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Dr Holly N.S White

Assistant Editor of Digital Projects and OI Publications, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, United States

Email: drhollynswhite@gmail.com

Profile

Dr. White is a historian of early America who focuses on the history of age, childhood, and youth as well as the histories of gender, family, and law in the early republic. She is currently co-editing a Forum on “Double Age” that will appear in the Fall 2022 Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Her first book, Protecting the Innocents: Legal and Cultural Debates About Age and Ability in the Early United States is forthcoming with the University of Virginia Press. Her second book project, Encountering Childhood in Vast Early America, an edited collection, is forthcoming with Routledge Press.

Research

Expertise

History of age, childhood, and youth as well as the histories of gender, family, and law in colonial America and the early United States.
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