History (4,530 posts)

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?”

Headache: Through the Centuries

Making up intelligence scales: De Sanctis’s and Binet’s tests, 1905 and after

Women Educators and Transnational Networking in the Twentieth-Century Nursery School Movement

Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South

Australia: Present and Past Histories Australia: Present and Past Histories

Housewives and Citizens: domesticity and the women’s movement in England 1928–64CAITRIONA BEAUMONT Housewives and Citizens: domesticity and the women’s movement in England 1928–64

The Women’s Charter: American Communists and the Equal Rights Amendment debate

An introduction to emigration sources for family historians

Engineers for change: competing visions of technology in 1960s America

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Asylums and Hospitals

The process of American psychiatric care started with the development of lunatic asylums during the early nineteenth century. There were 122 state supported lunatic asylums opened in the United States before 1900.

The need for contextual approaches to the history of mental testing

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‘Rushing the growler’: can rushing and working-class politicization in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Women at Work, 1860–1939: How Different Industries Shaped Women’s Experiences

Storefront revolutionary: Martin Sostre’s Afro-Asian Bookshop, black liberation culture, and the New Left, 1964–75

Household economies, social norms and practices of unpaid market work in Europe from the sixteenth century to the present

Welfare Bulletin (1914)

Frank Hirahara in Heart Mountain Internment Camp, Wyoming (1942)

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Frank Hirahara standing in snow in foreground at far right, with the many structures of the Heart Mountain Internment Camp spread across the middle, and Heart Mountain in the background.