Links and Resources
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.
On the occasion of the American bicentennial, Robert Coles wrote this TIME Magazine article about childhood in 1776 America and 1976 America.
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.
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Coles is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities at Harvard Medical School. He's the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning series Children of Crisis and The Moral Intelligence of Children and The Spiritual Intelligence of Children
