Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II–Era New York City
Virginia Public Health disease prevention illustration
School Integration in America: A Conversation with American Experience
The Real History of Letchworth Village in the Hudson Valley
Letchworth Village was both a model for compassionate care and a symbol of institutional abuse
Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South
The Incorrigibles: Eugenics and Sterilization in the Kansas Industrial School for Girls
Between September 1935 and June 1936, sixty-two girls from a reformatory in north-central Kansas were sterilized in the name of eugenics. None of the girls were habitual criminals, had multiple children, were living on social welfare, or were found to have IQs below seventy; in other words, almost none of them fit the categories usually described by eugenicists as justification for sterilization or covered by Kansas’s eugenic sterilization law. Yet no one at the time—including the reform school superintendent who ordered the procedures performed—had trouble defending the sterilizations as eugenically minded. The general public, however, found the justifications significantly more controversial after the story hit the newspapers.
“From Boys to Men” The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series
Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline
Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910
A New Deal for Quilts
The Good Death Through Time
Abortion Care is Health Care (A history of the challenges facing medical abortion provision in Australia)
Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
Untouchability, caste, and the electorate: Revisiting legacies of the Poona Pact in Pakistan
Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Sexual violence, deviance, and the paraphilias in American psychiatry, 1952–2013
Voting Rights Act…the first months
Plundering the North: A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity
The New Civil Rights Movement Reader: Resistance, Resilience, and Justice
Resisting Change in Suburbia—Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in LA
New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State
The spatiality and temporality of urban violence: Histories, rhythms and ruptures
The limits of the ethnographic state in British India: The case of ‘foreign Asiatic vagrants’, c. 1860–1900
School of Racism: A Canadian History, 1830–1915
Let’s spend the night together Sex, pop music and British youth culture, 1950s-80s
A progressive education? How childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh schools
Possibly mad? Marital murder in the early twentieth century: a matched-case gender analysis of forensic psychiatric investigations in Sweden
“Mere guesswork”: Clarifying the role of intelligence, mentality, and psychometric testing in the diagnosis of “mental defectives” for sterilization in Alberta from 1929 to 1972.
Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
Red Reckoning: The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life
Defeating the ‘social danger’ of homosexuality while ‘forging the fatherland’: Sexual science and biotypology in Mexico’s national development, 1927–57
The hope and burden of early intervention: Parents’ educational planning for their deaf children in post-1960s Australia
History of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (DD Act)
Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher
Klaus Holzkamp smiled: Soviet psychology in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Cold War era.
A brief history of The King’s Fund Library and Information Service
Education as economic stimulus in the human capital century
Psychology and the fall of Communism: The special case of (East) Germany
“A phobia of numbers?” the labour movement and social surveys in the German Empire
The Prison before the Panopticon: Incarceration in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy
The psychopathic hospital
Making the Radical University: Identity and Politics on the American College Campus, 1966–1991
A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
Operation Pedro Pan: The untold exodus of 14,048 Cuban children, revised edition
The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom
The Silent Treatment: Solitary Confinement’s Unlikely Origins
“Ground View of the New Prison in Philadelphia”, an 1827 illustration of Eastern State Penitentiary completed while it was still under construction