It’s not uncommon in Minnesota to see a news story about someone being sentenced to “the workhouse.” But what is a workhouse? It turns out Minnesota is one of the only states still using this term, ...

Note: In this essay, James Kences deals with a difficult subject concerning the treatment of the poor and indigent of Colonial times. "Voted that the selectmen erect or build a fit and convenient work ...

A Newtown man’s lifelong search for identity began in Caersws Workhouse, revealing the fragility of records and lives in ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along the ...

ALL FOR LIBERTY: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849. By Jeff Strickland. Cambridge University Press. 256 pages. $29.99 paperback; $89.99 hardcover; $14.60 Kindle. In discussions leading ...