We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History, by Phillip Hoose

We Were There, Too!

Young People in U.S. History

By Phillip Hoose

Below are photos and quotes from We Were There, Too!

"As I am (as we say) a daughter of liberty I chuse to wear as much of our own manufactory as pocible."

Anna Green Winslow
12 years old
Boston, MA, 1771

"You take the drum and I'll take the fife"

Rebecca Bates to her sister Abigail
19 years old
Scituate, MA 1814

"I had been across the ocean for over a year, had seen whales killed and returned to tell the tale. What more could a boy want?"

George Fred Tilton
14 years old
New Beford, MA, 1870s

"We went in every day about nine o'clock with our books wrapped in paper to prevent the police or white people from seeing them"

Susie King Taylor
14 years old
Savannah, GA, 1862

"The shells get worse and worse every day. Oh that something would stop them"

Carrie Berry
10 years old
Atlanta, GA, 1864

"He never told a funny story and he rarely smiled . . . he granted me the sittings for no other purpose than I was a poor girl."

Vinnie Ream, about President Lincoln
19 years old
Washington, D.C., 1866

"I was a man from the time I was twelve years old--doing a man's work, living with men, having men's ideas."

Teddy Abbott
15 years old
Lincoln, Nebraska, 1876

"The only available boxcar was full so we climbed up on the top of the train and rode up on the catwalk"

Peggy Eaton
15 years old
Wyoming, Idaho, 1938

"I felt like I wanted to take on the whole Japanese fleet"

Calvin Graham
12 years old
Houston, Texas and the Solomon Islands, 1942