| 1 | Defining our terms: What is youth? What is political participation? Why study these phenomena in historical perspective? Why study the role of technology and media in these events? | Checkoway, Barry. "What Is Youth Participation?" Children and Youth Services Review 33, no. 2 (2011): 340–5. |
| 2 | Youth Political Participation Before 1900 |
 King, Wilma. "Free At Last." In Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America. Indiana University Press, 2011, pp. 262–313. ISBN: 9780253222640. [Preview with Google Books]
Marten, James. "Introduction." Chapter 3 in Children and War: A Historical Anthology. NYU Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780814756676. [Preview with Google Books] Brewer, Holly. "Introduction" and "Conclusion." Chapter 1 in By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority. The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780807858325. [Preview with Google Books] Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. "Introduction." Chapters 1 and 4 in Kids on Strike! HMH Books for Young Readers, 2003. ISBN: 9780618369232.
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| 3 | Youth Political Participation 1900–1930 |
Nasaw, David. "Preface." Chapters 5 and 12 in Children of the City: At Work and at Play. Anchor, 2012. ISBN: 9780345802972. Wolters, Raymond. "Conclusion." Chapters 1 and 3 in The New Negro on Campus: Black College Rebellions of the 1920s. Princeton University Press, 1975. ISBN: 9780691046280. Fass, Paula S. "Introduction." Chapters 1 and 8 in The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780195024920. ———. "Skim." Chapters 3 and 5 in The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780195024920. Churchill, Suzanne W., Drew Brookie, et al. "Youth Culture in The Crisis and Fire!!" The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 1, no. 1 (2010): 64–99.  Douglas, Susan. "Amateur Operators and American Broadcasting: Shaping the Future of Radio." In Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future. Edited By Joseph Corn. MIT Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780262530767.
Cohen, Ronald D., and Raymond A. Mohl. The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling. Associated Faculty Press Incorporation, 1979, pp. 35–66 and 193–9. ISBN: 9780804692373.
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| 4 | Youth Political Participation in the 1930s |
Altbach, Philip G. Chapter 3 in Student Politics in America: A Historical Analysis. Transaction Publishers, 1997. ISBN: 9781560009443. [Preview with Google Books] Gellman, Erik S. Chapter 3 in Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781469618999. [Preview with Google Books] Schweinitz, Rebecca de. "Introduction." Chapter 4 in If We Could Change the World: Young People and America's Long Struggle for Racial Equality. The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780807872154. Optional Haas, Britt. As They Saw the Thirties: Activist Youth's Vision Of and For America. Dissertation: State University of New York at Albany, 2011.
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| 5 | Test 1 | No readings |
| 6 | Youth Political Participation 1940–1960 |
Shreve, Bradley G. "Introduction." Chapters 2 and 3 in Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism. Vol. 5. University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780806141787. de Schweinitz, Rebecca. Chapter 5 in If We Could Change the World: Young People and America's Long Struggle for Racial Equality. The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780807872154. Alvarez, Luis. Chapters 1 and 4–6 in The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II. University of California Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780520261549. Altbach, Philip G. "The National Student Association in the Fifties: Flawed Conscience of the Silent Generation." Youth and Society 5, no. 2 (1973): 184–211. Serb, Christopher.  "The Beach Boys: Chicago's First Junior Lifeguards." (PDF - 3.4MB) Chicago History, 2000.
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| 7 | Youth Political Participation in the "Long" 1960s |
Ajunwa, Kelechi. It's Our School Too: Youth Activism as Educational Reform, 1951–1979. Dissertation: Temple University, 2011. (Skim entire document, focusing on the discussion of underground newspapers) McMillian, John. "Introduction." Chapters 1 and 4 in Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780195319927. Williamson, Joy Ann. "In Defense of Themselves: The Black Student Struggle for Success and Recognition at Predominantly White Colleges and Universities." The Journal of Negro Education 68, no. 1 (1999): 92–105. Boyle, Deirdre. "Introduction." Chapters 3, 7, and 12 in Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited. Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780195110548. Bodroghkozy, Aniko. Chapter 3 in Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion. Duke University Press Books, 2001. ISBN: 9780822326458.
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| 8 | Visit to MIT Museum |
| 9 | Youth Political Participation 1970–1990 |
Vellela, Tony. Chapters 1–3, 9–10, and 12. New Voices: Student Political Activism in the '80s and '90s. South End Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780896083417. Soule, Sarah A. "The Student Divestment Movement in the United States and Tactical Diffusion: The Shantytown Protest." Social Forces 75, no. 3 (1997): 855–82. Reichard, David A. "Animating Ephemera through Oral History: Interpreting Visual Traces of California Gay College Student Organizing from the 1970s." The Oral History Review 39, no. 1 (2012): 37–60. Piepmeier, Alison. "Introduction." Chapters 1 and 5 in Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism. NYU Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780814767528.
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| 10 | Youth Political Participation since 1990 |
Allen, Danielle, and Jennifer S. Light, eds. Chapters 3 and 4 in From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age. University of Chicago Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780226262260. Bers, Marina Umaschi. "Civic Identities, Online Technologies: From Designing Civics Curriculum to Supporting Civic Experiences." (PDF) Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth (2008): 139–60. Goldman, Shelley, Angela Booker, et al. "Mixing the Digital, Social, and Cultural: Learning, Identity, and Agency in Youth Participation." (PDF) Youth, Identity, and Digital Media (2008): 185–206. Cohen, Cathy J., and Joseph Kahne. "New Media and Youth Political Action." (PDF - 1.5MB) Participatrory Politics (2011).
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