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Colonial Families and Cultures of Health: Glimpses of Illness and Domestic Medicine in Private Records in New Zealand and Australia, 1850-1910

This article draws on both published and unpublished private family writing to examine how European settler colonial families in southeastern Australia and New Zealand negotiated worlds of sickness and health between 1850 and 1910.

The turn to transnational labor history and the study of global trade unionism

The transnational turn in the humanities and social sciences has had slender impact on the study of trade unionism in Britain. In industrial relations and labor history, the fields where most research into trade unions has been conducted, approaches have remained insular.

Constructing the grave: competing burial ideals in nineteenth-century England

Psychology’s struggle for existence: Second edition, 1913.

Studies of family living in the United States and other countries: An analysis of material and method (1935)

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The John Lennon letters

Report on the Scientific Study of the Mental and Physical Conditions of Childhood: With Particular Reference to Children of Defective Constitution, and with Recommendations as to Education and Training (1895)

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Tragedy or farce? The repetition of Australian industrial relations history, 1929 and 2007

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Tragedy or farce? The repetition of Australian industrial relations history, 1929 and 2007

How we forgot the Cold War: a historical journey across America

1939 Amendments to the US Social Security Act

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Child labor photos from 1911

Library of Congress

Adrienne Pagnette, an adolescent French illiterate, speaks almost no English. Is probably 14 or 15. Doffs on top floor spinning room in Glenallen Mill. Location: Winchendon, Mass.

History of US Social Security numbers

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San Francisco’s Chinatown Community: A World Apart

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Despite Chinatown’s shady reputation, it was a tight-knit community whose residents were familiar with one another. Parents allowed their children, who were highly cherished (especially since there were so few of them due to the early lack of women and families), to roam the streets without supervision during the day. The sense of all of Chinatown as being a children’s playground was deftly captured by the photographer Arnold Genthe, who considered Chinese children to be some of his favorite subjects.

The Emergence of Modern Psychology in China, 1876 – 1922

In Western countries modern psychology originated out of the convergence of philosophy and science,
embedded in the social change. Modern psychology in China did not grow out of an indigenous socio-cultural
root, but was instead imported from Western countries approximately during 1876 to 1922, when China was
being colonized and reformed. A political, social and cultural analysis explains the emergence and formation of
modern psychology in China

‘Labor is back?’: The AFL-CIO during the presidency of John J. Sweeney, 1995–2009

This article assesses the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) during the presidency of John J. Sweeney, which lasted from 1995 until 2009. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including press accounts and the AFL-CIO’s own papers, it provides one of the first scholarly assessments of the entire Sweeney presidency.

Neurologic Heuristics and Artistic Whimsy: The Cerebral Cartography Of Wilder Penfield

Penfield was an early leader in efforts to map the cerebral cortex via direct electrical stimulation of the brain. In 1937, Penfield introduced an entirely new concept for illustrating the relative sizes and locations of discrete functional regions within the sensorimotor cortex–—the homunculus—to exemplify the “order and comparative extent” of specific functional regions.

Faces of Opposition: Juvenile Resistance, High Treason, and the People’s Court in Nazi Germany

Analysis of the sixty-nine juveniles tried for high treason before the People’s Court in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945, based on the available court records, finds that juvenile resistance in Nazi Germany possessed a distinct form and character; it was a phenomenon rather than an exceptional act.

Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848–1865

1935 Social Security Act

An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes.

Age patterns of migration among Korean adults in early 20th-century Seoul

‘Till Death Us Do Part’: spousal homicide in early modern Russia

The history of domestic violence, let alone domestic homicide, in Russia has yet to be written. This article focuses on the legal attitudes to domestic and especially marital homicide in early modern Russia and explores types of and methods used in spousal killings.

All in the family: The realignment of American democracy since the 1960s

‘A king in his own household’: domestic discipline and family violence in early modern Europe reconsidered

Are you experienced? How psychedelic consciousness transformed modern art

Rat Park, A Comic on (the History of) the Psychology of Addiction

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The Psychology of Hunger

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In November 1944, 36 young men took up residence in the corridors and rooms of the University of Minnesota football stadium. They were not members of the football team. Rather, they were volunteers preparing for a nearly yearlong experiment on the psychological and physiological effects of starvation. Known as the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, the study was a project of the newly established Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene at the University of Minnesota, an interdisciplinary research institution with an emphasis on nutrition and human biology.

