Four members of the Mattachine Society at a “sip-in” in 1966, demanding to be served at Julius’s Bar in Greenwich Village
Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia
The Real Rainbow Row: Charleston’s Queer History
Leah Greenberg Postcard Collection, College of Charleston Special Collections
Life on the Margins in a Kingdom of Cartels
The Painful, Powerful Legacies of Stonewall in 2019
Who Built Maslow’s Pyramid? A History of the Creation of Management Studies’ Most Famous Symbol and Its Implications for Management Education
Women in Britain: Voices and Perspectives from Twentieth Century History
Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Relocation Center, California
Sumiko Shigematsu, standing at left, looking at row of women seated at sewing machines (1943)
The Dangerous Game of Croquet
Many 19th-century observers were disturbed by the way young people took the co-ed sport of croquet as an opportunity to flirt.
E21-22: The Stonewall riots and Pride at 50
Historical Migration Patterns Shape Contemporary Cultures of Emotion
Through a glass darkly: patients of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, USA (1854–80)
The Lure of Western Europe
The Berlin Wall, November 1989
Growing Old with the Welfare State
‘Every man has his breaking point’: Reagan, brainwashing and the movies
A British Suffragette in America
Sylvia Pankhurst at work on the Women’s Social Defence League shop in Bow Street, London, October 11, 1912.
Not just a one-man revolution: the multifaceted anti-asylum watershed in Italy
Summer Is For Kids
The ‘Brown Babies’ who were left behind
Many of the babies were put in children’s homes, such as Holnicote House in Somerset
Greenville history: How ‘social work pioneer’ Laura Ebaugh helped shape the city
As good as it gets: an empirical study on mentally-ill patients and their stay at a general hospital in Sweden, 1896–1905
‘Unfit for reform or punishment’: mental disorder and discipline in Liverpool Borough Prison in the late nineteenth century
This article examines how Liverpool Borough Prison, opened in 1855 as one of the largest local prisons in England to adopt the separate system, categorized and dealt with mental distress and disorder amongst its prison population in the late nineteenth century.
Scientists against the machine
Jane Shallice examines the history of radical research at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science
The Troubled History of Psychiatry
Charles Booth’s London: Drink and drugs
What Milwaukee Can Teach the Democrats about Socialism
The Parish Councils Act: What it is and how to work it (1894)
Social types and sociological analysis
An Illustrated History of New York City’s Playgrounds
There are more than 2,000 playgrounds spread across New York City. Ariel Aberg-Riger explores the creative and political history of concrete jungle’s jungle gyms.
Father Flanagan is an Intercessor for Our Times
Father Flanagan talking with children in his hometown of Ballymoe, Ireland, in 1946.
The theory and practice of Thomas Verner Moore’s Catholic psychiatry and psychotherapy
Thomas Verner Moore (1877–1969), a Catholic priest, psychologist, and psychiatrist, developed a Catholic psychiatry in the first half of the 20th century.
The Kirkbride buildings in contemporary culture (1850–2015): from ‘moral management’ to horror films
In Baltimore, Visions of Life After Steel
The former Bethlehem Steel office building in Sparrows Point lies in ruins.
The American Era of Child Labor
Group of Workers in Clayton, N.C. Cotton Mills, October 1912
Mental disorder and mysticism in the late medieval world.
‘Peace and happiness await us’: Psychotherapy in Yugoslavia, 1945–85
Two and a half decades observing life in rural America
Ironton, Ohio, 1985.
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation’s transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition.
Poverty and Welfare in Ireland 1838-1948
Mexico’s Dirty War on Drugs: Source Control and Dissidence in Drug Enforcement
Sources for the history of social work
The introduction of leucotomy in Germany: National Socialism, émigrés, a divided Germany and the development of neurosurgery
Establishing Children’s Legal Rights: Children, Family, and the State in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule (1895–1945)
There Is Truth Here: The Power of Art from Residential Schools on Display
Print on the bottom-left corner says: “Edith Kruger, Inkameep Indian Day School, Age 12 years.” Art was an escape for many students in the residential school system.
Arsonists Torched Highlander’s Main Office. But You Can’t Burn Down an Idea.
(A broadside calls Highlander 25th anniversary attendees Martin Luther King Jr., Abner W. Berry, Aubrey Williams and Myles Horton the “‘Four Horsemen’ of racial agitation.” Rosa Parks appears on the far left)
The Touch of the State: Stop and Search in England, c.1660–1750
The “Two Cultures” in Clinical Psychology: Constructing Disciplinary Divides in the Management of Mental Retardation
Comparison, Triangulation, and Embedding Research in History: A Methodological Self-Analysis
The Genealogy of Dementia Praecox I: Signs and Symptoms of Delusional Psychoses From 1880 to 1900
The asylums where society sent its “inadequates”
Sharing a cuppa