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"A definitive history of homelessness in the United States..." -- page 4 of cover.

Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the grea

One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today. In the

An exploration of day-to-day urban life in colonial America. The American city was an integral part of the colonial experience. Although the five largest cities

In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling coun