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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... letters of inquiry, but these mostly went unanswered. Sustained by a monitoring system that seriously underreported failure and by a prodigious quantity of blind faith, Charles Loring Brace tirelessly promoted what he called the ...
... letters of inquiry, but these mostly went unanswered. Sustained by a monitoring system that seriously underreported failure and by a prodigious quantity of blind faith, Charles Loring Brace tirelessly promoted what he called the ...
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... Letters to Mothers, maintained that "the mother, kneeling by the cradle-bed, hath her hand upon the ark of a nation."14 The authors of these guides had abandoned the harsh rhetoric of earlier generations. In none of them are mothers ...
... Letters to Mothers, maintained that "the mother, kneeling by the cradle-bed, hath her hand upon the ark of a nation."14 The authors of these guides had abandoned the harsh rhetoric of earlier generations. In none of them are mothers ...
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... letters, are filled with evocations of natural beauty, even when that beauty is only a certain quality of sunlight on a brick wall. In his early twenties he would frequently speak of nature as an "expression of God to us," or as ...
... letters, are filled with evocations of natural beauty, even when that beauty is only a certain quality of sunlight on a brick wall. In his early twenties he would frequently speak of nature as an "expression of God to us," or as ...
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... letter John wrote shortly after Charles moved to New York, he explained: Very early I exposed you to danger, urged you to climb, to swim, to do many things that many parents thought wrong and dangerous, for the very purpose of so ...
... letter John wrote shortly after Charles moved to New York, he explained: Very early I exposed you to danger, urged you to climb, to swim, to do many things that many parents thought wrong and dangerous, for the very purpose of so ...
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... letter to his father: "It is Sunday, and from some thoughts I have had, I thought I would ask your advice. All to-day, at the most solemn times, I have thoughts come over me which completely carry me away. These thoughts are principally ...
... letter to his father: "It is Sunday, and from some thoughts I have had, I thought I would ask your advice. All to-day, at the most solemn times, I have thoughts come over me which completely carry me away. These thoughts are principally ...
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