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Orphan Trains American History:     more books (19)

Orphan Trains (Researching American History) The Orphan Trains (American Events) by Annette R. Fry, 1994-04 Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed by Stephen O'Connor, 2004-03-01 Children of the Orphan Trains (Picture the American Past) by Holly Littlefield, 2000-12 Orphan Train Riders: A Brief History of the Orphan Train Era (1854-1929): With Entrance Records from the American Female Guardian Society's by Tom Riley, 2005-01 The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Bison Book) by Marilyn Irvin Holt, 1994-02-01 We Are a Part of History: The Story of the Orphan Trains by Michael Patrick, Evelyn Sheets, et all 1995-03 Waifs, Foundlings, and Half-Orphans: Searching for America's Orphan Train Riders by Mary Ellen Johnson, 2009-05-01 The Orphan Trains: Leaving the Cities Behind (Perspectives on History Series) Orphan Trains Traveling West to a New Life ( American History for Kids Cobblestone) A Faraway Home: An Orphan Train Story by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos, 2006-01-20 Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories by Mary Ellen Johnson, 1995-03 Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories by Marvin Chamberlin, 1997-10-01 Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories by Kay B. Hall, Mary Ellen Johnson, 1993-10-06

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1. The Last Orphan Trains - Suite101.com
   united with historians and writers, the survivors of the orphan trains work to preserve the memory of one of the most remarkable episodes in american history.  
   http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/history_for_children/18539
   
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2. TeachPDLaw's American History To 1870
   America s Westhistory Development Wonderful site on the history of the West. The american Experience-The orphan trains.  
   http://members.aol.com/teachpdlaw/amhist.htm
   
   Extractions: To quickly jump to the area of your choice you can use these hyperlinks General Historical References Historic American Documents Native Americans Age of Discovery ... The Civil War General Historical References PARKNET - The National Parks of America The History of Money Ever wonder about the evolution of our money? This site will help Fundamental Facts About U.S. Money American History Areas History of the Pledge of Allegiance The History Net ... This Day in History Historic American Documents U.S. Historical Documents U.S. Founding Documents The Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Federalist Papers including scans of the originals Listing of Historical Documents Just about every American historical document available U.S. Historical Documents Archive Avalon Project at Yale A massive collection of historic documents many dealing with the Confederate States of America The Federalist Papers History of the Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence Read the Declaration plus a list of the signers Declaring Independence: Drafting the Document Learn about the drafting of this document We The People-The United States Constitution Bill Of Rights US Constitution Overview Emancipation Proclamation ... Gettysburg Address Read about and see the many versions of this document Constitution of the Confederate States of America Native Americans Native American Cultural Resources Age of Discovery

3. The American Experience/The Orphan Trains/Teacher's Guide
   Subjects social history. The orphan trains follows the story of the New York Children s Aid children with homes in rural communities in the american midwest.  
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/teachers.html
   
   Extractions: Teacher's Guide Subjects: social history Thinking skills: chronological thinking, historical analysis and interpretation, historical research Time period: The Orphan Trains follows the story of the New York Children's Aid Society, created in 1853 to provide thousands of street children with homes in rural communities in the American midwest. This forerunner of modern foster care forever changed the lives of poor urban childrensometimes providing them with great opportunity, sometimes bringing heartbreak and disappointment. 1. Ask students how children are generally viewed in our culture. How has this view changed over time? 2. As students watch the program, ask them to write down Charles Loring Brace's reasons for developing the Children's Aid Society. Have them also note the strengths and weaknesses of his organization. 1. Discuss whether or not the Children's Aid Society child placement program would be appropriate today. What must people consider when designing a foster care program? Brainstorm a list of goals for such programs. 2. Ask students if the first-hand accounts in the program affected how they viewed the whole story. Who didn't they hear from directly? If they had heard from these other people, how do they think it might have affected their view?

4. Orphan Trains
   In every american community, especially in a western one, there The orphan trains represented one of the most tragic and at the same time heartwarming stories in Missouri's history  
   http://www.rootsweb.com/~mogrundy/orphans.html
   
   Extractions: Children from New York's orphanages came to the Midwest by the trainload in a huge migration that lasted 75 years. Estimates put the number of children relocated at 150,000 to 400,000, with some 100,000 coming to Missouri. Picture the plight of the poor immigrant coming to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In most cases they left poverty and oppression. Unfortunately they often discovered conditions were little better in the new world

5. Orphan Train Riders
   books have chosen to ignore this part of american history. their voice heard, to have history record their For many, the orphan trains, not only saved their  
   http://www.orphantrainriders.com/riders11.html
   
   Extractions: by D. Bruce Ayler (Descendant) Orphan Train Heritage Society of America. These biographic volumes were written by the riders, themselves, or by a descendant of the riders. As the various riders tell their stories, several things become clear about their common experience: 1. They all thought that they rode the only orphan train. Very few realized that they were part of a major migration into the western parts of the United States. Nor were they aware that other countries were also moving their children. 2. Most of these riders thought that there was something wrong with them—their parents had given them away. In truth, there were many reasons that the children rode the Orphan Trains—parental deaths, inability to feed them, children born out of wedlock, neglect, abuse, etc. There was no one reason which applied to all of these children. 3. The children were instructed not to try to contact their birth parents. They were to break all ties to their past. To be an orphan carried a heavy stigma among their peers. An Orphan was different. They were not as good as anyone else. Many of the orphans, described in these stories, carried heavy emotional scars through out their lives. Many refused to tell their own families about their past.

