History (4,530 posts)

W.E.B. Du Bois (right) at the headquarters of the NAACP publication Crisis as his production staff work at their desks, c. 1932

Lindsy Van Gelder–author of that famous New York Post article about bra-burning feminists–reflects on the alternative LGBTQ+ press of the 1970s.

The Stolen Generation of Australia refers to the aboriginal children taken from their families during the period 1910 to 1970. This was part of a policy called Assimilation, which is based on the assumption of black inferiority and white superiority.

1937 poster encouraging persons with syphilis to seek proper treatment as soon as possible.

Rising from the ruins of World War I, in the 1920s Vienna’s socialist administration was famous for its innovative housing and public health programs. But at the heart of “Red Vienna” were its services for children, guaranteeing that even the poorest young people could share in the joys of childhood — and the foundations of a fulfilling life.

This is the first full-length biography of Richard Titmuss, a pioneer of social policy research and an influential figure in Britain’s post-war welfare debates.

Soldiers in gas masks advance on World War I Bonus March demonstrators in Washington, D.C., July 1932

Physiognomies of Russian criminals from The Delinquent Woman (1893)

In April 1981, a letter arrived at the office of then-Prime Minister Nam Duck-woo. The letter, handwritten by President Chun Doo-Hwan, a former general who had seized power through a military coup a year earlier, ordered the authorities to “crack down on begging and take protective measures for vagrants”. Under the ordinance which allowed arbitrary detention of vagrants, social welfare centres were set up and buses with signs that read “Vagrants’ Transport Vehicle” began to appear in large cities like Busan.

Juneteenth day celebration in Texas, 1900.

February 1939