History (4,904 posts)

The faces of death: regional differentiation in cause-specific mortality in the past

‘S.W.’ and C.G. Jung: mediumship, psychiatry and serial exemplarity

The personal is scientific: Women, gender, and the production of sexological knowledge in Germany and Austria, 1900–1931.

Mother with Eight Children in Tenement Kitchen (circa 1910)

Community Service Society Photographs

Feminism and/in/as psychology: The public sciences of sex and gender

Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage

NZ History

This portrait of Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage was taken in 1935, the year the Labour government he led swept into power. This government is best remembered for its landmark social welfare reforms, especially the Social Security Act of 1938 and the state housing scheme.

‘Without decontextualisation’: the Stanley Royd Museum and the progressive history of mental health care

Holocaust Survivors In Canada Offers Cautionary Tale, Says Author

The Manitoban

But after 1950, with the expansion of immigration law to permit the arrival of more Jewish immigrants, government social service provision was stronger and the Jewish community was larger and more prepared for new arrivals. “They came to social services that were more developed, social workers who had better training, and also organizations and communities that had a better sense of the distinct needs of this particular immigrant group,” Goldberg said of the second wave.

Canada: Universal Policies

Library and Archives Canada PA-168131

Soup kitchen during the Great Depression

Debt, consumption and freedom: Social scientific representations of consumer credit in Anglo-America

“The name game”: Feminist protests of the DSM and diagnostic labels in the 1980s.

Keep your teeth clean

WPA | LoC

Lettuce wars: ten years of work and struggle in the fields of California

Residence patterns of the elderly in early eighteenth-century Iceland

Don’t wait

War Girls – poetry and prose by women in the First World War

C.C. Carstens: Interpreter of the Needs of Dependent Children

Social Welfare History Project

‘In the Backblocks of Capitalism’: Australian Student Activism in the Global 1960s

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) boys at work, Prince George’s County, Maryland (1935)

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington

Rape in the Icelandic Sagas: An Insight in the Perceptions about Sexual Assaults on Women in the Old Norse World

Anna “Star” Kempshall (1891 -1961): Social Worker and Director of Family Service Department of CSS

Social Welfare History Project

A war for the soul of America: a history of the culture wars

Ida B. Wells-Barnett , Jounalist, Civil Rights Activist and a Founding Member of the NAACP

Social Welfare History Project

Prototypes for modern living: planning, sociology and the model village in inter-war Romania

A Contextual Analysis of Nervous Force in Medico-Scientific and Literary Writings in English of the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries

The Nativist Movement in America: Religious Conflict in the Nineteenth Century

Richard Dadd: The Patient, the Artist, and the “Face of Madness”

History of psychological knowledge in Brazilian culture: Weaving threads on the loom of time.

Fires on the Border: the passionate politics of labor organizing on the Mexican frontera; ROSEMARY HENNESSY

‘At variance with the most elementary principles’: the state of British colonial lunatic asylums in 1863

Woody Guthrie, American Radical, by WILL KAUFMAN

Maine’s 19th-century socialist ideas sound contemporary

Sun Journal

The Populist Party of Maine (1891) echoed the sentiments of the national organization which declared that “The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these in turn despise the Republic and endanger liberty. …

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

First rank symptoms of schizophrenia: their nature and origin

Social work at Massey University

ANZASW DIGITAL HISTORY PROJECT

Allison and Merv Hancock at farewell party, 1982. Merv was the Director of the Social Work Unit at Massey University (1975-82).

Public housing in Welfare St, Homebush West, circa 1940.

University of Sydney Faculty of Education and Social Work

Public housing in Welfare St, Homebush West, circa 1940.

Tearing Down the Walls

Jacobin | New Museum

Marsha P. Johnson handing out flyers in support of the Gay Liberation Front in New York.

War’s Legacy to the Poor (1919)

Columbia University

“War has left a very direct legacy to the poor of New York City – a legacy that is being felt at the present time, ten months after the armistice, more acutely even than it was at the time of the armistice. This legacy is in the form of increases in the cost of the necessities of life, which is causing serious concern to those organizations which are confronted with the necessity of giving assistance to those who by reason of sickness or death are in need. . . .”

The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. By Robert Wald Sussman (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2014) 384 pp. $35.00