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• Families -- Brazil -- Santana de Parnaiba -- History
• Families -- England -- History
• Families -- Europe -- History
• Families -- France -- History
• Families -- Italy -- Veneto -- History
• Families -- Japan -- History
• Families -- Religious life -- Great Britain -- History
• Families -- South Africa -- Cedar Mountains -- History
• Families -- United States -- History

• Family history (Sociology)

• The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• The Family Among the Australian Aborigines: A Sociological Study (London: University of London Press, 1913), by Bronislaw Malinowski (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Les Relations de Famille au Moyen Age, Recherces Préliminaires: Terminologie des Rapports de Parenté Archives Généalogiques (in French; Pontoise: Société Historique du Vexin, 1914), by J. Depoin (PDF at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)

• The Emotional Life of Nations, by Lloyd DeMause (HTML at psychohistory.com)

• A Token for Children: Being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyful Deaths of Several Young Children (Worcester, MA: Printed For I. Thomas, 1795), by James Janeway (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Boys of the Ages: Their Dreams and Their Crafts, by Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times, by Elbridge S. Brooks
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• BodyWise Handbook: Eating Disorders Information for Middle School Personnel (2005), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF at maine.gov)

• Chapters From Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1921), by Juliet M. Soskice (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1895), by Letitia M. Burwell, illust. by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War (second edition; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1895), by Letitia M. Burwell, illust. by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Love-Children: A Book of Illustrious Illegitimates (New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931), by Miriam Allen De Ford (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of Education: A Social Interpretation (second edition; New York: Ronald Press Co., c1959), by James Mulhern (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization, by Ellwood P. Cubberley (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Western Education (London: A. and C. Black, 1921), by William Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Short History of Education (second edition; London: Ralph Holland and Co., 1904), by George Benson Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational Reform (London: William Heinemann, 1900), by W. S. Monroe (PDF files at Roehampton)

• Remembering School Days (Telling Our Stories v. 5; Sherman, TX: Big Barn Press, 2005), ed. by Jerry Bryan Lincecum and Peggy A. Redshaw (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• A Framework and Principles for International Comparative Studies in Education (1990), ed. by Norman M. Bradburn and Dorothy M. Gifford (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Learning at Not-School: A Review of Study, Theory, and Advocacy for Education in Non-Formal Settings (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2013), by Julian Sefton-Green (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Doing Comparative Education: Three Decades of Collaboration, by Harold J. Noah and Max A. Eckstein (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Gail Benjamin (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Seven Liberal Arts: A Study in Mediaeval Culture (Columbia University Teachers College Contributions to Education #11, second printing; 1919), by Paul Abelson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Rebirth, Reform, And Resilience: Universities In Transition, 1300-1700 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by James M. Kittelson and Pamela J. Transue (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Rise of Universities (1923), by Charles Homer Haskins (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The Education of Women During The Renaissance (dissertation; Washington: National Capital Press, 1916), by Mary Agnes Cannon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML with commentary at gbt.org)

• Medieval Education (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), ed. by Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Koterski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)

• Ninety Years of Education in California, 1846-1936: A Presentation of Educational Movements and Their Outcome in Education Today (Berkeley, CA: Sather Gate Book Shop, c1937), by William Warren Ferrier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eighty Years' Progress of British North America (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1863), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)

• Histoire Critique des Doctrines de l'Éducation en France Depuis le Seizième Siècle (2 volumes, in French; Paris: Hachette et cie, 1879), by Gabriel Compayré (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Short History of Education (second edition; London: Ralph Holland and Co., 1904), by George Benson Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Contribution of the Society of Friends to Education in Indiana (Indiana Historical Society Publications v13 #2; 1939), by Ethel Hittle McDaniel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), ed. by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Gates Open Slowly: A History of Education in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1949), by Frank LeRond McVey (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Education in Kentucky (published as Bulletin of the KY Dept. of Education v. 7 #4, 1914), ed. by Barksdale Hamlett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• History of Freeborn County: Including Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, and Outline History of the State of Minnesota, by Rev. Edward D. Neill; also, Sioux Massacre of 1862, and State Education by Charles S. Bryant (Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Co., 1882), contrib. by Edward D. Neill and Charles S. Bryant (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers (New York: R. Carter, 1846), by William Henry Foote
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Education and Philosophical Thought (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, c1962), by Kingsley Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)
• Yesterday's Schools: A Looking Glass for Teachers of Today (Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, c1962), by Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origins and Development of Elementary-School Science (Columbia doctoral dissertation; Chicago et al.: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1941), by Orra Ervin Underhill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Study of Man (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Bliss, Sands, and Co., 1898), by Alfred C. Haddon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), ed. by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Alida C. Metcalf (HTML at UC Press)

• Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto (originally published 1996; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James S. Grubb (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa: An Exploration of Frontiers, 1725-c. 1830 (c2008), by Laura Jane Mitchell (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

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