New York’s Last Socialist Congressperson
Vito Marcantonio with children from his district in New York.
Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000
This is a major new, five-year project, funded by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, and led by co-PIs Associate Professor Catherine Cox (UCD) and Professor Hilary Marland (University of Warwick).
The ‘First Generation’ in Historical Perspective: Canadian Students in the 1960s
The Noah Purifoy Foundation
Born in 1917 at the height of Jim Crow, in Snow Hill Alabama, a town that has no national census data; Noah Purifoy sought out higher education, received a B.A. degree, taught industrial arts in high school, and then enlisted in the Navy during WWII as a Sea Bee. After the war he returned to university for a graduate degree in Social Work; eventually, plying his training in Los Angeles. Encumbered by race and social quicksand, Noah’s curiosity and determination are worthy, in and of itself, of multiple volumes. Disillusioned with “social work,” Noah left work one day and enrolled in Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts) becoming its first African American student, and received a BFA, his third degree.
Christmas cheer turned to carnage 50 years ago in Carlinville, Ill., as man killed wife, kids, social workers
Alcohol: A History
Phillips follows the ever-changing cultural meanings of these potent potables and makes the surprising argument that some societies have entered “post-alcohol” phases. His is the first book to examine and explain the meanings and effects of alcohol in such depth, from global and long-term perspectives.
Framing women’s scientific labour at the Burden Neurological Institute through archival photography
The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women’s liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential from the 1970s through the 1990s, the Women in Print movement created a network of writers, publishers, bookstores, and readers that fostered a remarkable array of literature.
Maternal Bodies: redefining motherhood in early America
seminar: Dr Sarah Marks (Birkbeck): Bowlbyism Behind the Iron Curtain: Psychiatry and Childcare Reform in Communist Czechoslovakia
In 1963 a documentary film, Children Without Love [Dětí bez lásky], was smuggled out of Communist to the Venice Biennale film festival – and was screened in cinemas at home, surreptitiously tagged onto the end of a Miloš Forman film.
Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
In Policing Los Angeles, Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion.
Psychiatric nursing in the Netherlands and Great Britain: class, status and gender in the making of a profession
Loss and Bravery: Intimate Snapshots From the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis
A memorial service at St. Francis Xavier Church for gay activist Diego J. Lopez, who died of AIDS. Lopez was a social worker and psychotherapist who served in the Vietnam War. A one-time clinical director at Gay Men’s Health Crisis, he developed a training program for AIDS volunteers that became a model for organizations in other cities. Oct. 2, 1986.
Hurtin’ Words: Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South
A Home or a Gaol? Scandal, Secrecy, and the St James’s Inebriate Home for Women
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital
Remembering the Influencers of Postwar US Housing: Tales of Builders and Bulldozers
Despite Being “Known, Highly Promiscuous and Active”: Presumed Heterosexuality in the USPHS’s STD Inoculation Study, 1946–48
A Radical History of the World
Colonial surgeon Patrick Hill (1794–1852): unacknowledged pioneer of Australian mental healthcare
Social Work: Essays on the Meeting-ground of Doctor and Social Worker (1919)
Organization for social work (1912)
Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England: The Old Poor Law Tradition
Crossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A. Fideler offers a coherent overview of parish-centered social welfare from its medieval roots, through its institutionalisation in the Elizabethan Poor Law, to its demise in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.
Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States: A History
Why are the many poor? (1884)
Combining psychiatry and spiritism: Therapies employed in a Brazilian sanatorium (1934–1948)
Socialists in the House: A 100-Year History from Victor Berger to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Victor Berger, seen here with Eugene V. Debs and Berth Hale White, was an American socialist elected to the House in 1910.
Robert Owen, utopian socialism and social transformation
Disappearing Acts: Anguish, Isolation, and the Re-imagining of the Mentally Ill in Global Psychopharmaceutical Advertising (1953–2005)
Gaps in the ice: Methamphetamine in Australia; its history, treatment, and ramifications for users and their families
This paper outlines the historical narrative that has led to the current worldwide phenomenon of ice use and explores contemporary directions of research into its impact and potential treatments.
The (Still) Dreary Deadlock of Public Housing
Catherine Bauer, accepting the check for her prize-winning essay for Fortune
Psychiatrists and mental health activism during the final phase of the Franco regime and the democratic transition
Adolescents’ Impact on Family Economy in Sweden: During the First Decades of the Twentieth Century
Right Up Until His Death, He Told Barbara Lee to ‘Keep Breaking Through’
Rep. Ron Dellum, right, is pictured with staff members, including Barbara Lee, in an undated photograph.
Ancient philosophers on mental illness
Training for Childbirth and After [Vintage 1940 Educational Film]
One person, one vote: The legacy of SNCC and the fight for voting rights
How Republicans Became Anti-Choice
Abortion rights demonstrators, New York City, 1968
Rich or Poor: Social Class in America – 1957 Educational Film
Inside a Cursed Appalachian Mining Town
The 1918 influenza pandemic: Looking back, looking forward
History of Occupational Health and Safety From 1905 to the Present
‘What is it about “fuck off” you don’t understand?’ The NILRC and politics of the Left in Northern Ireland
Debating Women: Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945
The Origins of the Orphan Train Movement & the Children’s Aid Society
The Global Origins and Practice of Critical Social Work—Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed
Forging feminism within labor unions and the legacy of democracy movements in South Korea
The story of American poverty, as told by one Alabama county