Robert Coles and The Inner Lives of Children

"Children Consider Human Conflict": [http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2008-09/news/lowellpodcasts.jsp]; Download the video of Robert Coles delivering his 2008 Lowell Lecture for the Harvard Extension School. He speaks more specifically about the moral and spiritual inclinations of children, and his encounter with Ruby Bridges.
Growing Up In America — Then and Now: [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945449,00.html]; On the occasion of the American bicentennial, Robert Coles wrote this TIME Magazine article about childhood in 1776 America and 1976 America.
When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood: [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/young/young-exhibit.html]; A photographic exhibit at the Library of Congress featuring portraits of children from the early days of photography in the 1840s up to the 1960s. Robert Coles wrote a companion book to the exhibition.