Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and FailedHMH, 4 de nov. de 2014 - 384 páginas The true story behind Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel is revealed in this “engaging and thoughtful history” of the Children’s Aid Society (Los Angeles Times). A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing the evolution of the Children’s Aid Society, this dramatic narrative tells the fascinating tale of one of the most famous—and sometimes infamous—child welfare programs: the orphan trains, which spirited away some two hundred fifty thousand abandoned children into the homes of rural families in the Midwest. In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, whether orphans or runaways, filled the streets. The city’s solution for years had been to sweep these children into prisons or almshouses. But a young minister named Charles Loring Brace took a different tack. With the creation of the Children’s Aid Society in 1853, he provided homeless youngsters with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family out west. The family matching process was haphazard, to say the least: at town meetings, farming families took their pick of the orphan train riders. Some children, such as James Brady, who became governor of Alaska, found loving homes, while others, such as Charley Miller, who shot two boys on a train in Wyoming, saw no end to their misery. Complete with extraordinary photographs and deeply moving stories, Orphan Trains gives invaluable insights into a creative genius whose pioneering, if controversial, efforts inform child rescue work today. |
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... American Antiquarian Society, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony for doing so much to make me a wiser, saner, and better writer. My thanks also to Kathy Newman, Paul Attewell, Rob Cohen, and Claudia ...
... American Antiquarian Society, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony for doing so much to make me a wiser, saner, and better writer. My thanks also to Kathy Newman, Paul Attewell, Rob Cohen, and Claudia ...
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... America today. Beginning shortly after the War of 1812, torrential immigration and the nation's uneasy transition to industrial capitalism had divided American cities into hostile camps of the affluent and the desperately poor. In no ...
... America today. Beginning shortly after the War of 1812, torrential immigration and the nation's uneasy transition to industrial capitalism had divided American cities into hostile camps of the affluent and the desperately poor. In no ...
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... America, CAS agents rarely checked up in person on the boys and girls they had placed. The society tried to keep tabs on placements by ... American child welfare history. Until well into the twentieth century, virtually every Prologue xvii.
... America, CAS agents rarely checked up in person on the boys and girls they had placed. The society tried to keep tabs on placements by ... American child welfare history. Until well into the twentieth century, virtually every Prologue xvii.
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... America's rapidly growing cities, Beecher told some thirty Congregational clergymen whom he had invited to a meeting in New Haven: "The mass is changing. We are becoming another people. Our habits have held us long after those moral ...
... America's rapidly growing cities, Beecher told some thirty Congregational clergymen whom he had invited to a meeting in New Haven: "The mass is changing. We are becoming another people. Our habits have held us long after those moral ...
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... American mothers on whose intelligence and discretion the safety and prosperity of our Republic so much depend." And Lydia H. Sigourney, in her Letters to Mothers, maintained that "the mother, kneeling by the cradle-bed, hath her hand ...
... American mothers on whose intelligence and discretion the safety and prosperity of our Republic so much depend." And Lydia H. Sigourney, in her Letters to Mothers, maintained that "the mother, kneeling by the cradle-bed, hath her hand ...
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Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved ... Stephen O'Connor Visualização parcial - 2004 |
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