Kids and medicine: Bibliographic notes

Reiser, Medicine and the Reign of Technology (1981)
Seltzer, Bodies and Machines (1992) (Literature-based)
Swabe, Animals, Disease, and Human Society: Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Science (1998)

Bibliographic notes: Eugenics

Bannister, Robert C, Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought (1984)
Chamberlin and Gilman, eds, Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress (1985)
Haller, Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought
Ludmerer, Genetics and American Society
Pickens, Eugenics and the Progressives
Selden, Steven. Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (1999).
Selden, Steven. All other cites.

Bibliographic notes: Religion, nature, and technology

Albanese, Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age (1990)
Dunlap, Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest (2004)
Nye, America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (2004)
Stoll, Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America (1997)

Non-white children, science, technology

Jaimes, ed, The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance (1992) - Noriega essay on education
Lewis, Neither Wolf Nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change (1994)

Kids and Nature: Bibliographic Notes

Milton, Kay - Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion (2002)

Science and Culture: Bibliographic Notes

Beer, Gillian. Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1999).
Jardine, Secord, et al, eds. Cultures of Natural History (1996).
Pauly, Phillip. Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey (2000)

Evolution: Bibliographic Notes

Beer, Gillian. Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth Century Literature (2000).
Kemp, Peter. HG Wells and the Culminating Ape (1996).

Animals and Modernity: Bibliographic Notes

Armstrong, Philip. What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity (2008).

Children and Technology: Bibliographic Notes

Downey, Gregory - Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Communication, and Technology, 1850-1950 (2002)
Law, John - A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology, and Domination (1991)
Pursell, "Tots, Technology, and Sex Roles in America, 1920-1940," in Dynamos and Virgins Revisited (1979)

Play: Bibliographic notes

Gilbert, James, Work without Salvation: America's Intellectuals and Industrial Alienation, 1880-1910 (1977)
Huizinga, Johan

Education and Efficiency in the Progressive Era: Bibliographic Notes

Callahan, Education and the Cult of Efficiency
Fisher, Industrial Education: American Ideals and Institutions
Spring, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State
Tesconi & Morris, The Anti-Man Culture: Bureautechnocracy and the Schools
Wirth, Education in a Technological Society: The Vocational Studies Controversy in the Early Twentieth Century