Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty‐First Century
Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850–1890s
Stories of change: the Social Work Oral History Institute
Just Like Any Other Worker? Class and Gender in the Regulation of Domestic Service in the Early Soviet Period
The politicization of girlhood: from the Gibson girl to the National Woman’s Party, 1895–1920
UNI professor’s research behind push to honor Black Chicago social services pioneer
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An undated picture of Ada S. McKinley from the website of Ada S. McKinley Community Services in Chicago.
Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon
The American Road: Highways and American Political Development, 1891–1956
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution. By David Paul Kuhn
Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93
History of school social work
Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State
A ‘forgettable minority’? Psychiatric Institutions and the Intellectually Disabled in Ireland, 1965–84
Potions, pills, and patents: How basic healthcare became big business in America
The Family as a Locus of Illness: Secrecy, Suffering, and Institutional Practices
BASW Heritage Project Video
Charity, debt and social control in England’s early modern prisons
Our Rich History: Bob Berger and the Social Work program at Thomas More College
Northern Kentucky Tribune | Thomas More University Archives
Professor Robert “Bob” Berger
LGBT+ history: the bold, very British resistance to section 28
In 1987, a survey indicated that 64% of the British public thought that homosexuality was always wrong. The legislative response was section 28, which said local authorities shall not “intentionally promote homosexuality”.
The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s
The Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode It
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Jeremy Bentham and Australia Convicts, utility and empire
Plague Hospitals, Poverty and the Provision of Medical Care in France, c. 1450–c.1650
Bedlam in the New World A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment
In the heart of the Lesbian Nation: Iowa City, Iowa, and the building of a lesbian community
Dutch women and the Lesbian International
‘Their proper place’: women, work and the marriage bar in independent Ireland, c. 1924–1973
The women’s peace camp at Comiso, 1983: transnational feminism and the anti-nuclear movement
No Coming Back to Sick Society: The Emergence of New Drug User Segment in the Järvenpää Social Hospital in Finland, 1965–1975
“Let Us Vote!” Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment
Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region
History of ideas: The love story story
A group you’ve likely never heard of has been helping Rochester for a remarkable 200 years
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Gathered at the home of Chloe Porter Peck, the women formed the Rochester Female Charitable Society. Its goal, as would be stated in its constitution, was “the relief of indigent persons and families in cases of sickness and suffering.” It also hoped to open a school.
A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year
A serious plan for “levelling up” would look back to the original Levellers
Psychiana Man: A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times
Bandits, Brigands and Militants: The Historical Sociology of Outlaws
‘My Husband … is an Authentic Psychopath’: Spanish Civil War Veterans, Mental Illness and the Francoist Regime
The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children’s Intelligence
A History of Women in Men’s Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment
Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Healthcare in Canada
A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan
Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America
Sickness in the Workhouse Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia
Coming of Age in Postwar Germany: Young Women’s Search for New Emotional Subjectivities, 1946–50
Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin
When Rollo May’s “little band” of New York psychologists fought back against organized medicine’s attempts to control psychotherapy.
The dropout: a history
R D Laing (right) attends a discussion on the legalisation of marijuana in London in 1967.
Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning
