Victorian working-class life was defined by long labor, low wages, and urban poverty, where industrial growth deepened...
Poverty
New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college...
Boston Almshouse Meeting the eligibility requirements of the Poor Laws was not easy in pre-1935 America. By...
How have societies solved this basic problem? Why have they adopted certain solutions, and then abandoned them...
Herbert Hoover surrounded by admiring children in war-torn Poland, 1946 Why aren’t we reacting with the same...
African-American family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Georgia in 1907 / Library of Congress By Dr. Keri Leigh...