History (4,530 posts)

In the shadow of the asylum: the Stanley Royd Salmonella outbreak of 1984

Years of aid to the children

philly.com | Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Children playing at the Philadelphia Home for Infants in 1900. The home was absorbed by the Children’s Aid Society of Pennsylvania.

Crafting the English welfare state—interventions by Birmingham Local Education Authorities, 1948–1963

Social work in China – Historical development and current challenges for professionalization

‘Went into raptures’: reading emotion in the ordinary wartime diary, 1941–1946

Inspired by Constance Maynard: Exploring women’s sexual, emotional and religious lives through their writings

Bringing the social back: rethinking the declension narrative of twentieth-century US labour history

Individual perception and cultural development: Foucault’s 1954 approach to mental illness and its history.

A brief history of Social Work Scotland

New Book: A Critical History of Schizophrenia

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Spatial variation in non-marital fertility across Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: recent trends, persistence of the past, and potential future pathways

Activism in the US

Digital Public Library of America | William Stanford Sr. Photographs, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center

View of unidentified men protesting segregated facilities outside of Rich’s store in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. December 1960.

Revisiting Introspection in William James’ Early Work

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B. F. Skinner Foundation

Established in 1988 the B. F. Skinner Foundation has a wealth of material from Skinner’s literary estate, from donations from his colleagues and students, and from family members.

‘To Make the Past Present, to Bring the Distant Near’: Affective History and Historical Distance in The War That Changed Us

Entrenched reductionisms: The bête noire of psychiatry

Admission and Discharge of Children

Beyond A Chilling Effect: The Impact of FBI Surveillance on African American Literature during the Hoover Era

The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left’s Founding Manifesto

Crushing Strikes through the U.S. Military, 1875–1915

Indomitable Spirits: Prohibition in the United States

Digital Public Library of America | Northfield Historical Society

Police officers and illegal liquor, Northfield, Minnesota, 1930.

Revolution and the Whip of Reaction: Technicians of Power and the Dialectic of Radicalisation

Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal

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“The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.”

Meeting the Problem of Mental Defectiveness

Cyclical swings: The bête noire of psychiatry.

The differing paths of an immigrant couple

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Charlotte and Karl Buhler (right) Abraham Maslow on the left in 1959.

April 2016: “The Future of the History of the Human Sciences”

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‘The people need civil liberties’: trade unions and contested decolonisation in Singapore

Introduction: trade unions in the global south from imperialism to the present day

How the Mall Made Walnut Creek: Retail Planning Dynamics in a California Suburb, 1950-2015

‘A confession of ignorance’: deaths from old age and deciphering cause-of-death statistics in Scotland, 1855–1949

1919: The Winnipeg general strike

Canadian labor Congress

At 11:00 am on May 15, 1919, workers walked off the job and marched into the streets of Winnipeg, leading to one of the biggest labour actions Canada has ever seen. Strikers included both the private and public sectors, and ranged from garment workers to police officers. On June 21, 1919, the Royal North-West Mounted Police and hired union busters rode on horseback and fired into a crowd of thousands of workers, killing two and injuring countless others.