Regular readers of the blog may remember that I was in Milwaukee last month working for Gilder-Lehrman with teachers from the Milwaukee Public School district on the subject of "Women and Children in Colonial America." Part of my job was to give a lecture to 400 middle school and high school history students on the subject of "Children in Colonial America." This was a tough lecture to deliver--my audience consisted of students ranging from 10 to 18 years of age. There were 5th graders AND high school seniors in the auditorium!Well, the folks at Milwaukee Public Schools have written a blog post about my visit and posted a short audio clip of the lecture that includes the introduction and part of my discussion of Puritan childrearing. Here it is:
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How do you get invited to so many places? Do they pay all your expenses?
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