In the nineteenth century, French scientific institutions became interested in young “mental calculators,” arithmetical prodigies able to quickly and accurately perform complex mental calculations. The first scientists to study mental calculators were phrenologists who sought to prove the existence of a calculating organ in the frontal lobe.
Dangerous World, Dangerous Liberties: Aspects of the Smith Act Prosecutions
Beginning an ‘Extraordinary Opportunity’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Molly Dewson, and the expansion of women’s boundaries in the Democratic Party, 1924–1934
The Rise and Decline of Psychiatric Hydrotherapy
‘Rapid tranquillisation’: an historical perspective on its emergence in the context of the development of antipsychotic medications
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Cruel Modernity
South-Eastern Europe: challenges and prospects for family history
Detroit’s Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism
Well-Being and Growth: A Diachronic Discourse
Winning for Losing: A New Look at Harry Bridges and the “Big Strike” of 1934
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
Social Welfare History Project
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House was founded in 1894 by the Alumnae Association of Normal College (now known as Hunter College of the City University of New York) as a free kindergarten for the children of indigent immigrants. Since then, we have remained at the forefront of community advocacy and social and educational change. We have long been a center of community leadership in addressing such issues as affordable housing, poor working conditions, health care, hunger, early childhood education, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, juvenile delinquency, crime prevention and long-term care for older adults.