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The article discusses U.S. unemployment policy during the Interwar Period of the early 1920s, including the role that the U.S. government played in offering services to the unemployed and the paternalist aspects of the policy. The role that U.S. Secretary of Commerce and future President Herbert Hoover played in developing U.S. welfare policy for the unemployed is discussed. The former U.S. colonel Arthur Woods' involvement in the 1921 President’s Conference on Unemployment is also discussed.

The article discusses the relation of the Supplementary Security Income (SSI) welfare program in the U.S. to HIV infection in the U.S. during the administration of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Topics include the treatment of people with AIDS (PWA) in relation to Medicaid and healthcare access, the social impact of the definition of AIDS by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the definition of disability by the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA). Social conditions of poor people, LGBT people, and minorities are noted.

The article discusses American newspaper advertisements within woman's pages developed for women consumers from 1895 through 1935. An overview of the U.S. newspaper publishers' efforts to gain access to women's private spaces in American homes, including their efforts to gain access to the American family, is provided.

The article considers the 1950s history of the right-wing popular front which embraced anti-Semitic and/or conspiratorial elements of the right, by discussing the magazine "American Mercury" and its owner Russell Maguire. It reports businessman Maguire gained control of the magazine in 1952 which was at that point under the editorial leadership of William Bradford Huie became the editor. It provides background of Maquire's education, business experience, and character and an overview of conservatism during the period.

The article discusses welfare rights activism on behalf of African American women in New Orleans between 1959 and 1962, particularly concerning legislation known as the suitable home laws, which provided money from the U.S. Social Security Act's welfare provision Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), and active denial by the Louisiana Board of Social Welfare of ADC funding to African American women and children.

The article discusses a socioeconomic change in America in the 1970s in relation to the issue of nursing home abuse and a patient abuse-related scandal involving the John J. Kane Hospital in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The economic aspects of U.S. health care policy are addressed, along with deindustrialization, long-term care for older Americans, and America's New Deal government policies. Social rights and hospital wages in the U.S. are assessed.

Several announcements are provided including the journal's call for papers on the African American freedom movement during the 1950s and 1960s, the opening of the essay prize the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award to graduate students and the journal's request for people to submit book reviews.

The article details the legal problems encountered by African American foreign correspondent William Worthy when he traveled to Cuba from the United States and promptly returned using a birth certificate instead of a passport, in violation of the 1961 travel ban issued by the U.S. State Department and the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). As a reporter for the "Baltimore Afro-America" and an active member of the activist group Fair Play for Cuba Committee, it was reported the the U.S. government targeted Worthy for his public support of the administration of Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro.

The article looks at how African American Muslim minister Malik Shabazz or known as Malcolm X built an Islamic ethics of liberation in the U.S. inspired by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser's example since 1964. It builds on the article on professor Manning Marable's suggestion that Islam became the spiritual platform toward Shabazz's life. This ethics was consonant with the social gospel tradition of American Christianity and of then African American religion.

The article discusses the U.S. war on drugs in the context of the legal protections for suburban white middle class illegal drug users and addicts from the 1950s through the 1980s, including in regard to the U.S. President Ronald Reagan's illegal drug policy. An overview of the racial disparities in U.S. drug policy between African Americans and whites, including for marijuana and crack cocaine, is provided.

An essay is presented on American Jewish writer and intellectual Will Herberg's political conservatism. It examines his views on the Judeo-Christian foundations of American democracy and his relationship with conservative author and New Right figure William F. Buckley Jr. The author explores the influence of Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr on Herberg and Herberg's involvement in the anticommunist and antisecularist Foundation for Religious Action in the Social and Civil Order (FRASCO).

The article reviews the web site titled "Child Labor in America, 1908–1912: Photographs of Lewis W. Hine," located at http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html, and developed by the Internet publication the History Place.

An essay is presented which examines the relationship between political and religious thought in the U.S. during the New Deal era, or 1930s, and explores the origins of fundamentalist antiliberalism. Particular focus is given to how the foreign policies of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) influenced fundamentalist theology. It also analyzes topics including political conservatism, apocalyptic thought, and premillennialism.

