Priscilla Ferguson Clement
Biographic Data
| ID | 1460428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priscilla Ferguson Clement |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priscilla Ferguson |
| FAMILY NAME | Clement |
| SIGNATURE | CLEMENT P F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delaware County Community College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The New Deal and Beyond
This collection of ten original studies covers a wide range of issues related to the regional distinctiveness of welfare provision in the South and the development of the larger federal welfare state. The studies examine New Deal and Great Society programs from the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps to Social Security and Medicare. In addition, they draw attention to such private-sector organizations as the Salvation Ar…
Children in Different and Difficult Times
Does history look different if viewed from the perspective of the history of children rather than the history of adults? Although the new Twayne's History of American Childhood series, co-edited by Joseph M. Hawes and N. Ray Hiner, does not directly pose this historiographical question, the series provides an enormous amount of information upon which one can speculate. One way of thinking about this question is to ask whether chil? dren's lives c…
Orphan Trains to Missouri
In 1853 a man by the name of Charles Loring Brace, along with other well-to-do men in New York City, founded the Children's Aid Society. The society planned to give food, lodging, and clothing to homeless children and provide educational and trade opportunities for them. But the number of children needing help was so large that the Children's Aid Society was unable to care for them, and Brace developed a plan to send many of the children to the r…
Growing Pains
Journal Article Growing Pains: Children in the Industrial Age, 1850–1890. By Priscilla Ferguson Clement. (New York: Twayne, 1997. xii, 287 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8057-4109-7.) Get access Kathleen W. Jones Kathleen W. Jones Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Page 1528, https://doi.o…
Growing Pains
On the Edge
Journal Article On the Edge: A History of Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams. By Carl Husemoller Nightingale. (New York: Basic Books, 1993. xviii, 254 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-465-03651-1.) Get access Priscilla Ferguson Clement Priscilla Ferguson Clement Penn State University, Delaware County Campus, Media, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, M…
Nineteenth-Century Welfare Policy, Programs, and Poor Women
Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700-1830
Journal Article Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700–1830. By Robert E. Cray, Jr. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. xii + 269 pp. $34.95.) Get access Priscilla Ferguson Clement Priscilla Ferguson Clement Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 242, https://doi…
From Slave South to New South
Journal Article From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Peter Wallenstein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xii + 284 pp. $27.50.) Get access Priscilla Ferguson Clement Priscilla Ferguson Clement Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 6…
Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City
Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City
The changes in the relative importance of humanitarianism, social control, and economy in the Philadelphia welfare system from 1800 to 1854 are examined by the author in regard to the management of public outdoor relief, indoor aid in the Alms-house, public and private assistance to needy children, and private charitable aid to impoverished adults
Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City
Journal Article Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City: Philadelphia, 1800–1854. By Priscilla Ferguson Clement. (Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson, 1985. 223 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, select bibliography, and index. $27.50.) Get access John K. Alexander John K. Alexander University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
Families and Foster Care
Philadelphia's Home Missionary and Children's Aid Societies, founded in the late nineteenth century, were two early foster care agencies whose middle-class founders attempted to control socially indigent urban youth by removing them to country homes. There the children, who were largely native-born, white Protestants, worked for their foster parents as servants or farm laborers. Since agency officials moved the youngsters frequently and rarely vi…
Families and Foster Care
Philadelphia's Home Missionary and Children's Aid Societies, founded in the late nineteenth century, were two early foster care agencies whose middle-class founders attempted to control socially indigent urban youth by removing them to country homes. There the children, who were largely native-born, white Protestants, worked for their foster parents as servants or farm laborers. Since agency officials moved the youngsters frequently and rarely vi…
Growing Pains
Children in Different and Difficult Times
Does history look different if viewed from the perspective of the history of children rather than the history of adults? Although the new Twayne's History of American Childhood series, co-edited by Joseph M. Hawes and N. Ray Hiner, does not directly pose this historiographical question, the series provides an enormous amount of information upon which one can speculate. One way of thinking about this question is to ask whether chil? dren's lives c…
Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City
The changes in the relative importance of humanitarianism, social control, and economy in the Philadelphia welfare system from 1800 to 1854 are examined by the author in regard to the management of public outdoor relief, indoor aid in the Alms-house, public and private assistance to needy children, and private charitable aid to impoverished adults
Families and Foster Care
Philadelphia's Home Missionary and Children's Aid Societies, founded in the late nineteenth century, were two early foster care agencies whose middle-class founders attempted to control socially indigent urban youth by removing them to country homes. There the children, who were largely native-born, white Protestants, worked for their foster parents as servants or farm laborers. Since agency officials moved the youngsters frequently and rarely vi…
Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City
The changes in the relative importance of humanitarianism, social control, and economy in the Philadelphia welfare system from 1800 to 1854 are examined by the author in regard to the management of public outdoor relief, indoor aid in the Alms-house, public and private assistance to needy children, and private charitable aid to impoverished adults
Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City
Journal Article Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City: Philadelphia, 1800–1854. By Priscilla Ferguson Clement. (Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson, 1985. 223 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, select bibliography, and index. $27.50.) Get access John K. Alexander John K. Alexander University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City
From Slave South to New South
Journal Article From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Peter Wallenstein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xii + 284 pp. $27.50.) Get access Priscilla Ferguson Clement Priscilla Ferguson Clement Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 6…
Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700-1830
Journal Article Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700–1830. By Robert E. Cray, Jr. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. xii + 269 pp. $34.95.) Get access Priscilla Ferguson Clement Priscilla Ferguson Clement Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 242, https://doi…
Nineteenth-Century Welfare Policy, Programs, and Poor Women
On the Edge
Journal Article On the Edge: A History of Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams. By Carl Husemoller Nightingale. (New York: Basic Books, 1993. xviii, 254 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-465-03651-1.) Get access Priscilla Ferguson Clement Priscilla Ferguson Clement Penn State University, Delaware County Campus, Media, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, M…
Growing Pains
Journal Article Growing Pains: Children in the Industrial Age, 1850–1890. By Priscilla Ferguson Clement. (New York: Twayne, 1997. xii, 287 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8057-4109-7.) Get access Kathleen W. Jones Kathleen W. Jones Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Page 1528, https://doi.o…
Growing Pains
Orphan Trains to Missouri
In 1853 a man by the name of Charles Loring Brace, along with other well-to-do men in New York City, founded the Children's Aid Society. The society planned to give food, lodging, and clothing to homeless children and provide educational and trade opportunities for them. But the number of children needing help was so large that the Children's Aid Society was unable to care for them, and Brace developed a plan to send many of the children to the r…
Children in Different and Difficult Times
Does history look different if viewed from the perspective of the history of children rather than the history of adults? Although the new Twayne's History of American Childhood series, co-edited by Joseph M. Hawes and N. Ray Hiner, does not directly pose this historiographical question, the series provides an enormous amount of information upon which one can speculate. One way of thinking about this question is to ask whether chil? dren's lives c…
The New Deal and Beyond
This collection of ten original studies covers a wide range of issues related to the regional distinctiveness of welfare provision in the South and the development of the larger federal welfare state. The studies examine New Deal and Great Society programs from the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps to Social Security and Medicare. In addition, they draw attention to such private-sector organizations as the Salvation Ar…
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