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Social Welfare and Public Health

 

Agnew, Elizabeth N., “Meeting Needs, Promoting Peace: Jane Addams and Her 21st Century Counterparts,” Soundings, 90 (Fall–Winter 2007), 207–44.

Amstutz, David Lee, “Nebraska’s Live Stock Sanitary Commission and the Rise of American Progressivism,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Fall 2008), 259–75.

de Forest, Jennifer, “Conservatism Goes to College: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in the Rise of Conservative Student Networks,” History of Higher Education Annual, 26 (2007), 103–27.

Meyer, Jonny Gerig, “Sending Mixed Messages to Congress: Mennonite Involvement in Proposed National Health Care Reform, 1992–1994,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 83 (April 2009), 181–220.

Wagner, Michael A., “‘As Gold Is Tried in the Fire, So Hearts Must Be Tried by Pain’: The Temperance Movement in Georgia and the Local Option Law of 1885,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Spring 2009), 30–54.

 

Camp-Landis, Stephen Kenneth, “Redistributive Policy in an Individualistic Culture: Welfare Reform in Pennsylvania, 1996–2002” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3325589.

Schmidt, Deanna H., “The (Re)Production of Social Space: Community, Homeownership, and Stability, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1970–1990” (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2008). Order No. DA3318284.

 

Nadasen, Premilla, Jennifer Mittelstadt, and Marisa Chappell, Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents, 1935–1996. (New York: Routledge, 2009. x, 241 pp. Cloth, $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-98978-7. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-415-98979-4.)

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