Any maid or woman child: a new nation and its marriage laws

The child was to be his wife: patterns of youthful marriage in antebellum America

Wholly unfit for the marriage condition: Parton v. Hervey and struggles over age of consent laws

The great life-long mistake: women's rights advocates and the feminist critique of early marriage

My little girl wife: the transformation of childhood and marriage in the late nineteenth century

I did and I don't regret it: child marriage and the contestation of childhood, 1880-1925

Marriage reform is still an unplowed field: reformers target child marriage during the 1920s

Marriage comes early in the mountains: the persistence of child marriage in the rural South

Are they marrying too young? the teenage marriage "crisis" of the postwar years

There was no stopping her: teen marriage continues in rural America.