Introduction| February 01 2021 Introduction: When History Becomes Child’s Play Lisa Jacobson Lisa Jacobson Lisa Jacobson is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century (2004). Her edited volumes include Capitalism’s Hidden Worlds (2020), co-edited with Kenneth Lipartito, and Children and Consumer Culture in American Society (2008), a collection of essays and primary source documents. Her work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Social History, Enterprise and Society, Food, Culture, and Society, and the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. She is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled Fashioning New Cultures of Drink: Alcoholic Beverages and the Politics of Pleasure, which examines how the still morally suspect alcohol industry sought legitimacy after Prohibition and transformed wine, beer, and spirits into widely accepted emblems of the good life. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2021) 43 (1): 8–17. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2021.43.1.8 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lisa Jacobson; Introduction: When History Becomes Child’s Play. The Public Historian 1 February 2021; 43 (1): 8–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2021.43.1.8 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History2021 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.