print email comment close The Adoption History Project URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~adoption/ Description: Introduction to the history of child adoption in the United States with profiles of people, organizations, topics, and studies. Features a timeline with associated essays on topics such as the 1851 passage of the first modern adoption law, opposition by the National Association of Black Social Workers to transracial adoptions, and the 2000 act that allowed foreign-born adoptees to automatically become American citizens. From a professor of history at the University of Oregon. Author: Herman, Ellen Extra Keywords orphan trains Library of Congress Subject Headings: Adoption Adoption -- History Adoption -- United States LII Database Information: Record 21123 created by Maria Brandt on 04/03/2006 Last modification on 04/05/2006 Published: 04/06/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21123