Each volume in the widely-successful Working Americans series focuses on a particular type of American and illustrates what life was like for that group from the 1800s to the present time. The volumes are arranged into decade-long chapters, each introducing to the reader three individuals or...

Working Americans, 1898-2016 Volume XIV: African Americans -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1898-1919 -- 1898: African American Wood Turner -- 1913: Young Singer of Spirtuals -- 1916: African American U.S. Army Major -- 1917: Civil Rights Advocate -- 1919: Female African American...

Each volume in the widely-successful Working Americans series focuses on a particular type of American and illustrates what life was like for that group from the 1800s to the present time. The volumes are arranged into decade-long chapters, each introducing to the reader three individuals or...

"The Routledge History of Poverty in Europe, c.1450-1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. By exploring poverty and...