In the last six months of 1853, 671 illegitimate children were born in workhouses. Irish emigrants leaving Cobh in the 19th century. Source: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images ...

At this time the poor and distressed of West Kerry had to travel up to 40 miles to the workhouse in Tralee ... From the mid-twentieth century pressure from the public, nuns, local clergy and ...

Less glamorously it was actually Worcester Poor Law Institution or Worcester Workhouse ... children. Despite giving the city much meritorious service during the middle decades of the 20th century ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to researcher Samuel Bazzi about the lasting cultural and political impact of the northward movement of white Southerners in the early 20th century. In the early part of ...