History (4,555 posts)

History of institutions providing out-of-home residential care for children

Did she kill him? Addiction, adultery and arsenic in Victorian Britain

National Archives

WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife sitting in front of their shack home on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC

This man said that last year he thought maybe he would be a little better off when he got the WPA work and had a small amount of cash coming in but that he was worse off now. “Last year I had a cow and some chickens and I had to sell my cow and eat my chickens. I get worse off every year”

Efficiency and relief: a programme of social work (1906)

Davis Inlet: Canada’s third world

“We are a lost people.” That description by an Innu chief seemed fitting when a shocking video of six gas-sniffing teens, screaming they wanted to die, was broadcast to the world. The once-nomadic Innu of Labrador have struggled under a haze of isolation, poverty and addiction ever since their 1967 settlement. A second relocation, this time from the shantytown of Davis Inlet to the new community of Natuashish, offered much promise, but it was just the beginning of a long healing process.

Driving on Speed: Long-Haul Truck Drivers and Amphetamines in the Postwar Period

In this essay, Kevin Riley examines the history of amphetamine use by long-haul truck drivers in the United States in the postwar era, providing an extended analysis of the complex ways stimulant use was embedded in industry practice.

Life on “skid row” in Baltimore

Baltimore Sun

Skid Row Baltimore 1982. At one time, skid rows were confined to a certain area of the city, near the urban center and on the beaten track. Then, urban renewal and decentralization of the city had taken their toll, leaving the Baltimore skid rows less clearly defined and the population dispersed throughout low-income sections of the city.

Spread of Cohabitation and Proximity between Kin in Contemporary Italy

Mandatory reporting laws for child sexual abuse in Australia: A legislative history

A psychology for pedagogy: Intelligence testing in USSR in the 1920s

Searching for South Asian Intelligence: Psychometry in British India, 1919–1940

Preventing ‘robotised women workers’: women, sport and the workplace in Scotland 1919–1939

Another Marriage Choice: A Study of Uxorilocal Marriage in Taiwan, Comparative Research of Taipei (Urban) and Xinchu (Rural), 1906-1944

Emotional Encounters: Indigenous Peoples in the Dutch East India Company’s Interactions with the South Lands Emotional Encounters: Indigenous Peoples in the Dutch East India Company’s Interactions with the South Lands

Cohabitation from illegal to institutionalized practice: the case of Norway 1972–2010

Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral: nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Intergenerational income mobility in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1925–1958, before the rise of the welfare state

Matters of Sex and Gender in F. J. Gall’s Organology

Historical review of sexual offence and child sexual abuse legislation in Australia: 1788–2013

“Social physical exercise?” Football, industrial paternalism, and professionalism in west Dunbartonshire, Scotland, c. 1870–1900 “Social physical exercise?” Football, industrial paternalism, and professionalism in west Dunbartonshire, Scotland, c. 1870–1900

Liberalism forever: Intellectual history, social history and the global adventures of a concept Liberalism forever: intellectual history, social history and the global adventures of a concept

Red Unionism During the Depression and Under McCarthyism: Reflections on Mine-Mill, the Workers Unity League, and the Minneapolis Teamsters

Revisiting the rightward turn: Max Rafferty, education, and modern American politics

History of child protection legislation

How well did the nineteenth century census record women’s ‘regular’ employment in England and Wales? A case study of Hertfordshire in 1851

Poor Old Folks: Have Our Methods of Poverty Measurement Blinded Us to Who is Poor?

Breaking the silence. Family ties and social networks of the deaf. A case study of East Flanders, Belgium, 1750–1950

Population Knowledge and the Practice of Guardianship

John W. Thompson – Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction

The mid-twentieth century fertility boom from a global perspective

Mollie Orshansky, “Counting the Poor: Another Look at the Poverty Profile,” Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 1, January 1965, pp. 3-29

Glasgow Life: Poor law archives

Differentiation between Seizure and Hysteria in a Tenth-Century Persian Text: Hidāyat of al-Akhawayni (d. 983 AD) Differentiation between Seizure and Hysteria in a Tenth-Century Persian Text

‘Challenging White Australia’

‘Wandering Jews’? British Jewry, outdoor recreation and the far-left, 1900–1939

Taming Passion for the Public Good: Policing Sex in the Early Republic

From Hunter to Orshansky: An Overview of (Unofficial) Poverty Lines in the United States from 1904 to 1965

This paper is an overview of an effort to answer the following question: “When analysts before Mollie Orshansky mentioned dollar figures in connection with the terms ‘poverty,’ ‘minimum subsistence,’ or ‘low income,’ what dollar figures did they mention?”