Recent Scholarship
Social Welfare and Public Health
Bloom, Alan, “Not in My Backyard: Resistance to Charitable Institutions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Chicago,” Journal of Illinois History, 10 (Autumn 2007), 213–34.
Enos, Sandra L., “The Emergence of Child Welfare at the State Home and School, Rhode Island’s Public Orphanage,” Rhode Island History, 65 (Fall 2007), 63–87. Heavily illustrated.
Hochschild, Jennifer, and Traci Burch, “Contingent Public Policies and Racial Hierarchy: Lessons from Immigration and Census Policies,” in Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen, ed. Ian Shapiro and Sonu Bedi, 138–70. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. viii, 296 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8147-4044-6.)
Loiacono, Gabriel J., “Economy and Isolation in Rhode Island Poorhouses, 1820–1850,” Rhode Island History, 65 (Summer 2007), 31–47. Heavily illustrated.
Nelson, Dave, “Camp Roosevelt: A Case Study of the nya in Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Fall 2007), 162–85.
Payne, Adam A., “‘We Complacently Drink the Fruit of the Lotus Bowl’: Deciding on the Oklahoma City Floodway, 1946–1953,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 85 (Fall 2007), 308–23.
Pettegrew, Justin H., “Rescuing Young Men from the ‘Ruin of the City’: Religion, Masculinity, and the Founding of the Chicago ymca, 1853–1858,” Journal of Illinois History, 10 (Autumn 2007), 191–213.
Schiller, Reuel E., “The Era of Deference: Courts, Expertise, and the Emergence of New Deal Administrative Law,” Michigan Law Review, 106 (Dec. 2007), 399–441.
Schrad, Mark Lawrence, “The First Social Policy: Alcohol Control and Modernity in Policy Studies,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no. 4, 2007), 428–51.
Sloane, David C., “A (Better) Home Away from Home: The Emergence of Children’s Hospitals in an Age of Women’s Reform,” in Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children, ed. Marta Gutman and Ning de Coninck-Smith, 42–60. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xviii, 346 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4195-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4196-9.)
Carcieri, Paul T., “A History of Temperance and Prohibition in Rhode Island, 1820–1916” (Providence College, 2007). Order No. DA3262589.
Friedberg, Edna Sarah, “Abandon Us Not in Our Old Age: The Origins of American Jewish Residential Services for the Elderly” (Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2007). Order No. DA3257358.
Posey, Trisha Diane Carter, “Poverty Encounters: Unitarians, the Poor, and Poor Relief in Antebellum Boston and Philadelphia” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3260343.
Sample, Bradford Wilson, “‘Firmly and Conscientiously Attached to the Cause of Temperance’: The Anti-Alcohol Movement in Indianapolis, 1825–1856” (Purdue University, 2006). Order No. DA3260013.
Seim, David Lee, “‘Perhaps We Can Hit upon Some Medium of Course’: Rockefeller Philanthropy, Economic Research, and the Structure of Social Science, 1911–1946” (Iowa State University, 2007). Order No. DA3259444.
Webb, Daryl, “‘A great promise and a great threat’: Milwaukee Children in the Great Depression” (Marquette University, 2006). Order No. DA3256641.
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