Patriotic betrayal: the inside story of the CIA’s secret campaign to enroll American students in the crusade against communism
Why did people fear the Victorian workhouse?
Wilfrid Laurier University social work researchers create virtual museum of Waterloo County “poorhouse”
Her life: The woman behind the New Deal
From her earliest days in the Roosevelt cabinet, Frances Perkins was a forceful advocate for massive public works programs to bring the nation’s unemployed back to work. Within a month of Roosevelt’s inauguration, Congress enacted legislation establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps, which Roosevelt asked Perkins to implement. Roosevelt also asked her to present a plan for an emergency relief program, and she delivered a young social worker from New York named Harry Hopkins who had visited Frances in Washington with his own proposal.
Prisoners and Mental Illness in Prisons, 1850–2000
Since the inception of the ‘modern’ prison system in the mid-nineteenth century to the current day, the relationship between mental illness and the prison has been hotly debated, in terms of why so many prisons came to contain large numbers of mentally ill people, as well as their tendency as institutions to produce or exacerbate mental disease.
Amiable Warriors: A History of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality
The ‘flood’ of 1945: regimes and repertoires of migration in the Soviet Union at war’s end
Clyde Warrior: tradition, community, and Red Power
Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion
The Abramovitch Campaign and What It Tells Us about American Communism
Separate Confinement and Insanity at Mountjoy Convict Prison, Dublin 1850-55
Reassessing the pauper burial: the disposal of corpses in nineteenth-century Brussels
Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910 and Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860–1910
The All-Asian Women’s Conference 1931: Indian women and their leadership of a pan-Asian feminist organisation
‘Just Another Start to the Denigration of Anzac Day’: Evolving Commemorations of Australian LGBTI Military Service
100 years of the WI: The acceptable face of feminism
‘Call Us Ms.’: Viva and arguments for Kenyan women’s respectable citizenship 1975–80
A new insurgency: the Port Huron Statement and its times
Michael Whitfield, The Dispensaries: Healthcare for the Poor Before the NHS.
Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies
How the launch of a new journal in 1904 may have changed the relationship between psychology and philosophy.
Clara Brian champion of farm families
Baltimore City Public Schools Social Work Services (BCPS)
Prison break: Karl Menninger’s The Crime of Punishment and its reception in U.S. psychology.
Saul Alinsky
The Great Labour Unrest: rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield
Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940
Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
Universal Principles of Depicting Oneself across the Centuries: From Renaissance Self-Portraits to Selfie-Photographs
Mary C. Ousler: Keeper of the Census Records
Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers: Decade Three | 1984-1993
Jeannette Rankin was sworn in 100 years ago as the first congresswoman
Vox | US House of Representatives
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was born near Missoula in western Montana. After graduating from the nearby University of Montana, she followed a restless path to Boston, San Francisco, New York (where she earned a graduate degree in social work from Columbia University), Washington state, and then back to Montana to successfully advocate for women’s suffrage.