In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and the nation. In Oregon’s Others, Kimberly Jensen analyzes the processes that shaped the growing surveillance state of the era and the compelling personal stories that tell its history.
Frances Perkins homestead worthy of national monument status
This undated image provided by the Frances Perkins Center, shows land and home belonging to the late Frances Perkins, the nation’s first female Cabinet member under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Newcastle, Maine. Maine leaders said, Aug. 8, that they’re asking President Biden to elevate the status of the homestead by making it a national monument managed by the National Park Service.
Falling for suburbia
Construction on the Downham Estate in 1925. This was one of eventually 13 ‘cottage estates’ built by the London County Council in the interwar years as part of a huge social and economic transformation of Britain, partly fuelled by the demands of those back from conflict that they not return to the terrible inner-city living conditions they’d left behind. A little more than 100 years ago, the scale of poverty and deprivation in London’s inner-city slums was dramatic.
‘A true doyen of social work’: the life and influence of Olive Stevenson
This article is part of a series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary. In 2013, social work lost a generation-defining academic and social worker, with the death of Olive Stevenson. During 60 years in the profession, Stevenson trained hundreds of practitioners, while simultaneously challenging and inspiring the field through her numerous books and research papers.
Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest
Back when resources started running scarce, the environment of the forest and bodies of workers became the natural resources from which mills and landowners extracted. Bodies and cutover landscapes were mobilized in new ways to increase the scale and efficiency of production—a brutal process for workers, human and animal alike. In the Northern Forest, an industrial working class formed in relation to the unique ways that workers’ bodies were used to produce value and in relation to the seasonal cycles of the forest environment.
Cutover Capitalism is an innovative historical study that combines methodological approaches from labor history, environmental history, and the new history of capitalism.
At the End of the World: Notes on a 1941 Murder Rampage in the Arctic and the Threat of Religious Extremism, Loss of Indigenous Culture, and Danger of Digital Life
In a remote corner of the Arctic in 1941, a meteor shower flashed across the sky for an unusually long time. Taking this to be a sign, one of the local Inuit proclaimed himself Jesus Christ. Another proclaimed himself God. Anyone who didn’t believe in them was Satan. Violence ensued. At the End of the World isn’t just the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred on the Belcher Islands, a group of wind-blasted rocks in Canada’s Hudson Bay. It’s also a starting place for a deeper cultural exploration.
Organized Crime and American Power: A History, Second Edition
Rockland State Hospital: A Case Approach to Teaching the History of Psychology
How the 1968 DNC in Chicago Devolved into ‘Unrestrained and Indiscriminate Police Violence’
Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement
Improving Upper Canada: Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791–1852
William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border: Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State
Hanson’s career illustrates the ways in which legal exclusion, white-supremacist violence, and official corruption overlapped and were essential building blocks of a growing state presence along the border in the early twentieth century. In this book, John Weber reveals Hanson’s cynical efforts to use state and federal power to proclaim the border region inherently dangerous and traces the origins of current nativist politics that seek to demonize the border population. In doing so, he provides insight into how a minor political appointee, motivated by his own ambitions, had lasting impacts on how the border was experienced by immigrants and seen by the nation.
Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II
The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the geographically and culturally diverse Indigenous communities affected. Offering important Alaska Native experiences of this history, Holly Miowak Guise draws on a wealth of oral histories and interviews with Indigenous elders to explore the multidimensional relationship between Alaska Natives and the US military during the Pacific Wa
Warriors for Social Justice Maria Jimenez of Houston and Mexican American Activists
“I’m not a person anymore”: The “survivor syndrome” and William G. Niederland’s perception of the human being.
Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest
American Coal: Russell Lee Portraits
In 1946 the Truman administration made a promise to striking coal miners: as part of a deal to resume work, the government would sponsor a nationwide survey of health and labor conditions in mining camps. One instrumental member of the survey team was photographer Russell Lee. Lee had made his name during the Depression, when, alongside Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, he used his camera to document agrarian life for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Now he trained his lens on miners and their families to show their difficult circumstances despite their essential contributions to the nation’s first wave of postwar growth.
