This course employs a historical lens to explore the emergence of diverse youth cultures in the United States. Primarily looking beyond the schoolhouse, this course explores how childhood, adolescence, and youth culture are socially constructed, evolving categories. Examining topics as diverse as cyberbullying, working-class girls in 19th-century New York City, teenaged Mexican American protestors in 1960s East L.A. and various "masculinity crises" that have flared throughout U.S. history, the ways that race, class, gender, citizenship/nationality, region, and sexuality intersect with the experiences of youth are central themes uniting the course. Students will explore both primary and secondary sources in the history of youth cultures, and will be expected to formulate their own written and oral perspectives on these and outside materials.