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Informationen zum Autor David Wagner holds a bachelor's degree from UC Irvine in Information and Computer Science with a minor in Digital Arts. He has over a decade of professional experience creating engaging and exciting content for large audiences. As a Content Creator for Theme Park Review, David's unique reporting and video creation garnered hundreds of millions of views across multiple social platforms. As the convention-week Social Media Manager for Midsummer Scream Convention (the world's largest Halloween and Horror convention), David produced social media content that informed and entertained over 30,000 convention attendees, as well as engaged thousands more watching from home. Additionally, his work as an "essential worker" at Trader Joe's during the pandemic gave him a front row view to the Covid-19 pandemic, making him uniquely qualified to write a children's book on the subject. Klappentext Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim 'you are driving me to the poorhouse!' or remember the card in the Monopoly game which says 'Go to the Poorhouse! Lose a Turn!' Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundred years of American history. Exploring the history of the 'inmates' as well as staff and officials in New England, this book connects contemporary times to the 'poorhouse' history as the homeless shelter, jail, prison, and other institutions again hold millions of poor people under institutional care, sometimes in the very same structures that were poorhouses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Poorhouse, Almshouse, Poor Farm: Buried American History Chapter 2 Scenes from the Poorhouse Chapter 3 What the Forefathers Had in Mind: The Purpose and Contradictions of the Poorhouse Chapter 4 Undermining the Poorhouse: Long and Short-Term Inmates in the Late Nineteenth Century Chapter 5 Inmates, Overseers, and the Politics of the Poorhouse Chapter 6 The Long End: Inmates in the Twentieth Century Poorhouse Chapter 7 Matrons, Doctors, Staff, and the End of the Poorhouse Chapter 8 The Ironies of History: The Return of the Poorhouse...
