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Social Welfare and Public Health

Enck-Wanzer, Darrel, “Trashing the System: Social Movement, Intersectional Rhetoric, and Collective Agency in the Young Lords Organization’s Garbage Offensive,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 92 (May 2006), 174–201.

Fischer, Marilyn, “Addams’s Internationalist Pacifism and the Rhetoric of Maternalism,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 18 (Fall 2006), 1–19.

Hughes, Richard L., “‘The Civil Rights Movement of the 1990s?’: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” Oral History Review, 33 (Summer–Fall 2006), 1–23.

Kasparek, Jonathan, “Void in Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Autumn 2006), 36–47.

Lee, R. Alton, “Drought and Depression on the Great Plains: The Kansas Transition from New Deal Work Relief to Old Age Pensions,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 39 (Spring–Summer 2006), 5–29.

Luey, Helen Sloss, “‘Yes, Certainly!’ The Life and Work of Hattie Hecht Sloss, San Francisco, California, 1874–1963,” Western States Jewish History, 39 (Fall 2006), 34–58.

Messer-Kruse, Timothy, “The Crusade for Honest Weight: The Origins of an Overlooked Progressive Movement,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 5 (July 2006), 241–86.

Patton, Thomas W., “‘What of Her?’: Eleanor Roosevelt and Camp Tera,” New York History, 87 (Spring 2006), 229–47.

Rodgers, Daniel T., “Worlds of Reform,” oah Magazine of History, 20 (Oct. 2006), 49–54.

 

Ghatak, Saran, “‘The study and amelioration of social evil’: Philanthropy, Social Technology, and the Genesis of the ‘Criminal Sciences’ in the United States, 1900–1940” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3195448.

Matsubara, Hiroyuki, “Unsettled Controversies: The Anti-Prostitution Movement and the Transformation of American Political Culture, 1910–1919” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005). Order No. DA3194066.

Richardson, Janine M., “Keiki O Ka ’Aina: Institutional Care for Hawai’i’s Dependent Children, 1865–1938” (University of Hawai‘i, 2005). Order No. DA3198375.

 

Kolvet, Renée Corona, and Victoria Ford, The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xxiv, 200 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87417-676-6.)

Tabak, John, Significant Gestures: A History of American Sign Language. (Westport: Praeger, 2006. x, 225 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-275-98974-7.)

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