Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
(eBook)
Author
Published
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Status
Available Online
Description
Loading Description...
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
More Details
Format
eBook
Language
English
ISBN
9780547523705
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Stephen O'Connor., & Stephen O'Connor|AUTHOR. (2014). Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stephen O'Connor and Stephen O'Connor|AUTHOR. 2014. Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stephen O'Connor and Stephen O'Connor|AUTHOR. Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Stephen O'Connor, and Stephen O'Connor|AUTHOR. Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | 805ac8a2-5f09-2b0c-bda4-84aa394a2b6d-eng |
---|---|
Full title | orphan trains the story of charles loring brace and the children he saved and failed |
Author | oconnor stephen |
Grouping Category | book |
Last Update | 2023-12-07 17:04:22PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-04-17 04:20:34AM |
Book Cover Information
Image Source | hoopla |
---|---|
First Loaded | Nov 9, 2021 |
Last Used | Sep 21, 2023 |
Hoopla Extract Information
stdClass Object ( [year] => 2014 [artist] => Stephen O'Connor [fiction] => [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/opr_9780547523705_270.jpeg [titleId] => 11995131 [isbn] => 9780547523705 [abridged] => [language] => ENGLISH [profanity] => [title] => Orphan Trains [demo] => [segments] => Array ( ) [pages] => 384 [children] => [artists] => Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [name] => Stephen O'Connor [artistFormal] => O'Connor, Stephen [relationship] => AUTHOR ) ) [genres] => Array ( [0] => History [1] => United States ) [price] => 2.35 [id] => 11995131 [edited] => [kind] => EBOOK [active] => 1 [upc] => [synopsis] => 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 250,000 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 youngsters, 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. [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11995131 [pa] => [subtitle] => The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed [publisher] => Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [purchaseModel] => INSTANT )