“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
2,200 Radical Political Posters Digitized
A Fleeting Utopia: The Rise and Fall of the “Women’s Hotel” in American Cities
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 2 (1814–38): ‘Insanity cured’
A history of survival: preserving and working with an archive of single parent activism
Edward Trautner (1890–1978), a pioneer of psychopharmacology
‘A very sensitive Rwandan woman’: sexual violence, history, and gendered narratives in the trial of Pauline Nyiramasuhuko at the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda, 2001-2011
Reflections from pioneering women in psychology by Jamila Bookwala, Nicky J. Newton(Eds.), Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 366. $39.99 (ebook). ISBN: 9781108891004
The book history of Rona M. Fields’s A Society on the Run (1973): A case study in the alleged suppression of psychological research on Northern Ireland
Abstract
The US psychologist Rona M. Field’s book A Society on the Run (1973) offered a psychological account of the nature and effects of the Northern Irish Troubles at their peak in the early 1970s. The book was withdrawn shortly after publication by its publisher, Penguin Books Limited, and never reissued. Fields alleged publicly that the book had been suppressed by the British state, a claim that has often been treated uncritically. Local Northern Irish psychologists suggested that the book was taken off the market because of its scientific deficiencies. Rigorous book-historical investigation using Penguin editorial fields reveals, however, that what might appear to be a case of state suppression, or an instance of disciplinary boundary work, can be explained instead by the commercial interests and professional standards of a publisher keen to preserve its reputation for quality and reliability.
Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence: global perspectives from the modern world
From forced to coerced labour: displaced mothers and teen girls in post-World War II Australia
Communist psychology in Argentina: Transnional politics, scientific culture, and psychotherapy (1935‐1991) Luciano Nicolás García Springer. 2022. pp. 208. $109 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐15620‐5
Remedies for the housewife’s nervousness: Life advice in Abraham Myerson’s popular self‐help texts, 1920–1930
The Patriarchs: The origins of inequality
Dangerous liaisons, or strategies for family management in eighteenth-century Venice
‘Facts that are declared proven’: sexual violence, forensic medicine, and the courtroom in early Francoist Spain.
Six Historic New England Diners
You may not find a better example of the 2,000 diners made by the Jerry O’Mahony Co. than the Makris Midtown Diner in Wethersfield, Conn. The O’Mahony company churned out diners in Elizabeth, N.J., until 1941.
Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United State. By Georgina Hickey
Savers and Borrowers in the Swedish Working Class During the 19th Century—A Life Cycle Perspective
British criminology, undercover policing, and racist attacks: Notes on the ‘law and order’ information infrastructure
Look Inside Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara
PBS Hawaiʻi documentary features social activist UH’s McElrath
Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal
Antipsychotic Drugs: A Concise Review of History, Classification, Indications, Mechanism, Efficacy, Side Effects, Dosing, and Clinical Application
The Influence of Clan Culture on the Demand for Family Commercial Health Insurance: The Case of China
Journal of Family History, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the reasons for the underdevelopment of commercial health insurance as a family risk-sharing mechanism, from the viewpoint of traditional Chinese clan culture. Using genealogical data to create city-level indicators of clan culture, this study investigates its impact on the demand for family-oriented commercial health insurance. The results indicate a negative correlation between the intensity of clan culture and the demand for family commercial health insurance, and a smaller percentage of income allocated to health insurance premiums in areas with stronger clan culture. This crowding-out effect primarily occurs through bilateral transfer payments encouraged by mutual aid among clan members.
The Cosmopolitans: Cocktail Culture, Gender, and Social Status in Interwar Singapore
Abstract
This article explores the emergence of cocktail culture in interwar Singapore. Mixed alcoholic drinks were consumed by British men in Singapore from at least the 1910s, including the famous “Singapore Sling.” However, it was not until the 1920s that cocktails became the drink of choice for elite men and women from Singapore’s Chinese, British, and Eurasian communities. The consumption of American popular culture and exchange with American colonists in the Philippines helped the cocktail to become a symbol of tropical modernity. At the same time, the possibilities of home entertaining were transformed by the increasing availability of American-made domestic refrigerators in Singapore from the mid-1920s. Multiethnic elites, accustomed to frequenting bars and cafés to enjoy cocktails, began to host their own cocktail parties with the help of their Chinese servants. The interwar cocktail party offered the wealthy a means to display conspicuous consumption and cosmopolitan modernity. They did so in a way that unsettled but did not overturn colonial hierarchies based on gender, race, and class.
‘It is a kind of marriage’: When Denmark held the first ever same-sex civil unions
There are fragments of Romani Gypsy history all over the UK – if one knows where to look
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From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California
The Dover Mill girls walk out in America’s 1st women’s strike
“Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired”: Inequality, Disease, and Death in American History
Safe Sex and the Debate over Condoms on Campus in the 1980s: Sperm Busters at Harvard and Protection Connection at the University of Texas at Austin
“Longing and Hope and Sadness and Anger”: Disentangling the Social and the Human
Childhood in the Jewish History of Southern Ukraine in 1919–1920: Family Experience of Violence during the Pogroms
Journal of Family History, Ahead of Print.
The article focuses on how the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1919–1920 affected Jewish children through the lens of family history. It explores demographic data and factors that influenced children and families in Southern Ukraine during that period. The article attempts to reconstruct the children’s experience through their parents’ testimonies and the memories of individuals who endured the anti-Jewish pogroms during childhood. It also analyzes how the experience of the anti-Jewish pogroms has transformed in historical memory and its current influence on public opinion.