Warriors for Social Justice: Maria Jimenez of Houston and Mexican American Activists
‘Work in the Housewives’ Service, like that of a household, seems never to be done’: the ‘practical politics’ of the Women’s Voluntary Service in the Second World War
The city aroused: Queer places and urban redevelopment in postwar San Francisco
A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945
American Coal
The Road Not Taken: A History of Radical Social Work in the United States
Reflections on the Irish Domestic Adoption Process 1952 – 2022
Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries
Johann Rudolf Schellenberg’s etchings of death as both a seductress and an enemy of scholars, from an 1803 edition of Johann Karl August Musäus’ Freund heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier (Apparitions of death in the manner of Holbein)
Marcel Réja and theatre therapy
Pulling off the Sheets: The Second Ku Klux Klan in Deep Southern Illinois
Contraception: A Concise History
The women’s refuge as ‘homeplace’: Black and Asian women’s refuges in Britain as spaces of community and resistance (1980–2000)
A Deal With the Devil: What the Age-Old Faustian Bargain Reveals About the Modern World
Max Weber and the Path from Political Economy to Economic Sociology
Always Running: Luis J. Rodríguez’s memoir of gang days in LA is as relevant today as it was 30 years ago
From hypochondrium to hypochondria
The Pandemic Arc: Expanded Narratives in the History of Global Health
‘The voice of the true British housewife’: the politics of housewifery at Labour’s women’s conferences, 1945–1959
A history of mental illness among women in the Straits Settlements in the nineteenth century
Reconsidering the “Uznadze Effect” and psychology of set (Gantskoba) from a systemic cultural psychological perspective.
Phrenitis and the pathology of the mind in western medical thought (fifth century BCE to twentieth century cE)
Family Conceptions at the Intersection of Feminism, Public Health, and Nationalism in Czechoslovakia (1918–1939)
Not going out: television’s impacts on Britain’s commercial entertainment industries and popular leisure during the 1950s
‘I was utterly at my husband’s mercy’: voices from the Women’s Co-operative Guild, 1910–1914
Best-Laid Plans: The Promises and Pitfalls of the New Deal Greenbelt Towns
Gay Bars as Third Places for Resistance, Identity, and Culture
Journal of Planning History, Ahead of Print.
The specter of authenticity: Social science after the deconstruction of Romanticism
History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
In a long-forgotten essay, Alvin Gouldner defended the distinctive contributions of Romantic social science. Today, half a century later, very few would risk making a similar plea. Owing to its deconstruction, the discourse of Romanticism has increasingly fallen out of favor in the social sciences, meaning social scientists have progressively come to see Romanticism as less a resource for critique than a bourgeois ideology warranting critical scrutiny. Yet the truth is quite a bit more complicated. For despite its disapproval at the level of social science’s explicit culture, Romanticism continues to serve, at the level of implicit culture, as a potent resource for social analysis. We start with a clarification of what we mean by Romanticism. While Romanticism may be an amorphous and multifaceted structure of thought and feeling, like Gouldner, we do not think it lacks coherence. Thus, we outline what we take to be the core dimensions of the ‘Romantic syndrome’, and then survey some of its key figures in Western social thought. Next, we move to a discussion of three select studies about the infiltration of Romanticism into the capitalist heartland—the sphere of work. We demonstrate how, consistent with our argument that Romanticism has become increasingly symbolically polluted within social science, each of these studies critiques the Romantic turn at work, while nevertheless anchoring their critiques in Romanticism, albeit in increasingly implicit fashion. We conclude by offering some reflections on why Romanticism continues to haunt contemporary social science—and why this matters.
‘Time Is Against Us’: Anti-Communism, Decolonisation, and Papua New Guinean Independence
Scientific origins of racism
‘Early childhood autism, Asperger type’, by H. Asperger (1982)
An avant-garde of the mind: Ōe Masanori and psychedelic cinema in the global Sixties
Sex and the Married Girl: Heterosexual Marriage and the Body in Postwar Canada by Stanley, Heather
Journal of Family History, Ahead of Print.