Need for Theory: Understandings of Human Past, Human Future

Bhabha, Homi, "DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation," in The Location of Culture (1994)
Christian, David, "The Case for 'Big History,'" Journal of World History 2 (Fall 1991): 223-38.
Clark, Grahame, Space, Time, and Man (1992)
Gould, Stephen Jay, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (1987)
Hawking, Stephen W., A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988)
Rossi, Paolo, The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico (1984)
Goodfield, June, The Discovery of Time (1965)
(All cited in Dimock, Through Other Continents).

Children adopt poor kids; animals

A chapter on the phenomenon of children "adopting" more unfortunate beings through newspaper campaigns, etc - like those elephants in Hansen's Animal Attractions, or Balto.

Possible foreign children they could exercise charity on:
Belgians during WWI - book about Hoover and Belgian relief? Janet says there is one.
Chinese, Indians during famines (see Davis)
Armenians during genocide??
Congolese during Leopold's reign
Japanese after 1923 earthquake - mentioned in Beverly Cleary's autobio

Read Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains, on British anti-slavery movements? Definitely look again in King Leopold's Ghost for mentions of anti-Belgian children's books.