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General Law Code for the Prussian States, Part II.2: “Of the Mutual Rights and Obligations of Parents and Children” (1794)

Johanna Schopenhauer, the Daughter of a Danzig Merchant, Reflects on Her Childhood and Youth in the 1770s (published posthumously, 1839)

A Boy’s Childhood in Cologne, c. 1810 (1862)

The Son of a Non-Commissioned Prussian Officer Reflects on His Childhood and Youth in the Late Eighteenth Century (published posthumously, 1874)

The Childhood and Youth of a Prussian Nobleman in the Late Eighteenth Century. From the Memoirs of Friedrich August Ludwig von der Marwitz (published posthumously, 1908)

Childhood in Rostock, on the Baltic Coast (1807)

The Early Life of a Nuremberg Tailor’s Son (1798)

A Noblewoman from Schleswig-Holstein Reflects on Her Idyllic Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century (published posthumously, 1896)

Law Governing Divorce in the Grand Duchy of Baden (1809)

Society

Broadsheet: “Here Comes the Cart of Money” (c. 1655)

Servants’ Ordinance (1703)

Sumptuary Ordinance (1703)

Anton Josef von Prenner, Peasants Fighting (1728/1735)

Meissen Plate, attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold (1730s)

Classified Ads from the Hamburger Relations-Courier (March 23, 1736)

Real Estate Advertisement from the Reichspostreuter (August 3, 1776)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Excerpts from The Education of the Human Race (1777)

Dorothea Schlegel, Letter to Friedrich Schlegel (August 21, 1808)

Christian Wolff, Rational Thoughts on the Social Life of Mankind (1721)

Desktop Clock from the Workshop of David Roentgen (c. 1780-1790)

Enlightenment Philosophy, Political Thought, and Social Criticism: Expressions of Early German Nationalism

Johann Gottfried von Herder, Excerpts from Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind (1784–91)

Immanuel Kant, “Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View” (1784)

Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment’?” (1784)