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Continuing to Pay the “Patriotic Debt”: The Establishment of the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ Orphans Industrial School, 1893–1912

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Bair, Sarah D.

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In 1893 the Pennsylvania legislature approved funding to build a residential, industrial school designed to consolidate under one facility the thirty-year-old program for the care and education of Civil War orphans in the...

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“This Place Was My Home”: Student Reflections on Living at the Scotland School for Veterans’ Children (1930–2009)

Creator:

Bair, Sarah

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Using twenty-three oral history interviews as a foundation, this article examines the student residential experience at the Scotland School for Veterans’ Children (SSVC) between 1930 and 2009. The interviews were conducted with...

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