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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 the roles of judicial retirement and pensions, as well as judicial independence, in a 1937 dispute about court-packing of the U.S. Supreme Court. Topics include the role of retirement law in a plan by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the proposals of Progressive Era reformers for judicial retirement, and 1932 legislation cutting the salaries and pensions of judges. The role of U.S. Congressman Hatton Sumners in the controversy is addressed.

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.

The article explores the struggle in Puerto Rico between organized labor and U.S. and local employers over the minimum wage provisions of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). It recounts the effort of militant labor groups to defend the provisions and the move by New Dealers to prevent conservatives from abolishing the FLSA. Also discussed is an amendment facilitated by New Dealers and conservatives to allow lower minimum wages in colonial holdings.

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 discusses then-U.S. foreign policy strategist and diplomat George F. Kennan's emotions and his views about topics such as the Soviet Union, Russians, and a performance of the late playwright Anton Chekhov's drama "The Cherry Orchard" in 1958. Frustration and Kennan's inner personality are examined, along with his views about relations with the people, culture, and landscape of Russia during the twentieth century. Kennan's American foreign policy recommendations are assessed.

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 New York and Bermudez Company in Guanoco, Venezuela in the first decade of the twentieth century. The American company was the holder of a large lake of tar pitch, a main ingredient used in asphalt in the U.S. and the company relations with the Venezuelan government of president Cipriano Castro were strained over the control of the area. Efforts made by the administration of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, mainly secretary of state Elihu Root, to adopt a legal strategy to intercede in the matter without resorting to the use of military force, are detailed.

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.

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 the role of U.S. foreign aid in the Rapti Valley Development Project (RVDP) in Nepal. Topics include environmental engineering as part of the project, the use of DDT to attempt to exterminate malaria in the Rapti Valley, and the social impacts of the project on Tharu people in the valley. The involvement of U.S. planner Paul Rose in the project is addressed.

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 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 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 provides information for entering articles on topics of American history for both the David Thelen Award and Louis Pelzer Memorial Award, awarded for excellence in history writing. Corrections are made to articles appearing in the September 2013 issue which includes the front cover caption, "The Conscience of America" by James Loeffler, and the book review for "A Revolutionary Conscience."

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.

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 explores the intricacies of the 1913-1915 back-to-Africa movement of Chief Alfred Charles Sam, a shadowy figure in Oklahoma history, which inspired the African American migration to Africa. The author argues that this movement was a prelude to Garveyism and the great migration as well as a capstone to what historian Carter G. Woodson called an African American migration within and beyond North America using the story of freedpeople Elic Davis and his cousin Monroe Coleman.

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 presents an abridged collective biography of journalists Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson and novelist Ayn Rand and their opposition to libertarianism in the U.S. in the 20th century. It provides a historical analysis of their consequence for the American right, methods and scope of intellectual history, and women's history. It also examines the political ideas they advanced to demonstrate how they reworked a personal and gendered sense of individualism into a free economy theory.

The article discusses the Gold Star Mother Program initiated in 1930 by the U.S. government which undertook to send roughly 6700 mothers and wives of fallen World War I soldiers to Europe. The program would arrange for travel of both white and African American women, but the women would travel on separate ships and stay in different hotels. Civil rights activists with the the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) protested the program. However, 279 black mothers and wives did travel to Europe between 1930 and 1933 and reported the trip was nothing like the NAACP predicted.

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.

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.

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.

The article discusses the 1945 United Nations (UN) conference held in San Francisco, California. It focuses on the role of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in influencing American diplomats to include provisions covering human rights in the UN Charter. A speech given by Jewish lawyer Joseph Proskauer helped convince Secretary of State Secretary Edward Stettinius Jr. to include such provisions. Notable people discussed include AJC president Jacob Blaustein, director of the UN Human Rights Division John Humphrey, and James Shotwell of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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.

The article presents an exploration into the mid-20th century "culture-and-personality" school of social science, which advocated a social constructionist view of personal development against the prevailing biological perspective of the period. Details are given outlining how the school of thought addressed concepts of racial and sexual differences in society, highlighting their juxtaposition of cultural relativist and psychoanalytical perspectives of pluralistic behavior. Conclusions are offered noting to the impact of the intellectual movement as a replacement for eugenic thought and an advocate for social change through child rearing.

The article presents an exploration into the black power movement of the 1960s, its impact and significance on 20th century U.S. social history, and the state of scholastic interest on the subject in the early 21st century. Discussion is given reviewing the historiography of the African American civil rights movement and noting increasing attention to black power as a distinct and central element of the movement rather than as a fringe aspect of it. A review of works by several historians who have contributed to the study of the movement is also given, including Clayborne Carson, Timothy Tyson, and William L. Van Deburg.

The article examines the relocation of the Alexander Smith Carpet Company from Yonkers, New York to Greenville, Mississippi in the early 1950s as an example of how the states' rights movement in the U.S. South in the post-World War II era had economic as well as racial implications. White southerners advocated states' rights as a way to block federal interference with racial segregation policies, but article shows that northern industrialists also saw business opportunities in states less friendly to organized labor.

The article examines the influence of pioneering sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey on the thinking of U.S. religious leaders about sexual issues following publication of his most famous works, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" (1948) and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" (1953). Though Kinsey was reviled by Christian conservatives, the article discusses his correspondence with liberal Protestant leaders, who continued a more open discussion of sexuality in the wake of Kinsey's work. The effect on the "culture wars" of the late 20th century is discussed.

The article discusses efforts by U.S. public employees to unionize in the 1970s and its effect on the broader labor movement. The article describes how public employees in the 1970s were hoping to reproduce the successes of the private sector labor movement in the 1930s, which included the passage of legislation similar to the 1935 Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act). The article explains how the failure of public employees to successfully lobby for pro-labor legislation negatively affected the private sector labor movement in the U.S. and helps explain the rise of conservatism. Details are provided regarding the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the effects of the New Deal on conservatism.

The article discusses the 1906 Race Riot Tour guided by Georgia State University professor Clifford Kuhn in Atlanta, Georgia. The article discusses the tour's focus on the 1906 Georgia Democratic Party gubernatorial election primary between candidates Clark Howell and M. Hoke Smith, a memorial to activist Henry W. Grady, and the aftermath of the riot. According to the article, the tour is open to the public on the second Sunday of each month.