Download or read book The Newsboys Lodging House written by Jon Boorstin and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2004-02-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting tale of intrigue and philosophical exploration set in Old New York. Part urban history, part thriller, part character study, this mesmerizing novel delves into the young life experiences of William James, the seminal 19th-century American thinker whose ideas have so profoundly influenced American thought.
Download or read book New York s Newsboys written by Karen M. Staller and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's Newsboys tells the engaging tale of how social reformer Charles Loring Brace and his colleagues built New York's Children's Aid Society (CAS) in the nineteenth century. Seizing on the idea of using "newsies" -- boys who hawked penny newspapers on the city streets -- to promote his new charity, Brace saw the kids as symbolic of the rapidly increasing population of uneducated immigrant youth roaming the streets, eking out a subsistence living under dire conditions. The newsies were both heralded as shrewd entrepreneurs and feared as potential members of the "dangerous class." To New York's wealthy class, Brace touted the benefits of helping these children while warning of the social and political dangers of neglecting them. Attacked during his life for his dangerous ideas and bold actions, among Brace's earliest experiments was the Newsboys' Lodging House (NBLH), opened in 1853. The NBLH quickly grew beyond providing for the lodgers' basic needs into a well-rounded social service program offering education, vocational training, health care, employment referrals, and other services. Its policies and practices were forged from staff interactions with the earliest lodgers, colorful characters like the Professor, Fatty, Valise, and Dutchy. By 1855, NBLH efforts were yoked to other branches of CAS service, through its Central Office, including the controversial emigration branch (known as the "orphan trains"). Using primary documents and analysis of over 700 original CAS case records, Extra offers a new look at the foundational roots of social work and child welfare in the United States. It makes broad claims about the breadth and depth of CAS efforts, arguing that its significance to the history of the profession, the city of New York, and the country has been under appreciated. Charles Loring Brace laid down the foundations for progressive era reformers in areas as wide ranging as child welfare, juvenile justice, public education, and public health; his efforts hold lessons for today's social justice workers who face challenges similar to those of mid-nineteenth century New York.
Download or read book Crying the News written by Vincent DiGirolamo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.
Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Children s Aid Society written by Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Child written by Caroline Field Levander and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time that the infant colonies broke away from the parent country to the present day, narratives of U.S. national identity are persistently configured in the language of childhood and family. In The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader, contributors address matters of race, gender, and family to chart the ways that representations of the child typify historical periods and conflicting ideas. They build on the recent critical renaissance in childhood studies by bringing to their essays a wide range of critical practices and methodologies. Although the volume is grounded heavily in the literary, it draws on other disciplines, revealing that representations of children and childhood are not isolated artifacts but cultural productions that in turn affect the social climates around them. Essayists look at games, pets, adolescent sexuality, death, family relations, and key texts such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the movie Pocahontas; they reveal the ways in which the figure of the child operates as a rich vehicle for writers to consider evolving ideas of nation and the diverse role of citizens within it.
Download or read book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth Century America written by Wendy Gamber and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century America, the bourgeois home epitomized family, morality, and virtue. But this era also witnessed massive urban growth and the acceptance of the market as the overarching model for economic relations. A rapidly changing environment bred the antithesis of "home": the urban boardinghouse. In this groundbreaking study, Wendy Gamber explores the experiences of the numerous people—old and young, married and single, rich and poor—who made boardinghouses their homes. Gamber contends that the very existence of the boardinghouse helped create the domestic ideal of the single family home. Where the home was private, the boardinghouse theoretically was public. If homes nurtured virtue, boardinghouses supposedly bred vice. Focusing on the larger cultural meanings and the commonplace realities of women’s work, she examines how the houses were run, the landladies who operated them, and the day-to-day considerations of food, cleanliness, and petty crime. From ravenous bedbugs to penny-pinching landladies, from disreputable housemates to "boarder's beef," Gamber illuminates the annoyances—and the satisfactions—of nineteenth-century boarding life.
Download or read book Reports of cases heard and determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York written by New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rough and Ready Or Life Among the New York Newsboys written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rufus, also known as Rough and Ready, is a newsboy who must protect his sister, Rose, from an alcoholic stepfather, James Martin. Through luck, hard work, and honesty, Rufus finds a home for Rose with a kindly seamstress and prospers in his business of selling newspapers. However, Mr. Martin is lurking in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to reclaim the children and hatches a plot to kidnap Rose.
Download or read book American Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frank Leslie s Popular Monthly written by Frank Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theodore Roosevelt The formative years 1858 1886 written by Carleton Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive documented biography of the President. Contents.- v. 1. The formative years, 1858-1886. For contents, see Author Catalog.
Download or read book The Charity Organisation Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Male Homosexuality in Children s Literature 1867 1918 written by Eric L. Tribunella and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1908 cultural and historical study of homosexuality titled The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, Edward Irenæus Prime-Stevenson includes a section on homosexual juvenile fiction, perhaps the first attempt to identify a body of children’s literature about male homosexuality in English. Known for pioneering the explicitly gay American novel for adults, Stevenson was also one of the first thinkers to take seriously the possibility and value of homosexual children, whom he called "young Uranians." This book takes as its starting point Stevenson’s catalog of homosexual boy books around the turn of the century and offers a critical examination of these works, along with others by gay writers who wrote for children from the mid-nineteenth century through the end of World War I. Stevenson’s list includes Eduard Bertz, Howard Sturgis, Horace Vachell, and Stevenson himself—to which Horatio Alger, John Gambril Nicholson, and E.F. Benson are added. Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, these boy books can be understood as participating in the construction and dissemination of the discourse of sexuality and as constituting the figure of the young Uranian as central to modern gay identity.
Download or read book The Newsboy Partners Or Who Was Dick Box written by Frank V. Webster and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Frank V. Webster's novel, 'The Newsboy Partners; Or, Who Was Dick Box?' the reader is transported to the bustling streets of a city in the early 20th century. The story follows the adventures of a group of enterprising newsboys who form a partnership to solve the mystery of a missing friend, Dick Box. With its fast-paced plot and engaging dialogue, Webster's book reflects the popular dime novels of the time, emphasizing themes of friendship, loyalty, and perseverance. Set against the backdrop of an evolving urban landscape, the novel captures the spirit of a bygone era while offering insight into the lives of working-class youth in America. As a quintessential example of early 20th-century juvenile fiction, 'The Newsboy Partners; Or, Who Was Dick Box?' serves as a valuable cultural artifact that sheds light on the social dynamics of the era. Frank V. Webster, a prolific writer of children's books in the early 1900s, drew inspiration from his own experiences growing up in urban America. His background in journalism and his keen observations of city life are evident in the vivid descriptions and realistic portrayals found in his works. Fans of classic juvenile literature and historical fiction will delight in 'The Newsboy Partners; Or, Who Was Dick Box?' for its engaging narrative, vivid characterizations, and authentic depiction of a bygone era. This timeless tale of friendship and adventure is sure to captivate readers of all ages.
