This was the Weekly Poem for 20 May 2006. We stretched our poetry-reading muscles with five versions of this much longer selection than usual (some 96...
Jacob Riis's *How the Other Half Lives* is a groundbreaking work of photojournalism that exposed the harsh realities of poverty and squalor in late 19...
Fannie Hurst's "The Vertical City" is a collection of six poignant short stories that delve into the harsh realities of urban poverty in early 20th ce...
This book provides a detailed account of the social settlement movement in Chicago during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It explores the aims...
This book offers a detailed and insightful analysis of the phenomenon of begging in 19th-century Paris. It explores the various methods employed by pr...
