History (4,531 posts)

David nuzzles Kristi’s neck and wraps his arms around her.

Viola Bernard was a pioneering social psychiatrist whose vision of mental health presumed fundamental links between the lives of communities and the lives of individuals. Causes such as civil rights, peace, and urban poverty, she believed, were determining factors in child and family welfare, and Bernard pursued them actively throughout her life.

The girls at play in the garden

The history of the fight for single-payer healthcare for the elderly and poor should inform today’s movement to win for Medicare for All. Above: A spectators’ section is filled with senior citizens supporting Medicare at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, August 26, 1964.

Gosset published his most important paper, The Probable Error of a Mean, under the pseudonym “Student” in the journal Biometrika in 1908.

Kandel and Timothy Leary at the Human Be-In, 1967

Hans Asperger, bottom right, with the staff of the Vienna Children’s Hospital, 1933

Volume 11, Issue 1, June 2018, Page 113-115
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Savage and Ayers offer a narrative history of the strike that weaves together threads about organizer Mother Jones, the United Mine Workers union, politicians, coal companies, and Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency guards with the experiences of everyday men and women. The result is a compelling and in-depth treatment that brings to light an unjustly neglected—and notably violent—chapter of labor history.