SYMHC Classics: Orphan Trains

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This 2014 episode covers the 250,000 children in the U.S. taken to new families by train from 1854 and 1929, about. Except ... they weren't called "orphan trains" at the time, the children weren't all orphans, and "family" didn't always factor into it.

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0:33.1	Happy Saturday, everybody.
0:34.5	This week on the show, we talked about the practice babies
0:37.2	that were part of home economics programs from the late 19 teens to the late 1960s.
0:42.6	For the most part, the babies in question had been living in orphanages
0:46.0	or other child welfare institutions in a time
0:48.8	while things like foster care and social work were still evolving in the United States.
0:53.7	But got me thinking about a previous episode that had some similar context
0:58.0	about things that took place even earlier during that whole evolution.
1:02.0	That is the orphan trains, which relocated children mostly from cities in the US to rural areas.
1:10.2	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of iHeartRadio.
1:14.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.
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