Ordinary People

Ordinary People

In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age

by David Wagner

264 pages· 2015· ISBN 9781317254935
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David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of "poverty" as people's lives change over the course of time.

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