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Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, multiple sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological illnesses that create dysfunction, distress, and disability. With their symptoms ranging from impaired movement and paralysis to hallucinations and dementia, neurological patients present myriad puzzling disorders and medical challenges.
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Frank Mort has written an ambitious book that examines sexual culture in 1950s London. Using methods from cultural geography, post-colonial studies, queer studies, and the history of scandal, Mort seeks to “revise and complicate the histories we already possess”.
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Louisiana Works Progress Administration (WPA) | louisdl.louislibraries.org
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At first glance, rising life expectancy seems like a dull topic. When historians have talked about it at all, they have generally treated it peripherally, as the province of gerontologists or demographers. Yet the radical lengthening of global life expectancies over the past two centuries is of monumental importance.
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American Psychologist | psychclassics.yorku.ca

Lee J. Cronbach (1957)
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This article examines the marriage market of Argentine traditional families in the period spanning from 1900 to 1940, based on a sample of 550 marriages and the analysis of their social and cultural patterns.
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The practices of marriage and inheritance and the representation of kinship among the medieval nobility are often studied separately, despite the argument that changes in conceptions of kinship accompanied the evolution of family structures, property transmission systems, and political organization. This article combines the practical and ideological aspects of kinship by analyzing its meaning for the nobility in late-medieval Zeeland.
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American Psychiatric Association

Official announcement of Heinroth's appointment as Associate Professor for Mental Therapy at the University of Leipzig on Oct. 21, 1811.
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The remarrying man has attracted relatively little historiographical attention, both absolutely and particularly for the nineteenth century. Their motivations for marriage and experiences of courtship have been subsumed into wide generalizations, such as the sense that men with children had to remarry in order to evidence their masculinity and to obtain care for their children.
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The psychologist Timothy Leary (1920–1996), an iconic cultural figure in the United States in the 1960s and afterward, has received comparatively scant attention in the history of psychology. This may be due to perceptions that, after a major career shift centering around his experimentation with psychedelic substances and his subsequent dismissal from Harvard in 1963, Leary parted company with the field. While there are several good reasons to adopt this view, examination of his entire career as well as his intellectual ancestry reveals unacknowledged continuities, suggesting that a more prominent place be accorded to him in the history of psychology, as well as to the challenges he poses.
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The division between home and market has long been a key dimension of family life and shifts across the home/market boundary are important for both gender inequality and the family.
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Center for the History Psychology

The CHP collection is home to this teaching machine, patented by Sidney Pressey in 1928. Students press one of the four keys to respond to a multiple choice question viewed through a window on the device. When the machine is in "teaching mode," it will not advance to the next question until the student answers correctly.
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Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection / New York City -- Welfare Island
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Few medicines, in the history of pharmaceuticals, have been greeted with as much exultation as a green-and-white pill containing 20 milligrams of fluoxetine hydrochloride — the chemical we know as Prozac.
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BC Archives | B-00274
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NYPL: Sc 361.6-N | Issued by the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare
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Strongly influenced by the previous Meiji Civil Code that shaped people’s perceptions about the traditional Japanese family, postwar Japanese society has not fully guaranteed gender equality, and whether to legally allow the dual-surname system is one of the major legal and political debates in Japanese society.
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Childcare institutions have developed within social, cultural, and political contexts. Their historical trajectories are linked with nation-specific societal and political discourses. Thus, prevailing ideas about childcare and child-rearing are underpinned by theories and beliefs about parenting, the role of women in raising children, and the duties and functions of families and the nation state.
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J Delano | America from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1939-1945 LC-USF35-19
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In the light of some key concepts from the chastity codes described by anthropological research for honor societies in the Mediterranean region and the Middle East, this article examines the chastity code for women that the Spanish Renaissance humanist Juan Luis Vives (1492/3–1540) advocated in his work De institutione feminae Christianae (1524/1538).
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16th Street between Jackson and Lee Streets in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1937
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Cornell University Library | London, S. Sonnenschein and Co.
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The 40-year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act in 2010 brought a new notoriety to what was once an obscure dispute – the Ford sewing machinists’ strike of 1968.
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In May 1650 tragedy struck Sir John Conyers and his wife Maria de Pottere. Maria's nephew, Captain Henry Hume, an officer in the Dutch army, whom she had raised after the early death of her sister, died in the Dutch city of Delft, aged only 27.
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This article considers the unconventional and chimerical custom of women proposing to men during a leap year. Capturing the imagination of Americans from 1904 into the 1960s, shame and ridicule made it difficult for women to take advantage of the opportunity to propose to men. Critics held that women who asked men to marry them were desperate, aggressive, and unfeminine. Considering postcards, advertisements, and newspaper columns, this article concludes that the leap year tradition promised real power for courting women but ultimately delivered false empowerment and reinforced traditional courtship practices.
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Poster for the New York State Department of Health encouraging couples to take action to prevent syphilis in marriage.
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anxiety and exclusionary impulses that they engendered, leading them to be similarly exiled from nineteenth-century urban areas. They were uneasy â€neighbours’, however, with contemporary authorities condemning the proximity of cemeteries to asylums on medical and moral grounds.
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The vigour of a field of history is usually assessed by reference to the quality of its historiography. Its health may also be judged by its presence in the curricula of educational bodies, public interest, and the prevalence and robustness of journals and societies dedicated to it. This article employs these criteria, sometimes overlooked in diagnosis of the condition of labor history, to explore its predicament in Britain.
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This article uses coroners’ inquest findings, media such as newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and broadsides, and family correspondence (all drawn from Scotland and the north of England) as well as civil and criminal court records and medical and legal writings from both countries to explore perceptions of the link between state of mind and self-inflicted death.
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National Archives

