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Social Welfare and Public Health

 

Edmonds-Cady, Cynthia, “Mobilizing Motherhood: Race, Class, and the Uses of Maternalism in the Welfare Rights Movement,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Fall–Winter 2009), 206–22.

Kammer, David, “‘A Matter Very Close to My Heart’: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Tingleys, and the Creation of the Carrie Tingley Hospital for Crippled Children,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85 (Winter 2010), 39–60.

Kornbluh, Felicia, “Who Shot fap? The Nixon Welfare Plan and the Transformation of American Politics,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, 1 (Dec. 2008), 125–50.

Lowitt, Richard, “Power for the People: Developing the Grand River Dam Authority, Part 2, 1945–1964,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Fall 2009), 260–93.

Melzer, Richard, “New Deal Success or ‘Noble Failure’? Bosque Farms’ Early Years as a Federal Resettlement Project, 1935–1939,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85 (Winter 2010), 1–37.

Richert, Lucas, “Pills, Policy Making, and Perceptions: Inside the fda during the ‘Reagan Revolution,’ 1981–1982,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 1, 2009), 41–63.

Spar, Debora, and Krysztof Bebenek, “To the Tap: Public versus Private Water Provision at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Business History Review, 83 (Winter 2009), 675–702.

Usmanov, N. V., “Rukovoditel’ Ufimsko-Ural’skogo otdeleniia ara polkovnik Bell” (Colonel Bell, the head of the Ufa-Ural branch of the ara), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow) (no. 3, 2009), 224–30. In Russian.

 

Chiu, Belinda H. Y., “Carrie’s Will: A Family Narrative of the Phelps-Stokes Fund” (Teachers College, Columbia University, United States of America, 2009). Order No. DA3348346.

King, Edward Larkin, “An Examination of the Right to Refuse Medical Care in New York State from 1914 to 2008 by a Competent Adult, a Mentally Retarded Individual, and a Child” (Dowling College, 2009). Order No. DA3353006.

Lochbaum Janovetz, Cindy, “Analyzing the Leadership Issues Involved in the Evolution of Deaf Education in Central Illinois after 1950” (Illinois State University, 2008). Order No. DA3353091.

Rivers, Loretta Gail, “Southern Baptist Settlement Work in New Orleans, 1946–1969” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3353005.

Weems, Jonathan Allen, “A Challenge Constantly Renewed: Medicare and the Struggle for National Health Insurance” (University of Memphis, 2008). Order No. DA3351298.

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