Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americ
The conjunction of the wane of the American civil rights movement and the rise of self-help psychotherapy is more than coincidental, suggests Lasch-Quinn (history, Syracuse U.). She details how psycho
Rieff's groundbreaking work, first published by Harper and Row in 1966, caught the scent of the cultural changes that came ripe in the next 40 years. In a series of essays that fully represent his con
Fox-Genovese (history and humanities, Emory U.) and Lasch-Quinn (history, Syracuse U.), founding members of the Historical Society an organization promoting "an integrated history accessible to the pu