History (4,555 posts)

The mid-twentieth century baby boom in Sweden – changes in the educational gradient of fertility for women born 1915–1950

Roy Takeno (Editor) and group reading Manzanar paper [i.e. Los Angeles Times] in front of office, Yuichi Hirata, Nabuo Samamura – Manzanar Relocation Center, California [1943]

Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America

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Watching the Books: The Federal Government’s Suppression of the Washington Cooperative Bookshop 1939–1950

Exhuming Passions: The Pressure of the Past in Ireland and Australia

Was There Ever a Time when Girls Weren’t in Trouble?

The Neuropathology of Morality: Germany 1930–1960

Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British World, 1922–1970

‘Dreams of Utopia’: the infant welfare movement in interwar Croydon

An Echo of Black Slavery: Emancipation, Forced Labour and Australia in 1933

Advancing further the history of Soviet psychology: Moving forward from dominant representations in Western and Soviet psychology.

Why “Race Suicide”? Cultural Factors in U.S. Fertility Decline, 1903–1908

Academic McCarthyism in the District of Columbia: The Termination of Professor Richard Reichard at George Washington University

The spirit of social work: Addresses (1911)

Revisiting Erving Goffman’s Asylums and “The Insanity of Place”

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The profits of unpaid work. ‘Assisting labour’ of women in the early modern urban Dutch economy

Patterns of similarity and difference between the vocabularies of psychology and other subjects.

The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600–1800: early modern ‘convents of pleasure’

Dissent in the coalfields: miners, federal politics, and union reform in the United States, 1968–1973

Public Cooperation with the Household Expenditure Enquiry, 1953-1954

Ritual and Conflict: the social relations of childbirth in early modern England

He is so silly he would rather have a half pence than a shilling: Discovering the history of learning disability

History of University of Iowa School of Social Work

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The Outsiders: Being a Sketch of the Social Work of the Salvation Army (1905-6)

Social Work: Libraries exhibit salutes school history at VCU

VCU First class of the School of Social Work and Public Health pose with Dr. Henry H. Hibbs Jr. in front of the monument to Dr. Hunter H. McGuire, former professor of surgery at the Medical College of Virginia.

Syphilis …. six out of ten cured because they did not wait too long (1941)

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection

From deviance to diversity?

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Great aspirations: The postwar American college counseling center.

In the decade after World War II, psychologists, eager to bring the benefits of counseling to larger numbers, convinced hundreds of American colleges and universities to establish counseling centers.