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Drawing on extensive archival sources, ego documents, interviews and Soviet publications, this article explores the peculiarities of adoption practices in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania (LSSR) after the 1944 reoccupation.

Carson College was one of several privately endowed orphanages established in the early 20th century, and from 1917-1960, was administered by Elsa Ueland, a pioneer in the fields of social work and progressive education.

Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine and science in early modern England.

This article examines the emotional landscape of courtship and engagements in seventeenth-century Sweden. By using a framework by Illouz, understanding courtship as a cultural technique aimed at creating certainty in socially risky situations, the courtship of two women by one student is examined. The analysis moves from the intimate interactions of the couple to the family, the community and lastly the ecclesiastical and university authorities.

Elizabeth Stuyvesant of New York City, formerly of Cincinnati, was a professional dancer. She was active in settlement work and in the campaign for birth control. On July 4, 1917, she was arrested while picketing the White House for suffrage and sentenced to three days in District Jail.

Historically, artistic representations of adultery have been used to raise questions about the importance of love and sexual desire in marriage. Artists have also used their works to explore themes of culpability and punishment, and to explore the consequences of infidelity for the families of the adulterers. Above: The Stolen Kiss 1787 by JH Fragonard and/or M Gerard

Nobel Prize winning author Sinclair Lewis sequestered himself on his Vermont farm during the summer of 1935 and hammered away on his latest novel. He was in a hurry, fearing that real-world events might overtake his narrative. For his plot, Lewis drew from national and international headlines of the day, but he made the main character a Vermont newspaper editor and set most of the story among the green valleys of his adopted home.

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In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the journalist broke free of his contrarian clichés to illuminate the origins of 1960s counterculture. Above: Jerry Garcia and Rock Scully, of the Grateful Dead, speak to Tom Wolfe at the corner of Haight and Ashbury, 1966.

Women’s peace camp, Greenham Common, 12 December 1982

The promises of the Prozac century have fallen short; the number of novel, therapeutically significant medications successfully completing development shrinks every year; and the demand for better treatments constantly grows. Answering these hardships is a renewed optimism concerning the efficacy of controlled psychedelic therapy, a renaissance that has seen the resurgence of a familiar concept: intoxication as model psychosis. And yet, little has been made of where this peculiar idea originates. Why did we come to liken psychosis to intoxication, and why is this an idea we find so hard to shake?

In what he termed a “labor aristocracy,” Eric Hobsbawm saw echoes of what Marx and Engels had described. Hobsbawm posited that the anti-socialist, “workerist” tradition of union politics in the United States and the UK may be reflective of a powerful, elite layer of workers in the two countries’ labor markets. These white, often Protestant, male workers were comparatively highly paid and benefited from their position in capitalist production. Their rather advantaged market position put them at odds with more precarious workers who were more likely to advance universalistic programs for political transformation. Above: Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, December 1920