लेखक: Hendrik Hartog

In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna’ …

Hartog tells the heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of caring for the elderly, and its compensation, in a time before pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes filled this …

In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna’ …

In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna’ …

In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband’s authority and the wife’s dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means …

An engaging account of social reformer Jack Robbins, the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic, and their legacy.In 1914, social reformer Jack Robbins and a group of adolescent boys in Chicago founded the Boys …

In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband’s authority and the wife’s dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means …

We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and recipient alike, raise some of life’s most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twenti …