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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... look around and see how few men keep any of the warm or noble sentiments which they had once. I am inclined to think it is particularly so in this country. Perhaps money-making is more entirely absorbing.... I don't believe we have any ...
... look around and see how few men keep any of the warm or noble sentiments which they had once. I am inclined to think it is particularly so in this country. Perhaps money-making is more entirely absorbing.... I don't believe we have any ...
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... look more on beauty as the expression of God to us, I have explained many of the peculiar feelings I have always had about it. That strange sadness— dreaminess — the pure effect it always had on me, — for I believe in the strongest ...
... look more on beauty as the expression of God to us, I have explained many of the peculiar feelings I have always had about it. That strange sadness— dreaminess — the pure effect it always had on me, — for I believe in the strongest ...
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... look out across the roiling East River at the white houses scattered on the green hills of Manhattan, and feel that one was in the midst of a rustic paradise. That impression, however, would be sadly dissipated as soon as one turned ...
... look out across the roiling East River at the white houses scattered on the green hills of Manhattan, and feel that one was in the midst of a rustic paradise. That impression, however, would be sadly dissipated as soon as one turned ...
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... look on almost proudly as we spoke. But as we — no, I — alluded to old friends, and home and the love which they had once, and the kind hearts which had been around them in old days, and then told them in the simplest, most untechnical ...
... look on almost proudly as we spoke. But as we — no, I — alluded to old friends, and home and the love which they had once, and the kind hearts which had been around them in old days, and then told them in the simplest, most untechnical ...
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... look in on farms, markets, and orchards and making more purposeful visits to well-known parks and gardens, and to jails, debtors' prisons, and schools for the poor, as well as to more common tourist spots, such as Tintern Abbey and ...
... look in on farms, markets, and orchards and making more purposeful visits to well-known parks and gardens, and to jails, debtors' prisons, and schools for the poor, as well as to more common tourist spots, such as Tintern Abbey and ...
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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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