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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... Victorian enshrinement of motherhood came to pass, in part, because of the equally disconcerting effect that capitalism had on the male sex role. During the colonial era farmers, artisans, and merchants alike had tended to work at home ...
... Victorian enshrinement of motherhood came to pass, in part, because of the equally disconcerting effect that capitalism had on the male sex role. During the colonial era farmers, artisans, and merchants alike had tended to work at home ...
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... Victorian culture's attempt to make women's new noneconomically productive role more palatable. But it was also ... Victorians were quite disturbed by the way the new economy redefined men, and not merely because it forced them to ...
... Victorian culture's attempt to make women's new noneconomically productive role more palatable. But it was also ... Victorians were quite disturbed by the way the new economy redefined men, and not merely because it forced them to ...
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... Victorians found refuge in the image of the home as a feminine preserve, and of mothers as the protectors of innocent ... Victorian middle- and upper-middle-class mother was helped to take on her new responsibilities by a new genre of ...
... Victorians found refuge in the image of the home as a feminine preserve, and of mothers as the protectors of innocent ... Victorian middle- and upper-middle-class mother was helped to take on her new responsibilities by a new genre of ...
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... Victorians: General Principles of Education Truth and Sincerity Authority and Obedience Rewards and Punishments, Praise and Blame Temper Justice Harmony, Generosity &c. Fearfulness and Fortitude Independence Industry, Perseverance, and ...
... Victorians: General Principles of Education Truth and Sincerity Authority and Obedience Rewards and Punishments, Praise and Blame Temper Justice Harmony, Generosity &c. Fearfulness and Fortitude Independence Industry, Perseverance, and ...
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... Victorian era conversions in the late teens or early twenties were all but the norm. Several of the Olmsted children were "saved" at this age, shortly after the death of their sister. John's conversion came at a revival at Yale in ...
... Victorian era conversions in the late teens or early twenties were all but the norm. Several of the Olmsted children were "saved" at this age, shortly after the death of their sister. John's conversion came at a revival at Yale in ...
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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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