The Testimony of Reverend Brand,” written and performed by Robert Bailey, on March 17-18. One moonlit night, Reverend Brand, ...

The story of Les Misérables (the book), written by Victor Hugo and published in 1862, is set in post-revolutionary France, ...

This arrangement changed with the introduction of the Income Tax in 1913. Now, there was an alternative to using tariffs to ...

Writer-director Huo Meng’s Berlin competition entry follows an extended family of farmers scraping by as their country ...

We need to read good literature to help us once again find connection with one another. Tragically, we have been desensitised ...

The appalling levels of poverty within Victorian and Edwardian society were impossible to ignore, but were made socially tolerable through the myth that hardship was the result of individual failings.

I say that we will soon be back to the 1930s poverty levels, but I fear that it will be more like 19th-century poverty levels. Poverty does indeed define us. We might try to deny this, but it has ...

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

The oystermen knew Sandy Ground was a safe haven for them to have the freedom to work, learn and worship where it would not ...

From the religious orphanages that proliferated in the 19th century to the “orphan trains ... children in orphanages had no living parents. Poverty, and the desperation that follows, have ...

In 19th-century America, Reform Judaism embraced conversion ... many facing significant poverty. The rise of fascism in the 1930s and the devastation of the Holocaust further impacted American ...