The poorhouse: America's forgotten institution

Poorhouse, almshouse, poor farm

Scenes from the poorhouse

What the forefathers had in mind : the purpose and contradictions of the poorhouse

Undermining the poorhouse : long and short-term inmates in the late nineteenth century

Inmates, overseers, and the politics of the poorhouse

The long end : inmates in the twentieth century poorhouse

Matrons, doctors, staff and the end of the poorhouse

The ironies of history : the return of the poorhouse.