Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.
Photo: Library of Congress
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Civil Rights Era
Work, marriage, and childbearing trajectories in Derbyshire, 1881–1911
Getting by or getting on: gender, intergenerational earning and caring in deindustrialising localities in Lanarkshire, Scotland
Historical Background and Development of Social Security
On January 31, 1940, the first monthly retirement check was issued to Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont, in the amount of $22.54. Miss Fuller, a Legal Secretary, retired in November 1939. She started collecting benefits in January 1940 at age 65 and lived to be 100 years old, dying in 1975.
Historicising domestic abuse in Australia 1850–2020: how useful is new language for describing an old problem?
An Examination of Cultural Transformation in Türkiye After 1980 in the Context of “Neoliberal Governmentality”
Unheard Stories of Route 66: African American Experiences of Mobility, Exclusion, and Resilience
“He agreed to take in both children and committed to caring for and educating them” social work reports on fathers in Mandatory Palestine
Relics of the past and symbols of modernity: the cultural practices of coal mining communities in post-war Britain
Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India
Intergenerational mobility across nine generations: Evidence from Poland, 1800–1984
Bodies of Evidence A History of Rape Kit Protocols in US Emergency Nursing and Global Humanitarian Medicine
When Healing Harms: The Doctor Who Put a Hospital on Trial—and the Case That Shook Psychiatry
When Healing Harms excavates the long-buried story behind one of the most consequential—and most misunderstood—malpractice cases in modern psychiatry and surfaces its impact that persists to this day. Drawing on thousands of pages of court transcripts, medical files, legal archives, hundreds of letters, video testimony, and interviews, Eric Caplan provides the definitive account of how a world-renowned psychiatric hospital failed a patient in crisis, and how the story of that failure has been obscured and misrepresented for more than four decades. The result is a revelatory examination of how psychiatry confronted its limitations—and unwittingly gave rise to a system that has failed seriously ill patients even more than the one Osheroff fought to change.
What the Middle Ages can teach us about preventing burnout
The history of the NHS
From Psychologia Anthropologica to Psychotherapeutics: A Reconstruction of the Development of the Idea of Medical Psychology From the 16th to the 19th Century
National security discourse, excluding operation mechanisms, and resistance of homosexual federal employees during the Lavender Scare
The Orphan Trains: The movement that brought hundreds of New York orphans to Louisiana communities
Bedlam: A Novel
NHS reform timeline
On the prowl for disciplinary vassals: Neurologists, psychiatrists, and clinical psychologists discuss science, technology, and profession at the National Research Council’s Conference on Relations of Psychiatry to Psychology (1921).
‘Domestic tyranny’ and ‘petty despotism’: historicising coercive control in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Australia
Coercive control is far from a new, or even newly recognised, issue. Indeed, Australian authors and wives criticised patriarchal control and authority in marriage from as early as 1880, spotlighting the extensive and intricate ways husbands degraded and destroyed their wives’ resilience and ability to leave a marriage. Taking myriad forms, their writings range from the domestic-realist novels of Rosa Praed and Ada Cambridge to the editorials and short stories of Louisa Lawson and the divorce petitions of wives who framed their experiences as legal cruelty.
“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology
The 1965 “Gloria Films,” Then and Now
The self and the limitations of the intellect: Jung’s epistemological synthesis of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Kant.
Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University: A Social History of the First Amendment in the Struggle for Equality
Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century
Privileges for Radical Social Service: The Careers of Three Doctors From Tokyo Imperial University
“Go and Live Together Again and Try to be Happy”: Gender, Class, and Race in Marital Disputes in the British Police Courts, 1870–1940
‘It is to be assumed that members of C. na m Ban cannot be kept out of such a body!’: women, Irish republicanism, and prisoner support work 1939–45
The historical consensus on Cumann na mBan, Ireland’s republican women’s organisation, suggests that by the period of the Second World War (or Emergency as it was known in independent Ireland) it was largely inactive. This article explores the organisation’s activity in this period, framing it as part of the group’s post-revolutionary afterlife. Through consideration of Cumann na mBan’s records, state records from the Department of Justice and newspaper material this article considers the work of Cumann na mBan and other republican women in support of prisoners and their dependents.
Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century
How the old workhouse system became the new workhouse system: a case study of Hampshire in the 1830s
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The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia’s New York. By Shannon King
The James–Lange theory of emotions: A misnomer we should abandon.
Early Daoism: Between Primitive Daoism and Institutional Daoism—A Potential Historiographical Framework for Daoism
1968: A Spinster’s Life | Man Alive
The history of the third sector in Portugal: Solidarity, repression and rebirth
Propaganda poster for the week of Mutualism, December 26, 1932.
How a childhood bookmobile sparked my love of reading
When I was a child, the public library in my small Alabama town, a one-story frame building that had once been the train depot, was off-limits to me. This was the early 1960s, more than a decade before the schools were integrated and “public” buildings became accessible to all. As Black children, my siblings and I could only use the bookmobile that arrived during the summer months and parked in front of our community’s elementary school.
The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, Resistance Fighters and Firebrands
Monstrous Conceptions: A History of Race, Disability, and Reproductive Medicine in the United States
Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia
Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press
The Creation and Development of the Social Work Profession
A social worker at Ellis Island, 1926.
American charities and social work
A History of the English Poor Law Volume I
Introduction: The Roots of US Social Work
Settlement houses reflected a different type of organizational response to the impact of industrialization and immigration and introduced an alternative model of a social service agency a form of urban mission. The first US settlement, the Neighborhood Guild in New York City, was established in 1886. Three years later, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr (above) founded Hull House in Chicago, which became the most famous American settlement.
A People’s History of London
Applying contemporary understandings of financial abuse to women’s experiences of marital violence in colonial South Australia, 1859–1893
Financial abuse is a central component of domestic violence. Often difficult to disentangle from other forms of domestic violence, its complex and near invisible nature can allow it to go undetected by those experiencing it and by the legal system alike. Historicising financial abuse is a delicate and challenging task, but it is essential for a few reasons.
Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: a history for the present
Migrants, Violence, and Discrimination in Early Modern Holland
