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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... Poor 233 The Trials of Charley Miller 258 The Death and Life of Charles Loring Brace 284 Conclusion: Legacy 310 NOTES 331 BIBLIOGRAPHY 336 INDEX 350 Acknowledgments This book could never have been written without the viii Contents.
... Poor 233 The Trials of Charley Miller 258 The Death and Life of Charles Loring Brace 284 Conclusion: Legacy 310 NOTES 331 BIBLIOGRAPHY 336 INDEX 350 Acknowledgments This book could never have been written without the viii Contents.
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... He Saved and Failed Stephen O'Connor. There's a great work wants doing in this our generation, Charley—let's off jacket and go about it. Frederick Law Olmsted Prologue: Working for Human Happiness ON THE MORNING of Epigraph.
... He Saved and Failed Stephen O'Connor. There's a great work wants doing in this our generation, Charley—let's off jacket and go about it. Frederick Law Olmsted Prologue: Working for Human Happiness ON THE MORNING of Epigraph.
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... Charley Miller, who shot two young men dead on a boxcar in Wyoming because, as he put it at his trial, he was lonely and cold and so far from home. A cautionary note: although the term "orphan trains" has a poetic resonance and a degree ...
... Charley Miller, who shot two young men dead on a boxcar in Wyoming because, as he put it at his trial, he was lonely and cold and so far from home. A cautionary note: although the term "orphan trains" has a poetic resonance and a degree ...
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... Charley — let's off jacket and go about it."41 Brace would indeed have a profound effect on Frederick Law Olmsted's ... Charley's little sister — to have loved her in fact since he was five years old), "but," Fred continued, "I've no 26 ...
... Charley — let's off jacket and go about it."41 Brace would indeed have a profound effect on Frederick Law Olmsted's ... Charley's little sister — to have loved her in fact since he was five years old), "but," Fred continued, "I've no 26 ...
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... Charley Brace had just enrolled at Yale, Frederick returned to New Haven and sat in on some classes, but he was off again before the spring term was over, sailing out of New York as a seaman on a ship bound for Hong Kong. A year later ...
... Charley Brace had just enrolled at Yale, Frederick returned to New Haven and sat in on some classes, but he was off again before the spring term was over, sailing out of New York as a seaman on a ship bound for Hong Kong. A year later ...
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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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