History (4,558 posts)

The Berlin Wall, November 1989

Sylvia Pankhurst at work on the Women’s Social Defence League shop in Bow Street, London, October 11, 1912.

Many of the babies were put in children’s homes, such as Holnicote House in Somerset

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.

Jane Shallice examines the history of radical research at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science

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 talking with children in his hometown of Ballymoe, Ireland, in 1946.

Thomas Verner Moore (1877–1969), a Catholic priest, psychologist, and psychiatrist, developed a Catholic psychiatry in the first half of the 20th century.

The former Bethlehem Steel office building in Sparrows Point lies in ruins.

Group of Workers in Clayton, N.C. Cotton Mills, October 1912

Ironton, Ohio, 1985.

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.

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.

(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)

Sharing a cuppa

New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller used the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to help create a superagency that would transform the state’s cities and suburbs. It didn’t last long.

Detail from Three Men Sit Smoking and Drinking at a Barrel Table

The Dosser’s Bible was assembled throughout the late 1950’s and early 1960s by the founder of the Simon Community. Anton Wallich-Clifford. The Community is based in Camden and from 1963 operated houses for the homeless going way beyond the provision offered at the time to work with homeless people beyond the reach of existing provision. Many major homelessness charities including St Mungos and the Cyrenians came out of the Simon Community

Most Canadian women had gained the right to vote by the end of the First World War, but women in Quebec had to wait until 1940 or longer to cast a ballot in their own province.