Waters were the interstate highways of the early 19th-century United States. Many Americans earned their living as farmers, and waterways provided an efficient means of getting crops to market.

His 1842 Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population concluded that much poverty and ill-health was caused by the terrible living conditions and not by idleness. It shocked ...

A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived in mid-19th-century France ... had a negative impact on children's living ...

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems ... only to find deplorable living conditions in the cities and hardscrabble farmland out in the country.