The Farmville Protests of 1963: Fighting Massive Resistance in Prince Edward County, VA
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Sandy Stokes walks down Main Street in Farmville to protest school closures in July of 1963.
An Eventful Journey from Christian Feminism to Christian Humanism
Mosaic: recovering surviving census records and reconstructing the familial history of Europe
Wild socialism – workers councils in revolutionary Berlin, 1918–1921
Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.–Mexico Border
British Nurseries, Head and Heart: McMillan, Owen and the genesis of the education/care dichotomy
History of social security in Australia
Abortion Policy and Social Suffering: the objectification of Romanian women’s bodies under communism (1966–1989)
Contesting the Postwar City: Working-Class and Growth Politics in 1940s Milwaukee
“Where I First Learned the Nature of Care”: Women and Violence on the Late Eighteenth-century Frontier
At Home with the Women’s Guild of Arts: gender and professional identity in London studios, c.1880–1925
The Race for Education: Class, White Tone, and Desegregated Schooling in South Africa
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Masculine responsibility across generations: living arrangements in a Norwegian parish around 1900
Harry Hopkins and Work Relief
Genealogies of the Dalit political: The transformation of Achhut from ‘Untouched’ to ‘Untouchable’ in early twentieth-century north India
Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective
Planning and Public-Private Partnerships: Essential Links in Early Federal Housing Policy
A Philosophy of Charity and the Debates over the English and Irish Poor Laws in the 1830s
Marriage and the British Army in the Long Eighteenth Century: ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’
‘Our own paper’: evaluating the impact of Women’s Cricket magazine, 1930–1967
Liberty and Liberticide: The Role of America in Nineteenth-Century British Radicalism
Sex Ratio Effects on Marital Formation and Dissolution, 1980–2000
Under Household Government: Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts
The Public Voice of Women
Becoming Poor in Eighteenth-Century Turin
Days of rage: America’s radical underground, the FBI, and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence
One nation under God: how corporate America invented Christian America
Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770–1900
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On Grounds of Poorhouse, Cecil County Insane Asylum Opens in 1887
Poorhouse, Hospital & Lunatick-House of Northampton
Charles C Hoffman (1865 – 81)
Watching women’s liberation, 1970: feminism’s pivotal year on the network news
‘Robert Schumann’s mental illnesses. (Genius and madness)’, by Mlle Dr Pascal (1908a)
The Works Progress Administration
The Social Welfare History Project
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created by Executive Order #7034 on May 6, 1935. President Roosevelt had the authority for this Executive Order via the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The WPA was created to offer direct government employment to the jobless. The unemployment rate was about 20% at the time the WPA was created.
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
