History (4,558 posts)

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

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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.

British Communists and the 1932 turn to the trade unions

Control over Life, Control over Body: female suicide in early republican Turkey

Anthropophagy: A singular concept to understand Brazilian culture and psychology as specific knowledge.

The Australian Dream of an Island Empire: Race, Reputation and Resistance

Sitting on top of the world: The Grateful Dead say goodbye

Voices from the past: Mental and physical outcomes described by American Civil War amputees

Working Children: Rural Child Labor Markets in the Postemancipation Great Karoo, South Africa, 1856-1913

Master Bedrooms and Master Suites: Modern Marriage and the Architecture of American Homes

Leon Marillier and the veridical hallucination in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century French psychology and psychopathology

Louisiana State University School of Social Work anniversary photos

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Family Intake ca. 1958

The production and reproduction of Chinese and Taiwanese identities in Taiwan’s popular songs

JFK and the 1960s

Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) — Journalist, Social Activist, Pacifist

Rescuing from oblivion: social characteristics and career destinations of early British sociology’ graduates, 1907–39

Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the emergence of modern American environmentalism

Masculinity and Italian cinema: sexual politics, social conflict and male crisis in the 1970s

Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Protests & Social Action at UW-Madison during the 20th Century

Students participate in demonstrations at the Capitol against cuts in the state welfare budget.

‘A Berlin psychiatrist with an American passport’: Lothar Kalinowsky, electroconvulsive therapy and international exchange in the mid-twentieth century

Michigan League for Public Policy

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The stock market crash of 1929 defined the decade of the 1930s for Michigan and the whole nation. The decade was a critical one for the Michigan Conference of Social Work, which was operating as it had since 1912 with volunteer efforts augmented by dues and conference fees.