Marilyn Holt
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Holt is former director of publications at the Kansas Historical Society and has served as a research consultant for the PBS ”American Experience” series. She is author of ”The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America” and ”Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890–1930” and of ”Indian Orphanages” which received the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Book of the Year Award in 2001 and was a finalist for the Oklahoma Center for the Book’s award for best non-fiction. ”Indian Orphanages” is one of the first book lengh studies of the evolustion of the orphanage system in Native American culture. She also edited a volume devoted to twentieth-century teenagers’ diaries and journals.Today Marilyn Holt is an Independant Historian who consults on Kansas History.
*”Indian Orphanages” received the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Book of the Year Award in 2001 and was a finalist for the Oklahoma Center for the Book’s award for best non-fiction. *Marilyn was honored at the 2004 Illinois Authors Book Fair sponsored by
Children of the western plains : | Indian orphanages | Linoleum, better babies, & the modern farm woman, 1890-1930 / | Mamie Doud Eisenhower : | Model Ts, pep chapels, and a wolf at the door : | The orphan trains :