History (4,555 posts)

The Senator and the Sting Operation: Politics, the Media, and Frank Moss’s Exposé of “Medicaid Mills”

Best-Laid Plans: The Promises and Pitfalls of the New Deal’s Greenbelt Towns

Pleasure and Panic: New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs

To Be Seen: Queer Lives 1900–1950

The Fire Still Burns: Life In and After Residential School

Remembering Juan Ramos, Puerto Rican Activist & Leader of Philadelphia Young Lords

Precarious Workers: History of Debates, Political Mobilization, and Labor Reforms in Italy

Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War

The Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936 are follow-up studies of the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947

The Campus Right’s Long War on Free Speech

Members of Young Americans for Freedom ride in a vehicle as they participate in the Loyalty Day Parade in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1966.

In ‘town full of writers,’ Jane Addams biographer Louise Knight stands out

Jane Addams circa 1891

Triumph and Solidarity: BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression

Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era. By Emily Marker

The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980

The Townsend Plan’s Pension Scheme

This research note discusses in some detail the economic problems with the very popular Old-Age Revolving Pension Plan (aka the Townsend Plan promoted and publicized by Dr. Francis E. Townsend (above)) of the 1930’s.

The Varieties of Psychedelic Expertise in 1960s Canada: The Psychiatrists behind the Addiction Research Foundation’s Study of LSD Therapy

Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

The abolition of poor law guardians (1906)

Desperate remedies: Psychiatry’s turbulent quest to cure mental illnessAndrew ScullHarvard University Press,2022.512 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674265103

Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II–Era New York City

Historicizing “therapeutic culture”—Towards a material and polycentric history of psychologization

Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America

After the madhouses: the emotional politics of psychiatry and community care in the UK tabloid press 1980–1995

Peer-to-peer counselling and emotional guidance on infertility in Britain and Belgium (1970s–1980s)

Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers

Troublemakers: Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s

Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919-1952. By Jennifer Anne Boittin

Childhood growth and socioeconomic outcomes in early adulthood evidence from the inter-war United States

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Stonewall Uprising (full documentary) | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS

Tax Me If You Can (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

Goin’ Back To T-Town (full documentary) | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqZVzUeu_oE

Early-life conditions, height and mortality of nineteenth-century Dutch vagrant women

The History of John Howard and the Howard League

The Routledge History of Queer America

How Capitalism Remade Homophobia

The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919

The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain

After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Plains, 1900–1960

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Eugene Debs Was an American Hero

Jacobin | National Archives

On June 16, 1918, Debs delivered his famous Canton speech — “The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles” — which would eventually land him in federal prison. He would remain there until Christmas morning 1921.