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Social Welfare and Public Health

 

Atto, William J., “Brooks Hays and the New Deal,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 168–86.

Gilbert, Jess, “Rural Sociology and Democratic Planning in the Third New Deal,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 421–38.

Gilbert, Jess, “Rural Sociology and Democratic Planning in the Third New Deal,” Agricultural History, 82 (Fall 2008), 421–38.

Osborne, Elizabeth, “A Nation in Need: Revelations and Disaster Relief in the Federal Theatre Project,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Spring 2008), 49–64.

Rao, Gautham, “Sailors’ Health and National Wealth: Marine Hospitals in the Early Republic,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Turley, Kylie Nielson, “Yesharah: Society for lds Sister Missionaries,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Winter 2008), 168–203.

 

Walloch, Karen L., “‘A Hot-Bed of Anti-Vaccine Heresy’: Opposition to Compulsory Vaccination in Boston and Cambridge, 1890–1905” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007). Order No. DA3294105.

 

Lawson, Russell M., and Benjamin A. Lawson, Poverty in America: An Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xxvi, 233 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-313-33398-9.)

 

Jackson, William J., ed., The Wisdom of Generosity: A Reader in American Philanthropy. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 427 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-60258-059-6.)

Johnson, Suzanne Stone, and Robert Allison Johnson, eds., Bitter Freedom: William Stone’s Record of Service in the Freedmen’s Bureau. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xxxii, 117 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-766-5.)

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