This article examines the 1960 U.S. Presidential campaign when Democratic candidate John Kennedy emphasized African issues in order to win over African-Americans. Many historians credit Kennedy's narrow victory to his efforts with this demographic. However, the author contends it has been incorrectly attributed. He suggests Kennedy made Africa a priority during the campaign. Many African countries achieved independence that year and Kennedy wanted to show support for this type of nationalism and encourage them to be open and democratic.

This article examines the early career of former U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Goldwater wrote an influential book of conservative ideology in 1960 called "The Conscience of a Conservative." His legacy has changed over time and his emphasis on libertarianism is at odds with contemporary religious conservatism. Goldwater emphasized his distrust of organized labor to build a movement against the policies of the New Deal. Goldwater framed his message as one of individualism, where the solidarity preached by unions became un-American.

Presents information on best selling articles during the 1940s that focused on Catholicism, with reference to Paul Blanshard's book `American Freedom and Catholic Power.' Information on other journals which focused on this topic; Indepth look at Professor John Dewey's perceptions of Blanshard's journal; Discussion on Catholicism from 1928-1960.

The article discusses the role of U.S. racism and the U.S. civil rights movement in Canadian understanding of racism in Canada. Topics include discrimination against black and indigenous people in Canada, transnational cooperation between Black Canadians and African American activists, and the impact of racism on the international reputation of the U.S.

The article discusses the significance of the 1995 United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women to the U.S. feminist movement, particularly focusing on the state of that movement following the end of the Cold War and the expansion of capitalism and privatization.

An essay is presented that examines what are identified as the competing postindustrial frameworks of choice and working family for family income and the gender role of working mothers in the U.S. during the administration of U.S. president Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, particularly focusing on private sector and public welfare solutions to social and political questions.

The article examines the significance of political mobilization among ecumenical Protestants during World War II and the importance placed on human rights and civil rights, particularly the role of the organization the Federal Council of Churches (FCC) and the FCC's involvement in the establishment of the United Nations (UN) following the war. It also discusses the World Order Movement.

The article discusses the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) organization's prison organizing activities in twentieth century America, and it mentions the legal rights of prisoners in places such as Mississippi, a black freedom social movement, and the concept of black nationalism. Prisoners' radicalism and prison repression are addressed, along with the suppression of Islam, the SaMarion v. McGinnis prisoners' rights case, and Muslim religious practices and rituals in prisons.

The article discusses political activity by African American military personnel (G.I.s) during World War II as a martial freedom movement. Topics include opposition to segregation within the U.S. Armed Forces, protest strategies used by African American G.I.s, and support from the organization National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

The article discusses why the Chinese-white color line in the early 20th century U.S. cannot be an extension of Chinese exclusion or a variant of Jim Crow racial segregation laws. A particular focus is given to two Chinese men who were charged with statutory rape in 1904 for having intimate relationships with two young white sisters in rural California. The racial geography of the Progressive Era is explored, as well as systemic exclusion faced by Chinese migrants in the interior.

The article looks back at a time before the emergence of Latino as a broad ethnoracial category in the U.S. in the 20th century. The author highlights the migration of Puerto Ricans to Chicago, Illinois, after World War II. He examines archives and scholarship on racial formation in order to explore the role of migration and citizenship in the formation of races in the country.

The article discusses U.S. black nationalist philosophy during the late 1960s and 1970s, including in regard to the question of land tenure. The African American black power movement's concept of the rural agrarian society ideal in the U.S. Southern States, including the aspects of nostalgia in the agrarian ideal, is discussed.

An essay is provided which discusses the U.S. Air Force's Ground Observer Corps (GOC), U.S. civil defense and American militarization during the Cold War of the late 1940s and 1950s, including the GOC's role in monitoring airplanes in the U.S. under the Air Force's Operation Skywatch. An overview of the efforts to recruit volunteers for the GOC program is provided.

