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Social Welfare and Public Health

“‘Save Our Kids, Keep aids Out’: Anti-aids Activism and the Legacy of Community Control in Queens, New York,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Summer 2006), 965–87.

Chun, Lu, “Meiguo laonian baojian jihua yu gaige” (The Medicare program and its reform), American Studies Quarterly (Beijing) (no. 1, 2003), 81–94. In Chinese.

Fairchild, Amy L., “Leprosy, Domesticity, and Patient Protest: The Social Context of a Patients’ Rights Movement in Mid-Century America,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Summer 2006), 1011–43.

Green, Elna C., “Protecting Confederate Soldiers and Mothers: Pensions, Gender, and the Welfare State in the U.S. South, a Case Study from Florida,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Summer 2006), 1079–1104.

Guinn, Lisa G., “‘Building Useful Women’ from the Depths of Poverty: The Founding and Establishment of the Girls’ Industrial Home and School in St. Louis, 1853–1916,” Missouri Historical Review, 100 (April 2006), 125–40.

Motl, Kevin C., “Under the Influence: The Texas Business Men’s Association and the Campaign against Reform, 1906–1915,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (April 2006), 495–529.

Savage, Cynthia, “Building the Grady County Courthouse: The Public Works Administration amidst Local Politics,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Spring 2006), 4–21.

Zolotykh, V. R., “Reforma amerikanskoi sistemy sotsial’nogo vspomoshchestvovaniia v 1996–2002 godakh: novye prioritety” (Reforming the American welfare system, 1996–2002: New priorities), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2004), 200–232. In Russian.

 

Friedman, Sora H., “No Place Like Home: The Founding and Transformation of the New Deal Town of Jersey Homesteads, New Jersey” (George Mason University, 2006). Order No. DA3188684.

Kinder, Leon Chad, “The Civilian Conservation Corps as Means of Social Control: A Southwestern Oklahoma Perspective” (Oklahoma State University, 2003). Order No. DA3189227.

 

Erkulwater, Jennifer L., Disability Rights and the American Social Safety Net. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiv, 252 pp. $42.50, isbn 978-0-8014-4417-3.)

Gamber, Wendy, Michael Grossberg, and Hendrik Hartog, eds., American Public Life and the Historical Imagination. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xii, 308 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-268-02017-5. Paper, $20.00, isbn 0-268-02018-3.)

Lawson, Alan, A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xviii, 280 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-8018-8406-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8018-8407-1.)

Moore, Robert J., The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona’s Rim Country: Working in the Woods. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xviii, 156 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87417-677-3.)

Speakman, Joseph M., At Work in Penn’s Woods: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xvi, 237 pp. $37.50, isbn 0-271-02876-9.)

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