David Michael Greenspoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am a Ph.D. candidate in History at Pennsylvania State University,

investigating how children were taught to spend money in the nineteenth century.

My dissertation, “Children’s Mite: Juvenile Philanthropy in America, 1815-1865,”

examines  juvenile  benevolence in early nineteenth century America to better

explain how the northern middle class – especially Christian activists among them

– negotiated  the burgeoning capitalist economy, and the place of children within it.

 

 

 

 

 

Images in upper left are from: Eliza Lee Follen, Little Songs (Boston: Nichols & Hall 1856 (1870 reprint)). Collection of David Greenspoon