6. 20th Century America
   Nukes, Missiles and Treaties; orphan trains; Panama Canal and Dams; People; Persian with a ** denote my other web sites) Hotlist american history Government The  
   http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/20Cen.html
   
   Extractions: 20th Century America How to do Research using the Navigation Aids: 1. By clicking on the Hotlinks, you will be taken directly to the exact location where the Topic is located on the page. 2. When you click on a site located under a topic, another browser window will open automatically for you on top of this page. With your mouse, pull that window down below the Topic you are researching. Every time you now click on a site, the material will appear in this window. This will allow you to quickly and easily read the material and go through each site listed without losing this page. Remember to cite the "web sites and their authors" given below as your information "sources" in your paper or presentation for citation/bibliographic purposes. Hotlinks: Table of Contents: Major Sources

7. Orphan Trains
   newstribune.com/stories/060699/com_0606990024.asp 10) orphan trains Tale An american Tragedy (Book Tucson Author Alison Moore Explores The history Of The  
   http://www.42explore.com/orphan.htm
   
   Extractions: The Topic: Orphan Trains Easier - Beginning in 1854, for seventy-six years thousands of homeless, neglected poor children from New York City were moved west to rural towns and farm communities. They traveled by rail. Families took them into their homes. Some became foster children or were adopted into a family. Others lived as boarders, apprentices, or live-in laborers. Some found good homes; others found a new life of indentured service or even abuse. Some loved and were loved in their new homes. Others ran away or moved on to another family. Harder - From 1854 to 1929, orphan trains from New York "placed out" 150,000 to 200,000 destitute children, mainly to homes in the farming communities of the Midwest. Some of these children, young infants to age 15, were orphans. Many were homeless street kids, and others were given-up by parents unable to provide for their well-being. Some had been abandoned by their families, were runaways, or had been removed from abusive homes. Children on the orphan trains came from the street gangs and orphan asylums of the city. During the orphan train trip, children were accompanied by a placing agent. The trains stopped in scheduled locations. Children usually lined up in front of prospective takers on a platform or at a meeting hall. They were encouraged to look and act their best. Inspection sometimes involved poking and prodding; an attempt to ascertain their value as workers on farms or in local shops and businesses. Children that were not selected returned to the train to travel on to the another stop.

8. History For Children Articles - Suite101.com
   All Aboard the orphan Train What were the orphan trains? Read on and learn about the history behind some of the more famous american and French national  
   http://www.suite101.com/articles.cfm/3679/81-100
   
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9. Orphan Train Resources
   Wheeler, Leslie. The orphan trains. american history Illustrated, December 1983, pages 1023. Videos. Doing Local history with Video .  
   http://www.maquoketa.k12.ia.us/OT_Resource.html

10. PBS | History | United States
    Underground Nixon s China Game The orphan trains Partners of Foster Streamliners America s Lost trains Surviving the of Empire The Spanishamerican War Death  
    http://www.pbs.org/history/history_united.html

11. Orphan Trains To Missouri
    orphan trains to Missouri documents the history of the children as well as stories of the orphans themselves make this a rich record of american and midwestern  
    http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/spring1997/patrick.htm
    
    Extractions: As an "orphan train" crossed the country, it left part of its cargo at each stop, a few children in one small town and a few in another. Even though farmers needed many hands for labor, most of the small farm communities could not or would not take all of the children on the train. As the train moved to its next stop, those children not taken feared no one would ever want them. Early immigration laws encouraged the poor of Europe to find new hope with new lives in the United States. But sometimes the immigrants exchanged a bad situation in their native country for an even worse one on the streets of New York and other industrial cities. As a result, the streets were filled with crowds of abandoned children that the police called "street arabs." Many New York citizens blamed the street arabs for crime and violence in the city and wanted them placed in orphan homes or prisons. In 1853 a man by the name of Charles Loring Brace, along with other well-to-do men in New York City, founded the Children's Aid Society. The society planned to give food, lodging, and clothing to homeless children and provide educational and trade opportunities for them. But the number of children needing help was so large that the Children's Aid Society was unable to care for them, and Brace developed a plan to send many of the children to the rural Midwest by train. He was convinced that the children of the streets would find many benefits in rural America. In 1854 he persuaded the board of the society to send the first trainload of orphans west. With this, the orphan trains were born.

