The Empire of Depression: A New History
Happy 150th to York’s ‘Einstein of the welfare state’
Social reformer: Seebohm Rowntree
Beveridge on idleness
Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia: From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin
Deinstitutionalization Through Optimism: The Community Mental Health Act of 1963
The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America
All the Single Ladies: Women-Only Buildings in Early 20th-Century New York
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Completed in 1906, the Trowmart picked up on the ideas put into practice at the Martha Washington and, for the first time, provided accommodation for the working-class girl without the strict rules of a “Moral Home.”
The past, present, and future of western alienation
The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence
Devolved psychiatries – Professor Rab Houston
The Promise and Demise of LSD Psychotherapy in Norway
Normal enough? Krafft-Ebing, Freud, and homosexuality
In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Spring, Arkansas, 1890-1940 Elliott Bowen
In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Spring, Arkansas, 1890-1940, BowenElliott, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 218. $49.95. ISBN 9781421438566.
Melancholia Scytharum: the early modern psychiatry of transgender identification
Child Labor/Child Welfare
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Child welfare is an all encompassing term covering a broad swath of American social welfare initiatives, policies programs and organizations concerned with child labor, orphans, foster care, child abuse, child care and elementary education.
Poorhouses Were Designed to Punish People for Their Poverty
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Homeless men coming for shelter in 19th century London.
Shame and silences: children’s emotional experiences of insecurity and violence in postwar Finnish families
American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century
Reconsidering Paul Meehl’s disciplinary legacy
Reframing the History of the Competition Concept: Neoliberalism, Meritocracy, Modernity
“So delightful a temporary home”: The Material Culture of Domesticity in Late Nineteenth-century English Convalescent Institutions
Mental Hygiene, Psychoanalysis, and Interwar Psychology: The Making of the Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis
“Better red than dead”: Socialism in British Public Schools, 1900–1918
Discourses on im/migrants, ethnic minorities, and infectious disease: Fifty years of tuberculosis reporting in the United Kingdom
What the history of emotions can offer to psychologists, economists, and computer scientists (among others).
Gestalt psychology, frontloading phenomenology, and psychophysics
Freud, Griesinger and Foville: the influence of the nineteenth-century psychiatric tradition in the Freudian concept of delusion as an ‘attempt at recovery’
A long‐brewing crisis: The historical antecedents of major alcohol policy change in Ireland
Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the “Gypsy Question” in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956
Emotions: Some historical observations.
Denied Paternity: Parental Rights and the Guardianship of Infants in Ireland, 1937–1964
The Power of Emotions: Negotiating Mother–Daughter Relationships in Seventeenth-century Hungary
Historical Origins of the Personal Belief Exemption to Vaccination Mandates: The View from California
A case for a “middle-way career” in the history of psychology: The work of pioneering psychoanalyst Marjorie Brierley in early 20th century Britain.
The humanizing of the poor law (1894)
Beyond the Depathologization of Homosexuality: Reframing Evelyn Hooker as a Boundary Shifter in Twentieth-Century US Sex Research
The Peasants’ Revolt—when people fought corruption
Wat Tyler was murdered for leading the peasants
Research on the history of psychiatry
A historical perspective on mental health: Proposal for a dialogue between history and psychology.
Class, literacy and social mobility: Madrid, 1880–1905
Impounded People: Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers
Wearing the wolf skin: psychiatry and the phenomenon of the berserker in medieval Scandinavia
Zoning Damned Whores and God’s Police: Maintaining Prostitution through Land Use and Euphemism in Victoria, Australia
Grace Abbott, Chief of the Children’s Bureau
Grace Abbott and her sister Edith fought for social welfare reform on behalf of the urban lower classes, working with Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago from 1908 to 1920. In 1921, Grace Abbott became head of the Children’s Bureau, part of the U.S. Department of Labor.
A plea for poor law reform (1893)
Between the West and the World: Historical Perspectives on the Place of Sociology in Asia
Prohibition: everything you wanted to know
Was Al Capone’s brother really a Prohibition agent? What was the atmosphere in a speakeasy like? And why did Americans think that banning booze would ever work? In the latest episode in our series on history’s biggest topics, historian Timothy Hickman responds to listener questions and popular internet search queries on the ban on booze in 1920s America.
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Who’s normal and who’s not? Notions of children’s intellectual development in the context of emerging special education at the turn of the twentieth century in Switzerland
Moral psychopathology and mental health: Modern and ancient.
The Feminist History of “Child Allowances”
The socialist feminist leader Crystal Eastman