Victorian working-class life was defined by long labor, low wages, and urban poverty, where industrial growth deepened...
Poverty
Poverty has been shaped by the distribution of wealth and the policies societies created to address hardship. Read how economic inequality affected everyday life and inspired changing forms of relief.
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...