Bernie in 1992: “Big Money Owns Congress”
A Medical Challenge: The Alcohol Disease in Sweden 1946–1955
What has the ‘first sexual revolution’ to do with kinship transition? ‘Kin marriages’ and illicit sexuality in nineteenth-century Alpine Switzerland
GAO: GAO’s History
My Great-Grandfather the Bundist
A Yiddish poster for the Jewish Labor Bund reads: “There, where we live, there is our country! A democratic republic! Full political and national rights for Jews. Ensure that the voice of the Jewish working class is heard at the Constituent Assembly,” Kiev, circa 1918
Home Classes in 1970
Managing difficult and violent adolescents (adolescents difficiles) in France: a genealogical approach
A brief history of academic freedom
If engaging with the public is indeed part of the job of the professor, then universities ought to protect professors who take up the task.
The Urban League of Greater Madison through the years
Then-Urban League executive director Betty Franklin-Hammonds, center, along with then-president of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce Bob Brennan, left, and then-president of the League’s board of directors, Darl Drummond.
How Unions Can Solve the Housing Crisis
The labor movement once built thousands of low-cost co-op apartments for working class New Yorkers. It could do so again. Above: A 1957 diagram shows how Amalgamated Houses and other cooperatives govern themselves: one member, one vote.
Showers: from a violent treatment to an agent of cleansing
Working Class History E12: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit
A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
Interview with Dagmar Herzog on Cold War Psychoanalysis
A cradle-to-grave welfare system is best, but who would want it today?
‘William Beveridge’s universal safety net was a great leap forward – though never quite what it claimed to be: there are no silver bullets.’
The views of Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–68) on suicidality or ‘self-murder’
Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907
These 1930s Housewives Were the Godmothers of Radical Consumer Activism
Psychology and psychoanalysis in Argentina: Politics, French thought, and the university connection, 1955–1976.
‘The Only Trouble is the Dam’ Heroin’: Addiction, Treatment and Punishment at the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm
Protection from Undesirable Neighbors: The Use of Deed Restrictions in Shaker Heights, Ohio
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Lessons from an Indian Day School: Negotiating Colonization in Northern New Mexico, 1902-1907
A breakdown of reformatory education: remembering Westbrook
Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in Queensland, Australia, existed in various forms for over 100 years.
Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania
Creating a new psychiatry: on the origins of non-institutional psychiatry in the USA, 1900–50
What the Origins of the “1 in 5” Statistic Teaches Us About Sexual Assault Policy
“1 in 5” is one of the most high-profile and contested statistics in the media today. Referring to the number of women who experience sexual assault during their time in college, “1 in 5” is frequently invoked by activists to intensify public efforts to identify, prevent, and prosecute sexual assault. At the same time, it is roundly critiqued by those who feel it is an inflated, politically motivated number that creates mass hysteria rather than sound policy.
A Short History of SNAP
President Johnson signing the Food Stamp Act of 1964
Titicut Follies (1967)
Psychedelics and psychotherapy in Canada: Humphry Osmond and Aldous Huxley.
The decade of the 1950s is well known among historians of psychiatry for the unprecedented shift toward psychopharmacological solutions to mental health problems. More psychiatric medications were introduced than ever before or since (Healy, 2002). While psychiatric researchers later credited these drugs, in part, for controlling psychotic, depressive, and anxious symptoms—and subsequently for emptying decaying psychiatric institutions throughout the Western world—psychiatrists also produced a number of other theories that relied on a more delicate and nuanced blending of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.
Georgia Groundbreaker: Mary Frances Early
Juvenile Court-1973
British Social Theory: Recovering Lost Traditions before 1950
Satan’s Choice
A Working Class Kid | Wayne Waterson’s Unseen Images of Hackney during the 1970s & 80s.
Homeless Man, Brick Lane, 1970s.
Visit of Paul Baerwald & Family to the Baerwald School, 1950
Sexuality, therapeutic culture, and family ties in the United States after 1973.
Patients released to communities: Deinstiutionalization – Does it work?
The Australian Assistance Plan and the Canadian Connection: Origins and Legacies
History and the topsy-turvy world of psychotherapy.
Combining psychiatry and spiritism: Therapies employed in a Brazilian sanatorium (1934–1948).
Coney Island’s Incubator Babies
Martin and Hildegarde Couney with a young boy observe an incubator baby in the Couneys’ care.
We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage
The United States Committee for the Care of European Children
Emblem of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children, ca. 1941-1945.