The story of Les Misérables (the book), written by Victor Hugo and published in 1862, is set in post-revolutionary France, ...
Donald Trump seems to forget that the US has only become the big and powerful dominating economy over the past 80 years.
A prizewinning historian, he, along and his wife, Abigail, was a conservative opponent of racial preferences, favoring school ...
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 ...
The oystermen knew Sandy Ground was a safe haven for them to have the freedom to work, learn and worship where it would not ...
By the Hungarian Council Communist organization MBKSZ, this article talks about the so-called bankruptcy of marxism in ...
Finance minister had quoted Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar in her 2020 and 2021 Union Budget speeches as well. Even PM Modi has mentioned lines from the poet on several occasions.
In the 19th century, Wallace’s observations were striking ... many of whom lived in poverty and barely spoke English to understand the circumstances they were in. Wallace felt anguished for ...
But as a non-Native homeowner living on one of four roads entangled in a dispute over right-of-way easements between the Lac ...
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 ...
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.