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Recent Scholarship

Social Welfare and Public Health

 

Beyerlein, Kraig, and David Sikkink, “Sorrow and Solidarity: Why Americans Volunteered for 9/11 Relief Efforts,” Social Problems, 55 (May 2008), 190–215.

Black, Allida M., “The Challenges and Joys of Teaching Human Rights,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (April 2008), 5–6.

Curran, Laura, and Stefani Pfeiffer, “‘You Can’t Tie and Untie Love That Fast’: Family Preservation and Reunification in Midcentury Philadelphia,” Social Service Review, 82 (March 2008), 61–91.

Kramer, Elsa F., “Recasting the Tribe of Ishmael: The Role of Indianapolis’s Nineteenth-Century Poor in Twentieth-Century Eugenics,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (March 2008), 36–64.

Morris, Patricia McGrath, “Reinterpreting Abraham Flexner’s Speech, ‘Is Social Work a Profession?’ Its Meaning and Influence on the Field’s Early Professional Development,” Social Service Review, 82 (March 2008), 29–60.

Ruswick, Brent, “The Measure of Worthiness: The Rev. Oscar McCulloch and the Pauper Problem, 1877–1891,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (March 2008), 3–35.

Sogrin, V. V., “Tri kliuchevye problemy v issledovanii istorii Novogo kursa F. D. Ruzvel’ta” (Three key problems in the study of the history of F. D. Roosevelt’s New Deal), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow) (no. 5, 2007), 3–24. In Russian.

 

Castles, Katherine Lynn, “‘Little Tardies’: Mental Retardation, Race, and Class in American Society, 1945–1965” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3269504.

Greene, Kyra R., “The Role of Protest Waves, Cultural Frames, and Institutional Activism in the Evolution of American Disability Rights Policies” (Stanford University, 2007). Order No. DA3267519.

McLeod, Kari Suzanne, “Health Matters: Public Understandings of Health in 1950s America” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267318.

Musher, Sharon Ann, “A New Deal for Art” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3266652.

Narber, Gregg Ross, “How You Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm? Mapping New Deal Cultural Democracy in Iowa” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3265969.

Padilla, Jalynn Olsen, “Army of ‘cripples’: Northern Civil War Amputees, Disability, and Manhood in Victorian America” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3277826.

Sribnick, Ethan G., “Rehabilitating Child Welfare: Children and Public Policy, 1945–1980” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3280024.

 

Stuart, John A., and John F. Stack Jr., eds., The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy, and Community Building, 1933–1940. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xx, 243 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3191-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

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