A Social History of Toys

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 22, 2023
Rob Goldberg, chair of the history department at Germantown Friends School and the author of Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children's Toys in 1960s and 70s America (Duke University Press, 2023), talks about social justice campaigns to make toys more diverse and less gendered in the 1960s and 1970s, and how those ideals and the toy industry's response connects to what is sold today, and how kids play.

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