Children on the Tracks

Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 250,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children were transported from the teeming slums of New York City to the rural Midwest. Historian Emily Carter chronicles this massive social experiment in "e;The Children on the Tracks."e; Orchestrated by Charles Loring Brace and the Children's Aid Society, the goal was benevolent but the methods were brutal. Carter d...