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SUMMARY:Nov 25 – Guest Lecture: Childrearing Discourses, Early U.S. Periodicals, and the THE MISSIONARY HERALD, 1810s
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Guest Lecture by Layla Koch (University of Heidelberg)
"O that our Children": Childrearing Discourses, Early U.S. Periodicals, and
the The Missionary Herald, 1810s
November 25, 2025, 6-8pm, P 6 (Philosophicum)
The Panoplist, later renamed to The Missionary Herald, was more than a
magazine detailing the projects of the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions. In the early 1800s, countless Protestant Americans relied
on the popular monthly periodical to stay informed about broader
benevolence in the Early Republic, establish affective, evangelistic
communities, and discuss the most anxiety-inducing responsibility of the
time: raising the first generation of U.S. Americans. By discussing
childraising discourses in The Missionary Herald, this talk will
demonstrate how early U.S. magazines effectively tied together the concerns
of their readership and their own specialized interests at the dawn of the
nineteenth-century print revolution.
Layla Koch is a third-year PhD candidate in American studies at the
University of Heidelberg under the supervision of Jan Stievermann. Her
project explores U.S. children's roles and shifting understandings of
childhood in the U.S. foreign missionary movement, 1810-1866. Layla has
studied abroad at Yale Divinity School and Uppsala University, Sweden.
Currently, she serves as the editor of Digital Childhoods, the companion
blog of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.
You can download the poster for the event here.
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