt made the conservation of natural resources a national priority. Born in New York City in 1858, Roosevelt suffered headaches, fevers, and s…

  • A Slave in Algiers: A Letter from a Captured American, September 1812

    Steven MintzARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2006

    In 1785, Algerian corsairs stopped two American merchant ships off the coast of Portugal and seized twenty-one crew members. Taken to Algiers, the captives were held as slaves and forced to toil in quarries. One captive went insane; altogether, ten prisoners died in captivity, several from bubonic plague. Over the next decade, Algerian privateers captured more than one hundred American seamen. The U.S. government felt powerless. “Would to Heaven …

  • Born to buy: The commercialized child and the new consumer culture

    Open AccessSteven MintzARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2006

  • Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850

    Steven MintzARTICLEJournal of American History2006

    At no time was the passage from adolescence to adulthood less predictable, orderly, or uniform than in the early nineteenth century. Following the Revolution, forms of dependency—such as apprenticeship and indentured and household service—that had structured colonial youths' experience eroded. Patriarchal and communal controls over courtship, sexuality, and marriage weakened. Meanwhile, young adults' options and opportunities expanded. Rates of g…

  • Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635-1855: Changing Perceptions of Childhood

    Steven Mintz, Nancy Hathaway SteenburgARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History2006

    Journal Article Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635–1855: Changing Perceptions of Childhood Get access Steenburg Nancy Hathaway. Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635–1855: Changing Perceptions of Childhood. New York: Routledge, 2005. vii, 262 pp. $85.00. Steven Mintz Steven Mintz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 48,…

  • Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation

    Steven Mintz, Elizabeth RegosinARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

    Emancipation and the citizenship that followed conferred upon former slaves the right to create relationships that were sanctioned, recognized, and regulated by the laws that governed the families of all American citizens. Elizabeth Regosin explores what the acquisition of this legal familial status meant to former slaves, personally, socially, and politically. The Civil War pension system offers a fascinating source of documentation for this stu…

  • Using Primary Source Documents

    Steven MintzARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2003

    The Gilder Lerhman Institute of American History, devoted to promoting the study and love of American history, presents a new column that will feature primary source materials from its collection and describe the ways in which those documents can enhance students' understanding of and appreciation for America's past

  • The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South

    Steven MintzARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2003

    Book Review| April 01 2003 The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South, Alex Bontemps. Steven Mintz Steven Mintz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (3): 116–118. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501334 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Steven Mintz; …

  • Man and Wife in America: A History

    Steven MintzREVIEWJournal of American History2001Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Man and Wife in America: A History. By Hendrik Hartog. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. viii, 408 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-00262-8.) Get access Steven Mintz Steven Mintz University of Houston, Houston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674960 Published: 01 June 2001

  • The Story of American Freedom

    Gary B Nash, Eric Foner et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article The Story of American Freedom. By Eric Foner. New York: Norton, 1998. xxii, 422 pp. and The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War. By David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxxiv, 572 pp. Get access Gary B. Nash Gary B. Nash University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…

  • Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

    Steven Mintz, Ira BerlinARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. By Ira Berlin. (Cambridge: Belknap, 1998. xii, 497 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-81092-9.) Get access Steven Mintz Steven Mintz University of Houston, Houston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1735–1737, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567590 Published: 01 Marc…

  • Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America

    Steven Mintz, Nicola BeiselARTICLEJournal of American History1998Cited by: 1