In the mid-19th Century, the United States saw the emergence of poor houses as a modern solution to poverty. These institutions provided shelter and work for impoverished individuals in exchange ...

It could take more than a century to eliminate poverty as it is defined for nearly half the world – people who live on less than $6.85 per day, according to the World Bank’s new Poverty, Prosperity, ...

In today’s theatre industry, you don’t have to look far to find queer representation. Although the theatre has long been seen as an accepting place for LGBTQ+ people, in the 19th century ...

Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats and Republicans to turn American ballots into ...

Instead, Mr Trump extolled the prosperity of America in the late 19th century, when the country was much poorer than it is today. “We can be so much wealthier than any country, it’s not even ...

While the latter's "Showstopper" category might trace its ancestry back to Carême's own sugar sculptures of the 19th Century, the first modern professional event of this kind for chefs started in ...

Princess Caraboo’s deception wasn’t driven by malice, but by the desire to escape the drudgery of poverty in 19th-century England. ... The 19th Century’s Most Charming Imposter.

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from what earlier protectionists had promised.