Ordinary People
Americans Falling in and out of Poverty
1st Edition
Published on 27. June 2025
326 pages
979-8-89391-604-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
