Recent Scholarship
Social Welfare and Public Health
Augst, Thomas, “A Drunkard’s Story: The Market for Suffering in Antebellum America,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/augst/.
Best, William D., “The Rise of African American Community Centers: A Brief History of 1490 Enterprises, Inc., Buffalo, New York,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 34 (Jan. 2010), 98–117.
Biehlera, Dawn Day, “Flies, Manure, and Window Screens: Medical Entomology and Environmental Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Cities,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 36 (Jan. 2010), 68–78.
Byrd, Michael D., “The First Charles Town Workhouse, 1738–1775: A Deterrent to White Pauperism?,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 110 (Jan.–April 2009), 35–52.
Corey, Joseph C., and Jason E. Taylor, “‘Oversell and Underperform’: The Impact of Great Society Economic Programs upon the City of Detroit, 1964–1968,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 28 (2010), 73–90.
Dorrance, Thomas F., “Remaking an Older Deal: Chicago Employment Politics: 1932–1936,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 7 (Spring 2010), 67–91.
Hoff, Derek S., “‘Kick That Population Commission in the Ass’: The Nixon Administration, the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, and the Defusing of the Population Bomb,” Journal of Policy History, 22 (no. 1, 2010), 23–63.
Marisam, Jason, “Local Governance and Pandemics: Lessons from the 1918 Flu,” University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, 85 (Spring 2008), 347–83.
Marsh, Bill, “Visual Education in the United States and the ‘Fly Pest’ Campaign of 1910,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 30 (March 2010), 21–36.
Miller, Mark J., “‘Mouth for God’: Temperate Labor, Race, and Methodist Reform in William Apess’s A Son of the Forest,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Summer 2010), 225–51.
Muller, Eric L., “Americanism behind Barbed Wire,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 31 (2009), 13–31.
Netting, F. Ellen, Mary Katherine O’Connor, and David P. Fauri, “A Missing Tradition: Women Managing Charitable Organizations in Richmond, Virginia, 1805–1900,” Social Service Review, 83 (Dec. 2009), 557–84.
Neumann, Todd C., Price V. Fishback, and Shawn Kantor, “The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market during the New Deal,” Journal of Economic History, 70 (March 2010), 195–220.
Olson, Marilyn L., “‘Halt, Blind, Lame, Sick, and Lazy’: Care of the Poor in Cedar County, Iowa, 1857–1890,” Annals of Iowa, 69 (Spring 2010), 131–72.
Pendleton, Stephen, “Ernest Wende and Buffalo’s Transition to Modern Public Health Policy, 1892–1910,” New York History, 90 (Fall 2009), 287–311.
Prude, Jonathan, “Images of Want: How Poverty Was, and Was Not, Pictured before the Civil War,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/prude/. Heavily illiustrated.
Simonsen, Jane, “‘This Large Household’: Architecture and Civic Identity at the Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Mount Pleasant,” Annals of Iowa, 69 (Spring 2010), 173–206.
Zeidel, Robert, “Pursuit of ‘Human Brotherhood’: Rockefeller Philanthropy and American Immigration, 1900–1933,” New York History, 90 (Winter–Spring 2009), 85–106.
Lamunière, Michelle, “Sentiment and Science: Francis Greenwood Peabody and Social Reform Photography in Harvard’s Social Museum” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3357664.
Milnarik, Elizabeth Ann, “The Federally Funded American Dream: Public Housing As an Engine for Social Improvement, 1933–1937” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3364897.
Porter, Stephen Ross, “Defining Public Responsibility in a Global Age: Refugees, ngos, and the American State” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3362289.
Tyrrell, Marygrace, “Colonizing Citizens: Housing Puerto Ricans, 1917–1952” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3355744.
Thomas, Jerry Bruce, An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2010. xii, 316 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-933202-51-8.) Originally published in 1998.
Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury, eds., The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness, 1881–88. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. lii, 754 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03349-0.)
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