Orphan Trains

Stuff You Missed in History Class

Between 1854 and 1929, about 250,000 children in the U.S. were taken to new families by train. Except ... they weren't called "orphan trains" at the time, the children weren't all orphans, and "family" didn't always factor into it. Read the show notes here.

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2014-05-19 31 min Transcript

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