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History (3,934 posts)

The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination

Posted in: History on 02/01/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Radical sex role ideology and the Finnish gender role movement in the late 1960s

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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.

Posted in: History on 01/31/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Vasectomy in Interwar Europe: From Medical to Political Practices

Posted in: History on 01/30/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology

Posted in: History on 01/29/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Psychoanalysis and the Family in Twentieth-Century France: Françoise Dolto and Her Legacy

Posted in: History on 01/28/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Beyond the monograph: New forms of historical scholarship

Posted in: History on 01/28/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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‘For Men Only:’ Sexual Health Education, Neurasthenia and the Modern YMCA in the Gilded Age

Posted in: History on 01/27/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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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

Posted in: History on 01/26/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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President LBJ Wrestled With Social Justice, War, and Unrest. His Legacy Is Still Relevant

Posted in: History on 01/26/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Roles of Black Folk? W. E. B. Du Bois’s Peace Advocacy and Its Legacy

Posted in: History on 01/25/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

Posted in: History on 01/24/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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“A serial killer of civilisations”: a history of climate change

Posted in: History on 01/24/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Changes in the South Korean academic labor market and labor struggle

Posted in: History on 01/23/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Saving ‘Ireland’s children’: voluntary action, gender, humanitarianism, and the Irish White Cross, 1921–1947

Posted in: History on 01/22/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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W.E.B. Du Bois’s In Battle for Peace: Historical and Political Perspectives

Posted in: History on 01/21/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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How Alcoholics Anonymous got started in Manchester, VT

Posted in: History on 01/20/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Pauper Auction

Posted in: History on 01/17/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Rediscovering Social Work Leaders: Barbara Finlayson Part 2/2

Posted in: History on 01/16/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Jean Monet Sleeping: Medicalisation, Dreams and Transitional Objects

Posted in: History on 01/15/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Gender, race, and the status of household labour in Lucy Maynard Salmon’s Domestic Service (1897)

Posted in: History on 01/14/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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A Brief History of American Socialism

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Posted in: History on 01/13/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Women at the barricades

Posted in: History on 01/12/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Could Nightingale get cancelled? The rise, endurance, and possible fall of Florence Nightingale in British historical culture since 1854

Posted in: History on 01/11/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Rediscovering Social Work Leaders: Barbara Finlayson Part 1/2

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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.

Posted in: History on 01/10/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Ethics by Committee: A History of Reasoning Together About Medicine, Science, Society, and the State

Posted in: History on 01/09/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Mapping the Household State: Treatment of Disobedient Children in Early Modern Denmark and Sweden

Posted in: History on 01/08/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present

Posted in: History on 01/07/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Do you have to have sex to have sex? Defining sex in British law and medicine from the 1950s

Posted in: History on 01/06/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Medicare’s Histories: Origins Omissions, and Opportunities in Canada

Posted in: History on 01/06/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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How Silence Became “Outdated”: Secrecy, Anonymity and Artificial Insemination by Donor in Belgium, 1950s-1990s

Posted in: History on 01/05/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Women, Work, and Activism: Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century

Posted in: History on 01/05/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History

Posted in: History on 01/04/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Jacob Riis’s Happy Valley

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Posted in: History on 01/03/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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To “Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize”: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930

Posted in: History on 01/02/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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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. 

Posted in: History on 01/01/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Workers of the empire, unite: radical and popular challenges to British imperialism, 1910s-1960s

Posted in: History on 12/31/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Mad by the millions: Mental disorders and the early years of the World Health Organization

Posted in: History on 12/30/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

Posted in: History on 12/29/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)

Posted in: History on 12/28/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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“An illicit and criminal intercourse”: adultery and marital breakdown in the slaveholding South

Posted in: History on 12/27/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Feminist avenues for listening in: amplifying silenced histories of media and communication

Posted in: History on 12/26/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Mental Hygiene in Interwar Germany: Public Health Films Between Science and Superstition

Posted in: History on 12/25/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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A 1960s Christmas

Making paper chains for Christmas at school

 

Posted in: History on 12/24/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt

Posted in: History on 12/23/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Towards a History of the Questionnaire

Posted in: History on 12/22/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Terrestrial Enlightenment: Ruin and Revolution in an Eighteenth-Century Climate Crisis

Posted in: History on 12/21/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Hermann Rorschach’s (1884–1922) Clinical and Scientific Work as a Psychiatrist in Russia

Posted in: History on 12/20/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Blue Stockings Society

Thomas Rowlandson’s caricature of a bluestocking salon descending into chaos in the absence of male guardianship

Posted in: History on 12/19/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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