History (4,592 posts)

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State

The spatiality and temporality of urban violence: Histories, rhythms and ruptures

The limits of the ethnographic state in British India: The case of ‘foreign Asiatic vagrants’, c. 1860–1900

School of Racism: A Canadian History, 1830–1915

Let’s spend the night together Sex, pop music and British youth culture, 1950s-80s

A progressive education? How childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh schools

Possibly mad? Marital murder in the early twentieth century: a matched-case gender analysis of forensic psychiatric investigations in Sweden

“Mere guesswork”: Clarifying the role of intelligence, mentality, and psychometric testing in the diagnosis of “mental defectives” for sterilization in Alberta from 1929 to 1972.

Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

Red Reckoning: The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life

Defeating the ‘social danger’ of homosexuality while ‘forging the fatherland’: Sexual science and biotypology in Mexico’s national development, 1927–57

The hope and burden of early intervention: Parents’ educational planning for their deaf children in post-1960s Australia

History of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (DD Act)

Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher

Klaus Holzkamp smiled: Soviet psychology in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Cold War era.

A brief history of The King’s Fund Library and Information Service

Education as economic stimulus in the human capital century

Psychology and the fall of Communism: The special case of (East) Germany

“A phobia of numbers?” the labour movement and social surveys in the German Empire

The Prison before the Panopticon: Incarceration in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy

Making the Radical University: Identity and Politics on the American College Campus, 1966–1991

A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost

Operation Pedro Pan: The untold exodus of 14,048 Cuban children, revised edition

The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom

The Silent Treatment: Solitary Confinement’s Unlikely Origins

Public Domain Review | Prison Discipline Society

“Ground View of the New Prison in Philadelphia”, an 1827 illustration of Eastern State Penitentiary completed while it was still under construction

Town Planning, Housing, and the Politics of Sanitation and Public Health in the Gold Coast (Colonial Ghana), c. 1880 – 1950

History on trial: the abortion wars

Personality and mental disorders: sensitive character, melancholic type, and addenda

Nearly Six Decades in, Medicaid is Still Going Strong

Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946

On October 10, 1963, the Department of Justice signed a memo granting the FBI permission to conduct technical, wall-to-wall surveillance on Martin Luther King, Jr. The eloquence and reach of King following the March on Washington had so alarmed the Kennedy administration and the bureau that six weeks later they felt drastic steps had to be taken.

A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present [Volume 3]

The social care-taking of the city-kids. Determinants for day-care attendance in early twentieth-century southern Sweden

History of Social Work in Europe (1900–1960): Female Pioneers and Their Influence on the Development of International Social Organizations

What is Professional Social Work?

Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial

Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990: special issue introduction

The regulation of international migration in the Cold War: a synthesis and review of the literature

The Myth of Marijuana

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In 1938, Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra (above), head of the federal drug addiction hospital in Mexico City’s National Psychiatric Hospital, also known as La Castañeda, presented a paper, “The Myth of Marijuana,” that offered a radical path to ending one of Mexico’s first “drug wars.”