The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination
Radical sex role ideology and the Finnish gender role movement in the late 1960s
Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach
Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School. Above: Max Horkheimer (center left), Theodor Adorno (center right), and Jürgen Habermas (far right) at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology in Heidelberg, 1964.
Vasectomy in Interwar Europe: From Medical to Political Practices
Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology
Psychoanalysis and the Family in Twentieth-Century France: Françoise Dolto and Her Legacy
Beyond the monograph: New forms of historical scholarship
‘For Men Only:’ Sexual Health Education, Neurasthenia and the Modern YMCA in the Gilded Age
Rich Hairdressers and Fancy Car Repairmen: The Rise of a Service Worker Elite in the USSR and the Evolution of Soviet Society in the 1970s
President LBJ Wrestled With Social Justice, War, and Unrest. His Legacy Is Still Relevant
The Roles of Black Folk? W. E. B. Du Bois’s Peace Advocacy and Its Legacy
Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
“A serial killer of civilisations”: a history of climate change
Changes in the South Korean academic labor market and labor struggle
Saving ‘Ireland’s children’: voluntary action, gender, humanitarianism, and the Irish White Cross, 1921–1947
W.E.B. Du Bois’s In Battle for Peace: Historical and Political Perspectives
How Alcoholics Anonymous got started in Manchester, VT
Pauper Auction
Rediscovering Social Work Leaders: Barbara Finlayson Part 2/2
Jean Monet Sleeping: Medicalisation, Dreams and Transitional Objects
Gender, race, and the status of household labour in Lucy Maynard Salmon’s Domestic Service (1897)
A Brief History of American Socialism
Lit Hub
Women at the barricades
Could Nightingale get cancelled? The rise, endurance, and possible fall of Florence Nightingale in British historical culture since 1854
Rediscovering Social Work Leaders: Barbara Finlayson Part 1/2
Recalling UCLA Social Welfare’s ‘finest moment’
Volunteers from UCLA answered calls from distressed citizens on phones that were normally used during KCET-TV’s pledge drives. Joe Nunn (center, in jacket and tie), now a UCLA professor emeritus, was among those who participated.
Ethics by Committee: A History of Reasoning Together About Medicine, Science, Society, and the State
Mapping the Household State: Treatment of Disobedient Children in Early Modern Denmark and Sweden
Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
Do you have to have sex to have sex? Defining sex in British law and medicine from the 1950s
Medicare’s Histories: Origins Omissions, and Opportunities in Canada
How Silence Became “Outdated”: Secrecy, Anonymity and Artificial Insemination by Donor in Belgium, 1950s-1990s
Women, Work, and Activism: Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century
Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
Jacob Riis’s Happy Valley
New England Historical Society
To “Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize”: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930
One woman’s six-word mantra that has helped to calm millions
Dr. Claire Weekes distilled her understanding of ‘nervous illness’ into a six-word mantra for overcoming anxiety: face, accept, float, let time pass.
Workers of the empire, unite: radical and popular challenges to British imperialism, 1910s-1960s
Mad by the millions: Mental disorders and the early years of the World Health Organization
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)
“An illicit and criminal intercourse”: adultery and marital breakdown in the slaveholding South
Feminist avenues for listening in: amplifying silenced histories of media and communication
Mental Hygiene in Interwar Germany: Public Health Films Between Science and Superstition
A 1960s Christmas
Making paper chains for Christmas at school
Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt
Towards a History of the Questionnaire
Terrestrial Enlightenment: Ruin and Revolution in an Eighteenth-Century Climate Crisis
Hermann Rorschach’s (1884–1922) Clinical and Scientific Work as a Psychiatrist in Russia
Blue Stockings Society
Thomas Rowlandson’s caricature of a bluestocking salon descending into chaos in the absence of male guardianship