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Wendy A. Woloson

Wendy A. Woloson
Wendy A. Woloson is associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden and the author, most recently, of In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of the collection, Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of 19th-Century America.


The Long Golden Age of Useless, American Crap

Wendy Woloson Outlines a History of Our Glorified Junk
September 21, 2020  By Wendy A. Woloson
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