Mauritius 1938: the origins of a milestone in colonial trade union legislation

This article analyses the sociopolitical interactions that shaped an early colonial union statute that constituted a milestone because of its early passage, draconian nature and wider influence in the British Empire.

Judicial archives and the history of the Romanian family: domestic conflict and the Orthodox Church in the eighteenth century

Coming to Grips with a “New” State of Consciousness: The Study of Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep in the 1960s

The recognition of rapid-eye-movement sleep (REM) and its association with dreaming in 1953 by Aserinsky and Kleitman opened a new world to explore in the brain. Discussions at two major symposia in the early 1960s reveal that a state with characteristics resembling both wakefulness and sleep was overturning accepted views of the regulation of the two states.

Behind the Mask: The Singular Life of James Dean’s Analyst

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In 1947, Muensterberger emigrated from Holland to the US, where he treated celebrities such as James Dean and Nelson Rockefeller and counted Pablo Picasso, Walt Disney and Andy Warhol among his social circle.

WPA sign at Glenmora carrying legend praising President Roosevelt and his new deal program (1938)

WPA Photographs | Parishes Outside Orleans

How children of the world united at a Soviet school

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In 1933 a unique boarding school was set up in Russia to provide a home for the children of revolutionaries around the world – the children of Mao, Tito and La Pasionaria passed through its doors. It still exists, though few of its pupils today are foreign.

The Day Wall Street exploded: a story of America in its first age of terror

Whitney M. Young, Jr. (1921-1971)

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He taught social work at the University of Nebraska and Creighton University. In his next position as dean of social work at Atlanta University, Young supported alumni in their boycott of the Georgia Conference of Social Welfare, which had a poor record of placing African Americans in good jobs.

75 years of social security

New Zealand Herald

Prime Ministers Rt Hon M J Savage at his desk, Parliament Filed 20 October 1938

Nostalgia: The bittersweet history of a psychological concept.

The concept of nostalgia has changed substantially both denotatively and connotatively over the span of its 300-year history. This article traces the evolution of the concept from its origins as a medical disease to its contemporary understanding as a psychological construct.

The archaeology of class war: the Colorado Coalfield strike of 1913–1914

The Fabian window

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Asylums and Hospitals: Postcards, Public Perception, and Purpose

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. Most histories of early asylums have been lost except for the significant or unusual ones. Tracing the history of these early institutions, which emphasized care for the common patient, will allow current researchers to understand the actions and attitudes that previously doomed such programs, saving time and money.

WPA workmen are protected by safety practices. This view shows safety sign on WPA job near Monroe (1936)

WPA Photographs | Parishes Outside Orleans

The birth and death of Villa 21

From 1962 to 1966 David Cooper ran an experimental hospital ward in Villa 21 of Shenley Hospital, Hertfordshire, England. In the histories of mid-twentieth-century psychiatry and anti-psychiatry, this ward has been almost entirely forgotten, overshadowed by the figure of R.D. Laing and his Kingsley Hall experiment.

The woman behind the New Deal: the life and legacy of Frances Perkins – social security, unemployment insurance, and the minimum wage

Nuisances and community in mid-Victorian England: the attractions of inspection

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease

Their Fathers’ Daughters: Women’s Social Identities in Fifteenth-century Florence

Based on an analysis of how the identities of women were recorded in legal and familial documents, this article argues that women’s social identities were primarily and permanently linked to that of their natal families, particularly to their fathers.

Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD

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‘Pauper Lunatics and their Treatment’, by Joshua Harrison Stallard (1870)

In the pamphlet reproduced here, Stallard draws attention to the build-up of lunatics in workhouses due to lack of asylum beds. He also argues for the increased use of home care for lunatics instead of continually expanding asylum provision, and points to the need for training of asylum doctors.