Paula S. Fass (born May 22, 1947) is an American historian and the Margaret Byrne Professor of History (Emerita) at the University of California, Berkeley. A social and cultural historian, Fass has published numerous books on the history of childhood and youth in the United States,^[1][2] and served as president of the Society for the History of Children and Youth from 2007 to 2009.^[3]

Fass was born on May 22, 1947,^[4] and educated at Columbia University.

• The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child. Princeton University Press, 2016
• The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World (Editor). Routledge, 2013.
• Reinventing Childhood After World War II (co-edited with Michael Grossberg). University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
• Children of a New World: Society, Culture, and Globalization. New York University Press, 2007.
• Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society (Editor-in-Chief). Macmillan Reference, 2004.
• Childhood in America (co-edited with Mary Ann Mason). New York University Press, 2000.
• Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America. Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education. Oxford University Press, 1989.
• The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. Oxford University Press, 1977.