History (4,911 posts)

Health and hierarchy: soldiers, civilians and mental healthcare in Scotland, 1914–34

War-Related Traumas and Mental Health Across Generations

JAMA

First Blacks in the Americas: The African presence in the Dominican Republic

CUNY Dominican Studies Institute

Sixteenth-century La Española: Glimpses of the first blacks of the early colonial Americas

Society, like the market, needs to be constructed: Foucault’s critical project at the dawn of neoliberalism

Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence

Public Domain Review | Wikimedia Commons

Coloured engraving from Joseph Racknitz’s 1789 pamphlet which attempted to reveal the secret workings of William Kempelen’s alleged chess-playing automaton “The Turk”

Australian Community Workers Association History

ACWA

History of Social Work in the United Kingdom: Oxford Bibliographies Online

Yorkshire’s influence on the understanding and treatment of mental diseases in Victorian Britain: The golden triad of York, Wakefield, and Leeds

The Great Leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century

Children of migrant fruit worker, Berrien County, Michigan (1940)

NYPL | J Vachon

Consumption and poverty in the homes of the English poor, c. 1670–1834

Camden Lesbian Centre

Historic England | Glasgow Women's Library

Flyer for the Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group, Phoenix Road, London

LSD experiments by the United States Army

State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers

Danvers State Insane Asylum

Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, who served the Pennsylvania Hospital as the superintendent from 1841-1883 created a humane and compassionate environment for his patients, and believed that beautiful settings restored patients to a more natural “balance of the senses”. Dr. Kirkbride’s progressive therapies and innovative writings on hospital design along with management became known as the Kirkbride Plan, which influenced, in one form or another, almost every American state hospital by the turn of the century including Danvers

Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab’s Saloon to Occupy Wall Street. Edited by Tom Goyens

Lechebnaia pedagogika: The Concept and Practice of Therapy in Russian Defectology, c. 1880–1936

From Invisibility to Marginality: women’s history in Romania

‘A Glass Half Full’? Women’s history in the UK

Social Work Management Practice, 1917–2017: A History to Inform the Future

SSR

Children in slum district. Baltimore, Maryland (1938)

NYPL | D Sheldon

History of the Surgeon General’s Reports on Smoking and Health

CDC | USPHS

History of the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh

UP: SSW

Emotion, ritual and power in Europe, 1200–1920

Latino city: immigration and urban crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000

‘Speaking Kleinian’: Susan Isaacs as Ursula Wise and the Inter-War Popularisation of Psychoanalysis

medical HX

Behind Asylum Walls: Studying the Dialectic Between Psychiatrists and Patients at Montreal’s Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital during the first half of the Twentieth Century

New Deal Photography. USA 1935–1943

School Social Work History

Boyish Mannerisms and Womanly Coquetry: Patients with the Diagnosis of Transvestitismus in the Helsinki Psychiatric Clinic in Finland, 1954–68

Educational Alliance: A History of a Lower East Side Settlement House

VCU: Social Welfare History Project

When it was founded by German Jews in 1889, the Educational Alliance successfully managed to follow University Settlement House’s initial footsteps by setting up shop in the Lower East Side with a large building of its own. In doing so, it immediately achieved prominence as a premier settlement house serving immigrants.

British social policy, 1601-1948

P Spicker

100 years of Whitleyism: a comparative overview of a century of public service industrial relations in Europe and the US

‘Homeless’ women and the problem of visibility: Australia 1900–1940

Punishments, Bodies and Environments in Historical Focus

Rise and Decline of the Welfare State in America

Centre for Research on Globalization | NY Times

Clinton converted welfare into cheap labor ‘workfare’, exploiting the poorest and most vulnerable and condemning the next generations to grinding poverty. Under Clinton the prison population of mostly African Americans expanded and the breakup of families ravaged the urban communities.