Tag: The Children’s Home
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Great Expectations
When I first learned that the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library had digitized the daily account of the first superintendent of The Children’s Home, I got very excited. I just happened to be in the process of writing the chapter on The Children’s Home for Murray Shipley’s biography. (He is generally credited with being…
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Turn Every Page…Again
The title of the documentary Turn Every Page comes from advice that the author Robert Caro received when he was an investigative journalist. The gist of it is that, as a researcher, you need to go through every piece of paper at your disposal. Caro remembers this advice as he’s leafing through thousands of documents,…
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When Facts Collide
My first sentence about an event in the life of John Carroll sounds simple enough: On an exceptionally hot day in June 1863, John Carroll’s mother told her five-year-old son that she would be back soon. However, this sentence has presented me with two conundrums. The first was his age. According to the records of…
Sabrina Darnowsky 