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The Poorhouse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

The Poorhouse

Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim 'you are driving me to the poorhouse!' or remember the card in the 'Monopoly' game which says 'Go to the Poorhouse! Lose a Turn!' Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundred years of American history. Surprisingly these institutions variously named poorhouses, poor farms, sometimes almshouses or workhouses, have received rather scant academic treatment, as well, though tens of millions of poor people were confined there, while often their neighbors talked in hushed tones and in fear of their own fate at the 'specter of the poorhouse.' Based on the author's st...

Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860

Interpretations of women in the antebellum period have long dwelt upon the notion of public versus private gender spheres. As part of the ongoing reevaluation of the prehistory of the women's movement, Carolyn Lawes challenges this paradigm and the primacy of class motivation. She studies the women of antebellum Worcester, Massachusetts, discovering that whatever their economic background, women there publicly worked to remake and improve their community in their own image. Lawes analyzes the organized social activism of the mostly middle-class, urban, white women of Worcester and finds that they were at the center of community life and leadership. Drawing on rich local history collections, ...

Report of the Special Committee on Outdoor Alms of the Town of Hartford, A.D. 1891
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 680

Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1885
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Peirce Genealogy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Peirce Genealogy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1880
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1168

Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1881
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the Federal Security Agency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1236

Report of the Federal Security Agency

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1889
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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1877
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

1877

Vivid account of the railroad strike.

New England Reporter ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1234

New England Reporter ...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1885
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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