History (4,563 posts)

After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I

Uncovering Indonesia’s Act of Killing

NYRDaily | AP

Soldiers taking suspects to prison during an anti-Communist crackdown in which some 500,000 Indonesians were killed, Jakarta, October 30, 1965

The Making of Burnout: From Social Change to Self-Awareness in the Postwar United States, 1970–82

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Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-Harm

Global mental health, autonomy and medical paternalism: reconstructing the ‘French ethical tradition’ in psychiatry

Residential Schools in Canada: An Education Guide

Medical History’s Moment in Art Photography (1920 to 1950): How Lejaren à Hiller and Valentino Sarra Created a Fashion for Scenes of Early Surgery

The Sexual Offences Act 1967. Part 2: Wolfenden’s silent women

Shattering the Silence

B. F. Skinner and technology’s nation: Technocracy, social engineering, and the good life in 20th-century America

History of Psychology | Psychlopedia

Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry

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Sandor Rado, American psychoanalysis, and the question of bisexuality

Nerves and War. Psychological Experiences of Mobilization and Suffering in Germany, 1900-1933

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Advances in the History of Psychology | IWM (Q 88100)

Letters on insanitary dwellings and the housing of the poor (1884)

Donnacha Seán Lucey. The End of the Irish Poor Law: Welfare and Healthcare Reform in Revolutionary and Independent Ireland

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Donnacha Seán Lucey. The End of the Irish Poor Law: Welfare and Healthcare Reform in Revolutionary and Independent Ireland

Your family needs protection against syphilis Your wife or husband and children should be examined and treated if necessary.

NYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project | LoC

Where Native Kids Were Sent To Be Americanized

Sherman Indian Museum

School officials hired photographers to create propaganda photos depicting the “joys” of life at Sherman. In this one, Navajo girls make fry bread.

Rebellion and Reconstruction in Newark

Irish Social Welfare Act, 1952

Florence Kelley (1859 – 1932): Social Reformer, Child Welfare Advocate, Socialist and Pacifist

Social Welfare History Project/LoC

In 1891 Kelley joined Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Ellen Gates Starr, and other women at Hull House. Kelley’s first job after coming to the Hull House settlement was to visit the area around the settlement, surveying the working conditions in local factories. She found children as young as three or four working in tenement sweatshops.

Voluntary Organisations and the Assimilation of Non-British Migrant Women in Rural Australia: The Efforts of the Country Women’s Association of New South Wales 1952–66