History (4,557 posts)

Making up ‘Vulnerable’ People: Human Subjects and the Subjective Experience of Medical Experiment

Commodity Fetishism and Consumer Senses: Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Consumer Activism in the United States and England

Cohabitation in Europe: a revenge of history?

Labor Unions and Race-conscious Housing in the Postwar Bay Area: Housing Projects of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union and the United Automobile Workers

‘Good, fresh air and an expert medical service’: old age pensioners in Leiden’s St. Hiëronymusdal retirement home, sixteenth century

Seasonality of Marriages in the Sajkaska Region (North Serbia), 1869 to 2011

“Buying brains and experts”: British coal owners, regulatory capture and miners’ health, 1918 – 1946

The Schenectady County Almshouse and Almshouse Records

Homosexuality and the Law: The Construction of Wolfenden Homonormativity in 1950s England

“God save us from psychologists as expert witnesses”: The battle for forensic psychology in early twentieth-century Germany.

A “National Distemper”: The National Hotel Sickness of 1857, Public Health and Sanitation, and the Limits of Rationality

Théodore Flournoy on synesthetic personification

“Gone to work to America”: Irish step-migration through south Wales in the 1860s and 1870s

Theodor Waitz’s theory of feelings and the rise of affective sciences in the mid-19th century.

Seeing sodomy in the Middle Ages

‘How the Modern Girl Attains Strength and Grace’: the Girl’s Own Paper, sport and the discipline of the female body, 1914–1956

The History of Teamwork’s Societal Diffusion: A Multi-Method Review

Scabbing the Palouse: agricultural labor replacement and union busting in southeast Washington, 1917–1919

An Instrument for Reaching Into Experience: Progressive Film at the Rockefeller Boards, 1934–1945

Moving backward and moving on: nostalgia, significant others, and social reintegration in nineteenth-century British immigrant personal correspondence

Tonbridge workhouse with cultivated land in front, early 1900s.

P Higginbotham

Sub/Urban Histories Against The Grain: Myth And Embourgeoisement In Essex Noir

The “feminine mystique” and problems of a cohort of female Canadian university students in the early 1960s

Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities

Family With “Friendly Visitor”

Community Service Society Collection | Columbia University Libraries

The white strip down the center of this photo is not a defect. The twin the nurse is holding has bare legs and head, and if you look closely you can see the mother is (with notable lack of enthusiasm) removing the swaddling clothes from the bonneted twin in her lap.)

German wine in an American bottle: the spread of modern psychiatry in China, 1898-1949

Address By Phil Schiff At The Annual Meeting of Alumni and Friends of Madison House, Inc. On October 23, 1954

Social Welfare History Project

A doorway into Hamilton-Madison House

First gay pride march through London, 1972

LAGNA | LSE/HCA/CHESTERMAN/43

Little mother (circa 1905)

Columbia University Libraries | New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

63rd The AICP Annual report, 1905-1906, section on Fresh Air Work, p. 54. “Next to the overburdened women and the sick babies, the ‘little mothers’ appeal most strongly – those young girls upon whom the entire care and responsibility of a family devolve. Not every one of the is as fortunate as the child of fifteen who earnestly said when she was complimented on the neat appearance of the home: “Oh, but it’s only right for me to keep things clean and nice, for since mama died, three years ago, papa has been awful good. He stays home nights and spends all he makes on us children and the house.