History (4,904 posts)

Trouble at Tyson Alley: James Mark Baldwin’s arrest in a Baltimore bordello.

While this is one of the most notorious events in the early history of American psychology, almost nothing has been known about the incident itself, because both Baldwin and Hopkins took great pains to keep these details private.

US Women’s Bureau Directors Gallery

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Mary Anderson (served 1920 – 1944)

Feminine by Design: re-engendering mural painting at the fin de siècle

Special Issue: Behaviorism at 100: The Legacies of Watson’s Behaviorist Manifesto

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Danvers State Insane Asylum

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America’s Great Depression and Roosevelt’s New Deal: Relief Programs

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Barracks at the Gunflint Civilian Conservation Corps camp in winter, north of Grand Marais, Minnesota

Joseph Rowntree: A dynasty of philanthropy and research on social problems

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Joseph Rowntree (1836-1925)

Offices of The Suffragist

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Frances Pepper (left) and Elizabeth Smith (right) working in the offices of The Suffragist, the weekly journal published by the Congressional Union and National Woman’s Party from 1913 to 1921.

Reformatory Schools: For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders

Daughter of a Unitarian minister and schoolmaster, the penal reformer and educationist Mary Carpenter (1807–77) grew up in a pious family with a strong sense of obligation to those who were less fortunate. Moved by the appalling circumstances of destitute children in Bristol, she established her first ragged school in 1846. In her bid to improve the difficult lives of juvenile delinquents, her enlightened philosophy was one of rehabilitation rather than retribution, emphasising the importance of giving children a sense of self-worth.

Slum dwelling in Los Angeles, 1941

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Rosehill Courts, demolition ceremonies, 9-2-41

The Troubles (1968-1998)

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The conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century is known as the Troubles. Over 3,600 people were killed and thousands more injured.

‘My Father Was an Incredibly Honest Person’: The Myths and Stereotypes in the Narratives of the Descendants of Bohemian Nobility

Mexicans entering the United States. United States immigration station, El Paso, Texas (1938)

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Structural and diffusion effects in the Dutch fertility transition, 1870-1940

Four young children, Protestant Orphan Asylum, St. Paul, Minnesota (1914-27?)

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Photograph of three young boys and a girl standing next to a Christmas tree

Anti-American Themes in British Radicalism from the “Tariff of Abominations” to the Crisis of Secession: The Case of Thomas Perronet Thompson

America’s self-perception has long been influenced by the opinions of America held by foreigners. Admiration for the United States was strong among British radicals in the early and mid-nineteenth century, but there was an alternative position, one that was negative toward America.

The Theory of Collective Memory and the 1953 Short Creek Arizona Polygamous Raid

A key question in collective memory research is how such memories are created and shared over time. This study consisted of a qualitative content analysis of documentary artifacts to determine whether there is a collective memory of the 1953 Arizona Short Creek Raid and, if so, how it developed and contributes to an ongoing sense of identity for some Fundamentalist Mormons.

13th International Congress of Psychology (ICP) in Stockholm 1951

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Overcoming Inner Division: post-suffrage strategies in the organised German women’s movement

‘Forgotten Female Soldiers in an Unknown Army’: German women working behind the lines, 1914–1918

Sibling Position and Marriage Timing in the Netherlands, 1840-1922: A Comparison across Social Classes, Local Contexts, and Time

The Hudson River School of Incarceration: Sing Sing Prison in Antebellum New York

New York’s Sing Sing Prison’s first two decades coincided with the emergence of the Hudson River School of Painting. The differences between the two were dramatic: the Hudson River School emphasized an idealized “natural magnificence” whereas the prison extracted silent, profitable labor through routine beatings.

A Nest of Subversive Propaganda: Progressive Children’s Arts Education from the New Deal to the McCarthy Era

Alcohol therapy: medicinal drinking through the ages

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Picture of a translation of Roger Bacon’s works: The cure of old age and preservation of use
Roger Bacon suggests alcohol may defend the body from corruption

Trends and risk factors of maternal mortality in late-nineteenth-century Netherlands

They gave the crowd plenty fun: West Indian cricket and its relationship with the British-resident Caribbean Diaspora

Spectrum, trajectory and the role of the state in workers’ self-management

In developing our understanding, we utilise documents from Titoist Yugoslavia, and surveys and case study interviews conducted in Argentina and Venezuel

The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India

Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences

Deprived of touch: How maternal and sensory deprivation theory converged in shaping early debates over autism

In 1943, a distinguished child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, Leo Kanner, published what would become a landmark article: a description of 11 children who suffered from a distinct disorder he called ‘infantile autism’. While initially quite obscure, in the early 1950s Kanner’s report garnered much attention, as clinicians and researchers interpreted these case studies as exemplifying the ill-effects of maternal deprivation, a new theory that rapidly gained currency in the United States.

A brief conceptual history of Einfühlung: 18th-century Germany to post-World War II U.S. psychology.

This brief conceptual history, modeled on Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte, adds to earlier histories of empathy. It showed that Johann Gottfried Herder, not Robert Vischer, invented Einfühlung as an objective scholarly method during 18th-century absolutist–relativist disputes.

OUR BACK PAGES: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SIXTIES Out of the blue: an airman’s unlikely journey through the Vietnam War, the Pentagon and the radical left

An exploratory digital analysis of the early years of G. Stanley Hall’s American Journal of Psychology and Pedagogical Seminary.

Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American women activists in the Cold War

Knowing their Place: domestic service in twentieth-century Britain

Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge

Disorders of inattention and hyperactivity: The production of responsible subjects

This article explores some of the normative commitments which persist in the literature on behavioural interventions for disorders of inattention and hyperactivity.

Foreigners and Women Have the Same Problems: Binational Marriages, Women’s Grassroots Organizing, and the Quest for Legal Equality in Post-1968 Germany