9780674796447
Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America
Timothy Hacsi; Harvard University Press
ISBN 13: 9780674796447
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
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Second Home explores why orphan asylums ceased to exist in the late twentieth century and why interest in them dwindled as well. Yet, from the Civil War to the Great Depression, America's dependent children received more aid from orphan asylums than from any other means.
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