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Appendix C Suggested Reading Bogen, Hyman. The Luckiest Orphans: A History of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Cmiel, Kenneth. A Home of Another Kind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Crenson, Matthew. Building the Invisible Orphanage. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. Freedman, Renna S. These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880–1925. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1994. Hacsi, Timothy A. Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. Hadler, Susan J., and Ann B. Mix. Lost in the Victory: Reflections of American War Orphans of World War II. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1998. McKenzie, Richard B. The Home: A Memoir of Growing up in an Orphanage . New York: Basic Books, 1996. Patterson, James J. America’s Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Seraile, William. Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York’s Colored Orphan Asylum. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. Shaw, Richard. Dagger John: The Unquiet Life and Times of Archbishop John Hughes of New York. New York: Paulist Press, 1977. Wagner, David. The Poorhouse: America’s Forgotten Institution. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. ...

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