In 1834 the British government introduced the Poor Law Amendment Act (the introduction of the 'Workhouse System'). This was one of the most important pieces of 19th century social legislation and it touched the lives of millions of ordinary men, women and children.
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Against a backdrop of ever more stringent anti-smoking legislation in Europe and in North America, China has crystallised as the only major market promising a bright future for the tobacco industry.
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In 1921 Ford’s complex knowledge base was brutally dismantled in Ford’s giant new River Rouge plant. Incremental productivity gains were now squeezed from the line by supervisory pressure. The Ford experience suggests the interweaving of â€sovereign’ and â€disciplinary’ forms of power/knowledge.
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This article uses familial correspondence to examine how bourgeois families conceived of marriage in the early nineteenth-century France. It argues that the companionate model of marriage, which was gaining influence during these years, did not replace the earlier model of the arranged marriage but rather was integrated into it.
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Death and fear of death in cases of puerperal insanity can be linked to a much broader set of anxieties surrounding childbirth in Victorian Britain.
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Lucy Burns, of New York City, who with Alice Paul established the first permanent headquarters for suffrage work in Washington, D.C., helped organize the suffrage parade of Mar. 3, 1913, and was one of the editors of The Suffragist. Leader of most of the picket demonstrations, she served more time in jail than any other suffragists in America. Arrested picketing June 1917, sentenced to 3 days; arrested Sept. 1917, sentenced to 60 days; arrested Nov. 10, 1917, sentenced to 6 months; in Jan. 1919 arrested at watchfire demonstrations, for which she served one 3 day and two 5 day sentences. She also served 4 prison terms in England. Burns was one of the speakers on the "Prison Special" tour of Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom
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Photograph of fourteen suffragists in overcoats on picket line, holding suffrage banners in front of the White House. One banner reads: "Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait For Liberty". White House visible in background.
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This article provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between gay men, community organisations and the medical profession between 1983 and 1985 in Australia, a period when the key features of that nation's HIV/AIDS public health policy were determined. It charts the continuing acceptance of a medical mode of understanding homosexual behaviour. The article uses a range of original sources to investigate the relationship and tensions between medical professionals and gay men.
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This article makes a new contribution to the discussion of historical European family forms. Its starting points are two recent contributions by Steven Ruggles in which the author discussed the historical appearances of stem and joint families across the globe. Drawing on most recent developments in census microdata infrastructure from historical Eastern, Central, and Southeastern Europe, the authors pinpoint limitations pertaining to the usage of IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) and NAPP (North Atlantic Population Project) collections for the investigation of European family systems.
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Dying insane provoked â€great fear, and apprehension’ in the minds of men and women. Death as a lunatic disrupted deathbed performance and rendered the victim incapable at law.
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The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938.
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Until the 19th century, people with mental illness were cared for by family members, who quietly attended to their needs in rural areas. But with the dawn of the Industrial Age, and its accompanying growth of crowded cities, many people feared people with mental illness were a threat to public safety.
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This article uses the population census of 1863 in order to compare relations between household size and household structure (according to Cambridge group typology), on one side, and the amount of household property per capita and household monthly income per capita, on the other.
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This article examines the management and meaning of post-mortem examinations, and the spatial ordering of patients’ death, dissection and burial at the Victorian asylum, referencing a range of institutional contexts and exploiting a case study of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
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Jeff James discusses the records that reveal the dreadful reality of life on board prison hulks for the men, women and children detained on them.
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Faced with strikes that shook the government during the French social crisis of 1968, French employers’ associations feared that the economic and political crisis would destabilize both firms and factories. Employers regarded the strike wave as a movement that could not be resolved by conventional collective bargaining but as a crisis that demanded a new social settlement.
Posted in History on 03/18/2012 | Link to this post on IFP


