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This new addition to the This is Who We Were series provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day-to-day life in America during the last two decades of the 19th century. Readers will uncover what life was like for ordinary Americans as they lived through an industrialized revolution, labor strikes, an influx of millions of immigrants, and the expansion of cities and the railroad. Collecting information from government surveys, social worker histories, economic data, family diaries, letters, newspapers, and magazine features, This is Who We Were: 1880-1899 assembles a remarkable personal and realistic look into America's past. This new volume features nearly 30 profiles of people living and working in the 1880s and 1890s, painting a complete picture of what it was like to live in America in this period.



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