Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read . Created and maintained by Pat Pflieger, West Chester University, Pa. Reviewed Aug. 23, 2005. Children in Urban America Project . Directed by James Marten and Karen Kehoe, Marquette University. Reviewed Aug. 23, 2005

Children in the twenty-first century are technologically savvy. They are comfortable surfing the Web, instant messaging with friends (e-mail is for old people), listening to music, and doing their homework on computers— often all at the same time. But what records will they leave behind for future historians? Perhaps a few old-fashioned e-mails, compact discs (cds), and digital video discs (dvds). But most of the Web sites they visit and instant messages they send will disappear. These two Web sites attempt to understand the lives of young people in the last two centuries through a host of materials that did survive—writings by and for children, drawings, photographs, and writings about children. Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read is a Web site born of a passion for exactly that—material written for children, and occasionally by children, in the nineteenth century. Pat Pflieger, an English professor and

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