At the turn of the century, American Jews and prohibitionists viewed one another with growing suspicion. Jews believed that all Americans had the right to sell and consume alcohol, while prohibitionists insisted that alcohol commerce and consumption posed a threat to the nation’s morality and security. The two groups possessed incompatible visions of what it meant to be a productive and patriotic American—and in 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution made alcohol commerce illegal, Jews discovered that anti-Semitic sentiments had mixed with anti-alcohol ideology, threatening their reputation and their standing in American society.
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Colonial authorities prosecuted surprisingly few women for the crimes of abortion and infanticide in viceregal Mexico. Although criminal courts tried hundreds of such cases in the nineteenth century, only a handful of trials survive from Mexico’s colonial era.
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This paper aims to investigate and analyse the impact of the dowry and the endowment system on marriage and household patterns and on the labour market in 18th century Turin. At the same time it enquires into the reliability of the northern/southern Europe pattern for the study of this topic. Two points are developed.
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Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941] | LC-USZC2-5184 DLC

Poster promoting employer-sponsored blood tests for the detection of syphilis, showing a doctor drawing blood from a worker in an industrial setting.
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This essay examines the attempts by the Medical Women's Federation, founded in 1917, to challenge a medical narrative of menopausal malaise.
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This is the seventh article in our Centennial Series, as we count down to the Children's Bureau's 100th anniversary in April 2012. These articles address some of ... Children's Bureau
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Images from the History of Medicine | PP044723 WHO box 3
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This article looks more closely at the nineteenth-century British middle classes' use of rationalized, scientific knowledge in their daily lives, particularly in their attitudes toward food and cookery. This interest in analysis and fact had a long history.
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Images from the Hisoty of Medicine

People of Color Against AIDS / "Anyone can get AIDS. Find out how to prevent it. Call today."
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The body trade of anatomy schools in Victorian times that underpinned the expansion of medical education has been neglected. This article examines dissection records of insane paupers, sold to repay their welfare debt to society.
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History of Psychology Centre | British Psychological Society

Group print taken at a party held in the Maudsley on the occasion of the completion of the manuscript chapters of Hans Eysenck's ' Handbook of Abnormal Psychology' (1958)
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After the First World War, many politicians sought, and ultimately failed, to replace universal suffrage with familial suffrage in French elections. This article analyzes how this new effort to think of French citizens in terms of gender and familial identities extended to the empire with the 1922 introduction of familial suffrage in Tunisia. This reform redefined the relationship between French settlers and their government. It also shows that Tunisia, which has thus far been absent from the developing literature on settler citizenship in the empire, represents a particularly compelling case study of the intersection of gender and familial status with definitions of citizenship.
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While young couples in Western societies generally form a new household, in low-income societies new unions are often incorporated into existing households. However, there is a growing tendency in the nuclearization of households as intergenerational co-residence is undermined by growing wage labour opportunities that provide incentives for rural–urban migration and because small nuclear families adapt better to urban societies characterized by high geographic and social mobility.
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University of Illinois | HBHR-0006-0053-154

The immigrants who came to Chicago in the late 19th and early 20th centuries needed to live close to where they worked. They also preferred to live near relatives and friends who spoke their language and could help them adjust to city life. Many lived near the Chicago River, where Chicago's factories were located. Scattered poverty-stricken neighborhoods could be found in a wide path from Old Town on the North Side to the Black Belt area south of the Loop. Much of the housing in these areas had been hastily built after the 1871 Chicago Fire, when residents moved out from the city center seeking shelter.
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History of Psychology Center | British Psychological Society

Group black and white print of psychologists attending Clark University, Worcester MA USA Psychology Conference September 1909.
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This paper examines age at first marriage for women and spousal age gap as an indicator for female agency from 1950 to 2005.
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Vacationing in the Austrian Alps, Freud thanks Jung for defending his ideas at a conference in Amsterdam. Freud tells Jung that he is better fitted for propaganda because all hearts open to you.
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As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and the world—overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis.
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The history of housing policy in Berkeley over the past thirty-five years provides a case study in the limits that state government can place on local government efforts to increase social equity.

