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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... brother's problem, Emma had no hesitation about being ambitious on his behalf: "Though you have noble antagonists, I should think you may attain, if not the first (which I hardly dare to hope), at least one of the first."34 Charles also ...
... brother's problem, Emma had no hesitation about being ambitious on his behalf: "Though you have noble antagonists, I should think you may attain, if not the first (which I hardly dare to hope), at least one of the first."34 Charles also ...
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... brother, the future author and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. One member of that group, Fred Kingsbury ... brothers, Fred Kingsbury, and Charles Trask. The broad-shouldered Brace, with long, greasy hair, a tight dark jacket ...
... brother, the future author and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. One member of that group, Fred Kingsbury ... brothers, Fred Kingsbury, and Charles Trask. The broad-shouldered Brace, with long, greasy hair, a tight dark jacket ...
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... brothers responded with eagerness to his ideas and example. Once, when they were separated for a few months, John ... brother (who also claimed to love Charley's little sister — to have loved her in fact since he was five years old) ...
... brothers responded with eagerness to his ideas and example. Once, when they were separated for a few months, John ... brother (who also claimed to love Charley's little sister — to have loved her in fact since he was five years old) ...
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... brother John and their good friend 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 ...
... brother John and their good friend 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 ...
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... brothers was never to be similarly united with God, a fact that caused him some dismay but also seemed a result of dearly held principles. He often trumpeted the virtues of his "unsettled" state in his arguments with Charley. In a ...
... brothers was never to be similarly united with God, a fact that caused him some dismay but also seemed a result of dearly held principles. He often trumpeted the virtues of his "unsettled" state in his arguments with Charley. In a ...
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