12. Genealogy: Orphan Trains
    Goodspeed s history. history. International. Libraries. Marriage Records. Medical Terms. Military. Native american. orphan trains. Prisons/Prisoners. Resource Sites.  
    http://www.genealinks.com/orphantrain.htm

13. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out In America
    institutional records, and newspaper accounts to bring the orphan train era to or readers who are simply interested in this lost chapter of american history.  
    http://www.history-us.com/The_Orphan_Trains_Placing_Out_in_America_0803272650.ht

14. Cyndi's List - U.S. - History
    Crawford, Nebraska; The Frontier in american Culture From the Fur Trade Sources of the history of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787; orphan trains See this section  
    http://www.cyndislist.com/hist-us.htm
    
    Extractions: The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.

15. Science NetLinks: Orphan Trains
    social tradeoffs by examining the history of the in rural communities in the american Midwest. of the Internet resources about the orphan trains have resulted  
    http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=72

16. 19th Century America
    WESTERN FRONTIER Timeline of Black history in the and Settlers in the Northwest orphan trains of Kansas Brides THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL american West Frontier  
    http://www.teacheroz.com/19thcent.htm

17. Orphan Train History
    Together these books record a littleknown chapter in american history The placing out of 200,000 homeless The orphan trains started in 1854 and ended in 1930  
    http://andreawarren.com/historyorphantrain.htm
    
    Extractions: Home About the Author Interview with Andrea Warren Author Visits ... How to Purchase Books Together these books record a little-known chapter in American history: The "placing out"of 200,000 homeless children, transporting them from mostly New York City by train to areas all across the country where they were taken by new families. The orphan trains started in 1854 and ended in 1930. They were the forerunner to modern day foster homes. Some say they were a good thing, others are horrified at the thought of lining children up to be looked over by prospective parents. Yet the same thing happens at today's "adoption fairs," where children needing families have the opportunity to meet and mingle with individuals and couples interested in adopting a child. It's estimated that perhaps 50 percent of the children found good homes. The other 50 percent were taken as workers or were shuffled from home to home or abused in various ways. Yet even these children frequently express their gratitude to the orphan trains for giving them at chance at lifea chance often denied them in the brutal environs of a vast city that offered no shelter. The children became homeless for a variety of reasons. Many were the offspring of newly arrived immigrants who fell on hard times and could not support their families. Some were removed from their homes for abuse. Others ran away. Sometimes children were orphaned when their parents died of illness or from accidents.

18. Orphan Trains: The Author's Perspective
    We Rode the orphan trains. Together these books record a littleknown chapter in american history The placing out of 200,000 homeless children, transporting  
    http://andreawarren.com/Books/TrainsOverview.html
    
    Extractions: The orphan trains started in 1854 and ended in 1930. They were the forerunner to modern day foster homes. Some say they were a good thing, others are horrified at the thought of lining children up to be looked over by prospective parents. Yet the same thing happens at today's "adoption fairs," where children needing families have the opportunity to meet and mingle with individuals and couples interested in adopting a child. It's estimated that perhaps 50 percent of the children found good homes. The other 50 percent were taken as workers or were shuffled from home to home or abused in various ways. Yet even these children frequently express their gratitude to the orphan trains for giving them at chance at lifea chance often denied them in the brutal environs of a vast city that offered no shelter. The children became homeless for a variety of reasons. Many were the offspring of newly arrived immigrants who fell on hard times and could not support their families. Some were removed from their homes for abuse. Others ran away. Sometimes children were orphaned when their parents died of illness or from accidents.

19. Orphan Trains Of Kansas: Bibliographies
    american history Illustrated, Dec. 1983, pg. 10, The orphan trains (by Leslie Wheeler). Catholic World, Vol. 17, 1983, Public Charities . CGA World, Nov.  
    http://www.kancoll.org/articles/orphans/or_bibli.htm
    
    Extractions: Abbott, Edith, Immigration; Select Documents and Case Records , New York: Ayers Company, 1969. Beard, Lois Roper, The History of Laclede County, Tulsa, OK. : The Heritage Publishing Co., 1979. Brace, Charles Loring, Home Life In Germany Brace, Emma, ed., The Life of Charles Loring Brace , New York: Ayers Company, 1976. Brace, Charles Loring, The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years Work Among Them , Montclair, NJ.: reprint, Patterson Smith, 1967. Brophy, A. Blake, Foundlings On The Frontier , University of Arizona, 1972. Carlisle, Robert, ed., Account of Bellevue Hospital , New York: reprint, Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, 1986. Fifty Years of Charity , Golden Jubilee Booklet. Fry, Orphan Trains , (96 pages). Hansen, Marcas Lee, The Atlantic Migration 1607-1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States Hodge, Robert A.

20. Orphan Trains
    A history of the orphan trains american Experience orphan trains Geneology orphan trains Indiana orphan trains Project orphan Train orphan Train Riders  
    http://www.kidskonnect.com/OrphanTrains/OrphanTrainsHome.html

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