Published 2023
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“…Part I: Parental Rights and the Duty to Bear Arms: Congress, Courts, and the Military -- Competing Obligations: The Dual Military System, Youth Enlistment, and the War of 1812 -- A Great Inconvenience: Prewar Legal Disputes over Underage Enlistees -- Underdeveloped Bodies: Calculating the Ideal Enlistment Age -- Part II: The Social and Cultural Origins of Underage Enlistment -- Instructive Violence:
Impressionable Minds and the Cultivation of Courage -- Pride of the Nation: The Iconography of Child Soldiers and Drummer Boys -- Paths to Enlistment: Work, Politics, and School -- Part III: Male Youth and Military Service in the Civil War Era -- Contrary to All Law: Debating Underage Service in the United States -- Preserving the Seed Corn: Youth Enlistment and Demographic Anxiety in the Confederacy -- Forced into Service: Enslaved and Unfree Youths in the Confederate and Union Armies -- Epilogue: A War Fought by Boys: Reimagining Boyhood and Underage Soldiers after the Civil War.…”
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