American Childhoods

Excerpts frrom the autobiographical writings of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams,John McCullough, Davy Crockett, Lucy Larcom, Andrew Taylor Still, U. S. Grant, James L. Smith, Joanna Draper, Mark Twain, Charlotte L. Forten, Henry Adams, Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), Black Elk, Pierrepont Noyes, Lincoln Steffens, Edith Wharton, H. L. Mencken, William Alexander Percy, Mary Antin, Wanda Gag, Li Ling Ai, Sanora Babb, Alfred Kazin, Eudora Welty, William Jay Smith, Jean Fritz, Monica Sone, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Maya Angelo, N. Scott Momaday, Harry Crews. William Humphrey, Gloria Steinem, Richard Rodriguez, Joe Brainard, Frank Chin, Jim Carroll, Sheyann Webb and Rachel West Nelson.