Cities were fundamental to the rise of the black power movement in the late 1960s, but, as Brian D. Goldstein uncovers, the built environment also served as a crucial medium through which black power proponents imagined the future that would follow from racial self-determination. As the case of Harlem shows, activist architects and planners and their community partners crafted an urban vision that valued existing African American residents and preserved their vibrant neighborhoods. In doing so, they not only offered a rebuke to modernist city building, with its emphasis on clearance and redevelopment, but they also played a thus-far-overlooked role in crafting a new, postmodern urbanism in its place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the American political activist group Veterans of Future Wars, established in 1936 by a group of Princeton University college students led by Lewis Jefferson Gorin Jr. The group used satire in their manifesto published in the periodical "Daily Princetonian" to promote the payment of a bonus to men eligible for the draft, who would eventually be called for future military service in Europe and should be allowed to enjoy veteran benefits before their military service rendered them disabled or dead. The student activists gained in popularity across the U.S. and became a leading antiwar organization for a few brief months before disintegrating.

The article discusses the regulation of noncitizen access to welfare and Medicaid health insurance in U.S. history in relation to the origins of immigrant status restrictions in American social policy. The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the 1971 state alienage-based restrictions and constitutional law case Graham v. Richardson is examined, along with the legal aspects of public assistance programs in America. Unauthorized (illegal) immigration in the U.S. is assessed, along with state laws.

The article discusses the history of American Jews and name changing in New York City during the World War II era from 1939 to 1945. It builds on various scholarly interpretations emphasizing the insidious nature of anti-Semitism, which may have encouraged the resistance less grounded in civil rights protests than in personal identity and bureaucracy, and the complicated responses of Jews.

The article discusses the relationship between the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's social policy known as Great Society and mass incarceration in the U.S. (referred to as the carceral state) from the 1960s through the early 1970s. An overview of Johnson's crime policy, including in regard to the relations between urban African Americans and police, the impact of riots on Johnson's crime policy and the president's anti-poverty efforts known as the War on Poverty, is provided.

An essay is presented which discusses the U.S. Southern States prisoners' civil rights movement from the 1960s through the 1990s, commenting on the historiography of mass incarceration in the U.S. (referred to as the carceral state) and the legal struggles of prisoners. An overview of prisoners' lawsuits over their prison conditions, including the Texas prisoner class-action civil rights lawsuit "Ruíz v. Estelle," is provided.

The article discusses the police's policies towards gay and queer people and sexuality in the U.S. during the late 20th century, including police harassment of gays and disparity of the state's treatment of African American LBGT people. An overview of the gay rights movement's efforts to end police harassment of LGBT people is provided. U.S. laws criminalizing LGBT people, including local laws criminalizing cross-dressing, are discussed.

An essay is presented which discusses the history of the U.S. Office of Public Safety (OFS) from 1962 through 1974, with a particular focus on the role that the OFS played in assisting police and law enforcement throughout the world in training and counterinsurgency. The impact that OFS had in civilian-military relations is discussed.

An essay is presented which discusses the politics associated with the U.S. welfare state, mass incarceration in the U.S. (referred to as the carceral state) and social exclusion in the country from the 1960s through the 1990s. An overview of the New York state Governor Nelson Rockefeller's policies on illegal drugs, including their influence on mandatory minimum sentences in the U.S., is provided.

An essay is presented which discusses the youth of color at the Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility (originally known as the Whittier State School) in Whittier, California in the 1910s and 1920s, including in regard to African American, Mexican and Mexican American youth at the facility and mass incarceration (referred to as the carceral state) in California. Efforts towards researching the causes of juvenile delinquency, including the fieldwork research, the measuring of intelligence of juvenile delinquents and the influence of eugenics on the research, are discussed.

The article discusses the politicization of the reform of U.S. mathematics curriculum during the mid-20th century, particularly focusing upon the U.S. organization the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored curriculum popularly known as new math. The author discusses the significance of school curriculum in studying political transformation, particularly during the Cold War, the establishment, implementation, and reaction to new math as a political intervention, and the role of the organization the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) director Edward G. Begle.

An essay is presented on the John Hersey novel "A Bell for Adano" in relation to how the U.S. public came to perceive U.S. participation in the post-World War II military occupation of Germany and Japan. It outline's the novel, including protagonist U.S. Major Victor Joppolo's positive actions as an official of the U.S. military occupation of Sicily, Italy, during the war. Topics include U.S. popular reaction to the novel and U.S. military planning and training for the task of occupation.