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Using a combination of brief case studies and statistical analysis of probate disputes in eighteenth-century England, this article argues for an expanded interpretation of Georgian family life—an interpretation that understands the tugs and pulls of siblinghood. In the eighteenth century, emerging ideas about social equality based on idealized siblinghood tangled with engrained family hierarchies to produce messy, constantly shifting, sibling politics.
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The social welfare forum. Official proceedings [of the] annual meeting. National Conference on Social Welfare., National Conference of Social Work (U.S.), National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), Conference of Charities (U.S.), Conference of Boards of Public Charities (U.S.), American Social Science Association. New York [etc.]: , 1901 | University of Michigan Library
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BC Archives: F-04737
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Sigmund Freud Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)

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In 1954, an exasperated woman announced that â€If I were a man, I should immediately marry a capable woman, preferably a nurse, and all my troubles would be solved!’
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State Historical Society of Missouri / Research Center-St. Louis
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In the early seventeenth century, a young gentlewoman living in the household of the Countess of Huntingdon suffered what we might now call a mental breakdown. The trigger seems innocuous: she could not afford a New Year's gift for her ladyship, and feigned illness.

In the early seventeenth century, a young gentlewoman living in the household of the Countess of Huntingdon suffered what we might now call a mental breakdown. The trigger seems innocuous: she could not afford a New Year's gift for her ladyship, and feigned illness.
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The attempt to ascertain the form and nature of familial age support in the past or, what comes to the same thing, the real degree of dependence or independence of the elderly vis-&-vis their families, relatives, and close ones, has led to a huge controversy among historians.
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When Jung was studying medicine at the University of Basel (18951899), he attended seances with a cousin who appeared to be taken over by deceased personalities who communicated through her details of their previous lives. In his dissertation, submitted to the medical faculty of the University of Zurich and published in 1902, Jung attempted to treat these seances in a scientific manner as furnishing an explanation of the as yet extremely controversial psychology of the unconscious. Jung retained a life-long interested in parapsychology, the discipline concerned with investigating events and knowledge that cannot be accounted for by scientific evidence.
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Kirkbride Buildings

In 1867 the Ohio Legislature appointed a commission to find a site for an asylum in south-eastern Ohio. A site in Athens was found suitable. Construction began in 1867 and the Athens Lunatic Asylum was completed during 1874
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In this article I seek to relate the psychology of Carl Jung to sociological theory, specifically Weber. I first present an outline of Jungian psychology. I then seek to relate this as psychology to Weber’s interpretivism. I point to basic methodological compatibilities within a Kantian frame, from which emerge central concerns with the factors limiting rationality.
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U.S. teachers have long been neglected in the history of education in spite of their important roles in education. Clifford calls this neglect a “virtual invisibility of teachers.”1 Hence, it is not surprising to encounter immense difficulty in tracing the social class origins of teachers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This task is of great importance, however, because it allows one to understand the circumstances surrounding the individuals that entered the profession, to speculate on the quality of teaching, and to form an idea about class bias, intentional or not, inculcated by teachers in classrooms.
Posted in History on 02/07/2012 | Link to this post on IFP
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Significance: Established in 1935, the Rabideau Civilian Conservation Corps Camp is historically significant for its association with the social, political, and economic impact of the Great Depression and the unprecedented federal response which lead to the establishment of the CCC, generally considered the New Deal's most popular and successful relief program. The camp is also important for its role in the expansion and development of the Chippewa National Forest during the Depression Era. In addition, the camp is architecturally significant as the most intact CCC camp in the United States. The complex of buildings surviving at the site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Using a combination of census data and aggregated divorce statistics, this study investigates how socio-economic conditions influenced the risk of divorce among men in different occupations during the 1920s and 1930s in Sweden.
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American social worker. President & organizer of Public Health Nursing; suggested Federal Children's Bureau
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