Pittsburgh VA
Irene Grant was the first Director of Social Work under the Veterans Bureau.
Enshrined in Law: Legislative Justifications for the Removal of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Children in Colonial and Post-Colonial Australia
An Evil Hitherto Unchecked: Eugenics and the 1917 Ontario Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Mentally Defective and Feeble-Minded
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Workers, parties and a “New Deal:” A comparative analysis of corporatist alliances in Mexico, and the United States, 1910–1940
Old Age, New Science: Gerontologists and Their Biosocial Visions, 1900–1960
The Great Depression
History.com
Sculptor George Segal’s tribute to Depression-era America is on display at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Thyra J. Edwards
NABSW
Edwards believed that social work should not be limited to a narrow focus or single discipline, such as psychoanalysis or sociology, but should also encompass political economy, social history, women’s issues, race relations, labor issues, and world affairs.
Replication in Psychology: A Historical Perspective (interactive – click here)
History of the McGill School of Social Work
McGill Archives
McGill School of Social Work Graduating Class of 1930
Psychiatric care at a national mental institution during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39): Santa Isabel de Leganes
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
On the Centrality of Action: Social Science, Historical Logics, and Max Weber’s Legacy
Ernest Becker and Stanley Milgram: Twentieth-century students of evil.
The revival and decline of rank and file movements in Britain during the 1930s
Proximate Strangers and Familiar Antagonists: Violence on an Intimate Frontier
Eugene Kinckle Jones The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940
The nature of delusion: psychologically explicable? psychologically inexplicable? philosophically explicable? Part 2
Imagining the Unimaginable: Parricide in Early Modern England and Wales, c.1600-c.1760
Entrenched reductionisms: The bête noire of psychiatry.
Pavel Ivanovich Karpov (1873-1932?) – the Russian Prinzhorn: art of the insane in Russia
Psychogeriatrics in England in the 1950s: greater knowledge with little impact on provision of services
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
Early Roots of Western Medicine and a Pioneer of Social Work in Korea: Dr. Kung Sun Oh (1878–1963)
Invisible immigrants: the English in Canada since 1945
Psychiatric governance, völkisch corporatism, and the German Research Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (1912-26). Part 1
Family Authority, Violence against Parents, and Parricide in Russia, 1600-1800
No Irish Need Deny: Evidence for the Historicity of NINA Restrictions in Advertisements and Signs
Activism in the US: Civil Rights Movements
DPLA
Still image from a WALB newsfilm clip of Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy leading a kneel-in and being arrested in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 27
Migration, settlement and belonging in Europe 1500–1930s: comparative perspectives
Masculinity and the paradox of violence in American fiction, 1950–1975
Efforts to Curtail the Spread of Adult Entertainment in Portland, Oregon, through the Use of Public Policy and Urban Planning, 1970-1987
Arriving at Ellis Island (1907)
Nixon’s marijuana problem: youth politics and ‘law and order,’ 1968–72
Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain, 1290–1834
Living on the edge: welfare and the urban poor in 1930s Beijing
The Door: History
The making of the Irish poor law, 1815–43
Bipolar disorder and its outcomes: two cohorts, 1875-1924 and 1994-2007, compared
History of Post-Secondary Education, Social and Health Funding in Canada
The British Working Class, 1832–1940
Canada’s global villagers: CUSO in development, 1961-1986
Seafarers Past: An uncaptioned photo from SCI’s Archives used in a recent presentation on the history and future health and welfare of seafarers
Experiences of Charity, 1250–1650
‘The Germans are beating us at our own game: American eugenics and the German sterilization law of 1933
Multiculturalism’s categories and transnational ties: the Bangladeshi campaign for independence in Britain, 1971
“We have our own struggle”: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker and the avant-garde of community action, the Lower East Side, 1968
Beyond trade unions’ strategy? The social construction of precarious workers organizing in the city of Buenos Aires
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America’s Favorite Welfare Program
Woman’s Special Enemy: Female Enmity in Criminal Discourse during the Long Nineteenth Century
National Welfare Rights Organization (1966-1975)