The essay discusses the history of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the first corporation created under the Community Development Corporation (CDC) initiative established by Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The CDC was founded to help ameliorate the impact of black radicalism and the black power movement. Topics include community activism by urban African Americans, urban renewal, and liberalism and reform.

The article presents a speech by historian Albert M. Camarillo, delivered at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians held in San Francisco, California on April 13, 2013, in which he discussed the twentieth-century history of how minorities such as African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans dealt with residential segregation in urban areas of the Southwest.

An essay is presented on a public history project conducted by students in the Senior Seminar in American History at Michigan State University (MSU) on busing and desegregation in Lansing, Michigan schools. It notes collaboration with the Capital Area District Library (CADL) in Lansing, as well as collaboration between the instructor and students. The author considers the project as an engagement with local history and explores students' experiences writing blogs and handling primary sources.

This article presents reflections on the political ideals of capitalism, democracy and liberalism in the United States throughout the 20th century. Connections are made between common 20th-century views portraying the capitalism and democracy as being related and complimentary. Discussion is then offered charting the growth of these social values throughout the century alongside the liberal movement, contrasting them with the growing social-political controversy of economic inequality in the 21st century. Illustrations of these various ideals are highlighted through the life of the mid-century American author and liberal activist Lillian Hellman.

The article discusses the history of the working class of Detroit, Michigan between 1919 and 1945 considering competing interests forwarded by the United Automobile Workers of America (UAW) labor union and the various religious influences of the Catholic Church, African American Protestantism, and Southern evangelicals. Notable people considered include Southern Baptist preacher J. Frank Norris, UAW director Zygmund Dobrzynski, clergyman Gerald L. K. Smith, and African American social movement leader Reverend Charles Hill. Other topics considered include the Great Depression, the movement of Southern labor to Northern industrial centers, and impact of World War II on working class religious attitudes.

The article focuses on the Jewish congregation and leadership of Temple Beth El in Detroit, Michigan, moved to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1973, during the post-World War II era to explore notions of American urban white flight, urban activism, and the growth of suburbs. It explores the liberal commitment of Jews to civil rights, particularly efforts of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement. Some of the topics considered include the Detroit Riots of 1967, the Cold War, group identity, Jewish political participation, and American Jewish social networks and social activism.

The article discusses the politics of race practiced by the American motion picture industry after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 during the 1960s and 1970s. Notable people discussed include president of the Motion Picture Association of America Jack Valenti, consecutive chairmans of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Clifford Alexander and William Brown, Republican Senate minority leader Everett Dirksen, and director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Roy Wilkins. Topics include affirmative action, race and labor unions, and conservatism in U.S. politics.

The article discusses the intersection of the development of the petroleum industry and Protestant Evangelicalism in the U.S. southwest in the 20th century. According to the article, several communities in the region, such as Beaumont, Texas, nurtured spiritual enthusiasm and faith at the prospects of oil beginning roughly in 1901. The author examines the perception that the existence of oil, also referred to as black gold, in the region was seen as a special gift from God meant to advance the kingdom of God. The article also discusses the history of religion and oil in the U.S. beginning in the 19th century, including the views of the late U.S. oil magnate John D. Rockefeller.

The article discusses the history of oil drilling in Los Angeles, California, in the 20th century. It details the city's involvement with oil drillers and the tension between the petroleum industry and city government. The author examines public opinion concerning the law of capture and drilling in Venice, California, prior to World War II. She also discusses how oil companies developed technology in an attempt to quell public opposition to environmental and economic hazards associated with drilling following World War II. Also addressed is the response of the petroleum industry to governmental regulation concerning the environment.

An essay is presented on 20th century Texas oil magnate Everette DeGolyer. It argues that DeGolyer was the true-to-life embodiment of the fictional Texas oilman J.E. Ewing portrayed in the U.S. television series "Dallas" in the late 20th century. It compares and contrasts DeGolyer with the character, explores the cultural popularity of oilmen, and the transformation of the U.S. oil industry and its relationship with politics and power during the 20th century.