Introduction / Corinne T. Field and Nicholas L. Syrett
Part I. Age in early America
"Keep me with you, so that I might not be damned" : age and captivity in colonial borderlands warfare / Ann M. Little
"Beyond the time of white children" : African American emancipation, age, and ascribed neoteny in early national Pennsylvania / Sharon Braslaw Sundue
Part II. Age in the long nineteenth century
"If you have the right to vote at 21 years, then I have" : age and equal citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States / Corinne T. Field
A birthday like none other : turning twenty-one in the age of popular politics / Jon Grinspan
Statutory marriage ages and the gendered construction of adulthood in the nineteenth century / Nicholas L. Syrett
From family Bibles to birth certificates : young people, proof of age, and American political cultures, 1820-1915 / Shane Landrum
"Rendered more useful" : child labor and age consciousness in the long nineteenth century / James D. Schmidt
"A day too late" : age, immigration quotas, and racial exclusion / Yuki Oda
Part III. Age in modern America
Age and retirement : major issues in the American experience / William Graebner
"The proper age for suffrage" : vote 18 and the politics of age from World War II to the Age of Aquarius / Rebecca de Schweinitz
"Old enough to live" : age, alcohol, and adulthood in the United States, 1970-1984 / Timothy Cole
Age and identity : reaching thirteen in the lives of American Jews / Stuart Schoenfeld
A Chicana third space feminist reading of Chicano life cycle markers / Norma E. Cantú
Delineating old age : from functional status to bureaucratic criteria / W. Andrew Achenbaum.