Professors David Tanenhaus and William Bush provide a fascinating and vital historical overview of children on the witness stand. Their brief essay, Toward a History of Children as Witnesses, presents an invaluable summary of attitudes toward children in general, and child witnesses in particular. Their overview aptly argues for recognizing nuance and multiple threads, rather than searching for one fixed and certain historical truth about child witnesses. Placing the issue of children in a larger historical and philosophical context, their essay also debunks false assumptions about the nature of children's rights and conceptions of childhood as linear or progressing to more responsibility, freedom, and autonomy.