This institute is tasked with delivering a high-quality education that is more affordable and accessible across the System's 14 academic campuses and health science centers.

He was named director of Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center and a member of the History Department in 2008.

[3] He married Maria Elena Solino, a professor at the University of Houston and an authority on Spanish literature and film, in 2009.

Mintz wrote the chapters covering the periods 1790 to 1860 and 1960 to the present in America and Its Peoples (6th edition, 2006), a college textbook, and published a number of anthologies, including a collection of essays on film and history, volumes of annotated primary sources on slavery, Native American history, and Mexican American history, and a collection of original essays dealing with race, slavery and abolition, and reform, entitled The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform (2007), co-edited with John Stauffer.

In addition to giving historical perspective to current psychological and legal thinking about childhood, the volume charted the evolution of public policy, tracing changes in ideas and practices involving adoption, child abuse and neglect, children's rights, disability, juvenile delinquency, schooling, and social welfare policies.

Full of fascinating information about the history of children in America, it also offers a major critique of the way our society constructs childhood.

This book reminds us that history can teach important lessons about how we got to be the way we are—and, sometimes, even suggest what to do about it.The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood (2015), a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, explores how past generations navigated the transition to adulthood, achieved intimacy and connection, raised children, sought meaning in work, and responded to loss.

In tracing the rise and fall of a set of norms and expectations surrounding adulthood, the book engages with a series of questions that have evoked a great deal of concern in recent years: Why it has grown harder to become an adult; whether intimate friendship is fraying in today's hyperindividualistic, highly mobile, work-centered society; why marriages are so difficult to sustain; why parenting is so anxiety-ridden; and why adult life seems so stressful when many of the physical hardships faced by earlier generations have faded.