| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Kenneth L. Kusmer. Down and Out, On the Road: The Homeless in American History. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 332. Cloth $45.00, paper $21.95.
This remarkable book by Kenneth L. Kusmer is the first comprehensive history of the homeless in the United States. It was many years in the writing, and the author's meticulous scholarship, careful attention to detail, and thoughtful interpretation are evident throughout. The book's title refers to the "down and out" homeless who have lived in one place, which has often been an urban "skid row" or "the main stem" (p. 160). Those "on the road" were homeless persons who traveled, typically by rail, and who have been labeled tramps, hobos, or the transient.	1
Kusmer begins with an examination of homelessness from the late seventeenth century through the early nineteenth century. Although the number of homeless fluctuated somewhat in this period (rising in the late eighteenth century and in the 1820s), concern about the homeless was not widespread. The homeless were also largely an urban phenomenon; rural residents rarely encountered homeless persons.	. . .

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