"Children of the Tenements" by Jacob A. Riis is a non-fiction book that explores the lives of impoverished children living in New York City's tenement...
First published in 1916, this eye-opening treatise became a touchstone for the dark undercurrents of society's belief in racial superiority and the co...
My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a...