Paul Ringel

Paul Ringel is an associate professor of history at High Point University. He is the author of Commercializing Childhood: Children's Magazines, Urban Gentility, and the Ideal of the American Child, 1823-1918.

1879 football match between Yale and Princeton

Turn-of-the-Century Kid's Books Taught Wealthy, White Boys the Virtues of Playing Football

A founder of the NCAA, Walter Camp thought that sport was the cure for the social anxiety facing parents in America's upper class

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