The Spartan mother in America: 1865–1900
Psychedelic Marxism: The Ecstatic States of the Body in the White Panther Party around 1970
Unravelling National Time: Chinese Voices and the Re-ordering of Australian History
Between obedience and resistance: transforming the role of pupil councils and pupil organisations in Sweden (1928–1989)
Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka
‘A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders’, by Alexander H Leighton (1950)
History of Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
The Classic Text is an outline of the Stirling County Study as conceptualized by Alexander H Leighton. It was first presented at a conference held in 1949 organized by the Milbank Memorial Fund, an American philanthropic foundation. The meeting brought together 30–40 experts from across North America. Leighton succinctly explained his frame of reference for the epidemiology of mental disorders and the methodology of the community-based study he conducted in Nova Scotia. The introduction to the text explains contextual points, certain specificities of Leighton’s framework, and the discussions that surrounded it, largely dominated by a group of Harvard professors, including Erich Lindemann and John E Gordon.
War, Women, and Sex Work in Occupied Istanbul, 1918–1923
Why Us Too? Japanese Views of Immigration and Racial Exclusion in Australia
Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II
Situating love and loss: making a film, re-making a world
Origins of the Minneapolis Homeless Shelter Movement
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People without housing in St. Stephen’s Church, Minneapolis. Photo by Minneapolis Tribune photographer Mike Zerby taken on July 2, 1982.
Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue
Nineteenth-century narratives of addiction: Relational harm and the child as witness
‘Wundt’s work is merely an incident in one of the challenging scholarly careers on recent history’: The media and academic reception of Völkerpsychologie, 1900–1920
History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
Wundt’s Völkerpsychologie (VP) is an exceptional case in the history of psychology. Outlined in 1863 in the second volume of Vorlesungen über Menschen- und Thierseele (Lectures on the Human and Animal Soul), VP was finally published 37 years later in 10 volumes during the last 20 years of the author’s life. The work was characterized by an ambitious program of multimethod and transdisciplinary research. This article explores the intellectual and contextual reasons for the early successes and failures of VP. We analyzed n = 264 articles published in the German press and n = 220 books, reviews, and articles published in scientific journals that explicitly cited the 10 volumes between 1900 and 1920. VP received considerable criticism from linguists and philologists, who claimed that its results were of little practical use for their research. The first volumes of VP were criticized for their abstract character and psychological indifferentism; on the other hand, positive reviews emphasized their attempt to systematize and give a philosophical order to the individual investigations of philology, linguistics, comparative history, religious studies, and so on. The normative-methodological role that VP tried to play in relation to the other historical sciences was significantly criticized, and this was a determining factor in its diminishing impact over time. Some of Wundt’s hypotheses were philosophically at odds with the project of German cultural imperialism that was being developed at the time and with which most of his intellectual enemies agreed.
Disrupting the Reproductive Lives of Japanese American Families During Wartime: The Overlapping Histories of Removal, Incarceration, and Eugenic Sterilization, 1942–1946
On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory
When social provision became a bordering practice: The association ‘assistance to redeemed Italy’ and children’s welfare in Italy’s northeastern borderlands, 1919-1939
Childhood, Ahead of Print.
This article axplores children’s welfare in Italy’s northeastern borderlands after WWI. Using the case of a semi-public aid association “Assistenza all’Italia Redenta” (Assistance to Redeemed Italy), the author examines children’s welfare before and after the installation of the fascist regime. She focuses in particular on preschools as a vital source of sociomedical and educational assistance to children in this mutlilingual and multiethnic region. But this assistance came with a quid pro quo, for children recieved it on condition that they learn the Italian language. The article thus explores how social welfare may be instrumentalized for nationalist purposes in borderland regions marked by cultural and national diversity.
HMT Empire Windrush
HMT Empire Windrush became synonymous with the voyage it completed in 1948, transporting hundreds of West Indians and people from other countries via the Caribbean to England. In the years that passed since its journey, the people who disembarked from this ship began new lives, with many choosing to stay in the UK and form new roots far away from home.
Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres
In the Company of Radical Women Writers
The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
The Paradoxical Development of Liberal Governance: International Adoption Policy and Professional Social Work in Authoritarian South Korea, 1953–1976
Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics
The ‘Predelinquent’ and the Community: Psychiatric Surveillance and Predictive Policing in Interwar Berkeley
Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore
Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century
Revolutionaries, coercive institutions and the crisis of collaboration in interwar India
From liberation to rights: the organized men’s movement in Norway, 1978–1980
Understanding living alone among the young- and middle-aged in China (1990-2010): A gender perspective
1940 Britain: Life in the Blitz
The Russian peasant family in the twentieth century: a structural-typological and dynamic analysis
California and the politics of disability, 1850–1970
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
“Nerves Need Nourishment”: Advertising Phospho-Energon Pills in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden
‘That was the greatest day of all our lives’: The migrants who passed through Ellis Island
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A youthful obsession with Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother turns to frustration over how its subject, Florence Owens Thompson, an Indigenous woman, has been misperceived. Above: Left: Migrant Mother outtake, 1936. [Dorothea Lange, U.S. Farm Security Administration via Library of Congress]. Right: Dorothea Lange’s notes on visiting the Nipomo Pea Picking Camp: “The peas represent a crop valued at 1-1/2 million dollars and are shipped to all parts of the country,” 1936.
2,200 Radical Political Posters Digitized: A New Archive
Unforgivable An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad
Drag: A British History
A History of Public Health in Alberta, 1919-2019
Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State
Bound Labor In The Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia
Politics and the People Scotland, 1945-1979
A Brief History of the Most Famous Swear Word in the World
Histories – A Century of the Rights of the Child: From the Geneva Declaration to the UN Convention
Coalfield Justice: The 1984-85 Miners’ Strike in Scotland
10 of the Best Books on the History of American Labor
‘Childless cat ladies’ have long contributed to the welfare of American children − and the nation
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Social reformer Katharine Bement Davis, right, wrote that she ‘had a good deal to do in the way of looking after other people’s husbands and children.’
Talcott Parsons on building personality system theory via psychoanalysis
‘There not being any place to keep her’: Incarcerating Women in Nineteenth-Century Western Australia
itchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
The Fremantle Gaol, known as the Roundhouse overlooked the small settlement of Fremantle in 1832. Panorama of the Swan River Settlement, Jane Eliza Currie, 1830-1832