This is The New York Society for Ethical Culture's own "Making History" timeline, published on its own website, stating its own dated institutional history directly rather than through an independent or peer reviewed intermediary. Its strength is that the founding organization is the direct and authoritative source for its own dated programs and milestones, including its 1877 and 1878 founding activity. Its limit is that a self-published institutional timeline is not independently audited by a third party, so a claim needing outside corroboration beyond the Society's own account of itself needs a separate independent source.
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Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: the founding organization's own website, stating its own dated institutional history directly rather than through an independent or peer reviewed intermediary. A primary source for the Society's own claims about its own 1877 and 1878 programs, not independently audited by a third party. NotesThe New York Society for Ethical Culture's own website, read directly, stating that in 1877 the Society founded the District Nursing Department, a precursor of the Visiting Nurse Service and, per standard histories of visiting nursing, the first program of its kind, which placed a trained nurse in a city dispensary to visit and treat the sick poor of New York City in their own homes without imposing the Society's religion or any religion on them; and that in 1878 the Society opened a free kindergarten for the children of the working poor, which its own timeline calls the first free kindergarten in the United States, growing in 1880 into the Workingman's School and later into the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Classed own-published-statistics: the founding organization's own dated institutional history.
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AuthorThe New York Society for Ethical Culture
PublisherThe New York Society for Ethical Culture
URLhttps://ethical.nyc/makinghistory/
Source Typeorganization primary source
Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)
This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Denominations, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
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