The devices were used to track movement and measure productivity—an insightful foreshadowing of our current preoccupation ...

But nineteenth-century Americans were eager to represent ... Virtually by definition, women of color and poor white women were excluded from “true womanhood.” To the extent that white women ...

The Late Great Planet Earth' was a huge bestseller. Its message about the Book of Revelation explains why evangelical ...

Young Quaker women also taught in schools and, after the American Revolution, created charitable organizations for dealing with the poor of Philadelphia. The affluent but plain-style of life led ...

Vivienne Richmond demonstrates the power of clothing in the lives of the working and indigent poor of nineteenth-century England: children, women and men. This is an innovative exploration of clothing ...

The female authors of 19th-century culinary bestsellers were ... arising from ‘the destruction of estates in a poor and disorderly country with no industry and virtually no charitable institutions!’ ...

Throughout the 19th Century, it locked up women it suspected of soliciting students ... For the women caught up in in this system, "being poor, pretty and petulant seemed the biggest crime ...

A critical analysis of the human biology of the Erie County Poorhouse inmates will be presented, contributing significantly to our understanding of the lives of the 19th and 20th century poor.

By Nainika Nambiar The 19th century saw a lot of changes in Indian society. It was a time of reform and progress in areas ...