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by Elizabeth Nelson and Emily Beckman Widely remembered as sites of abuse, isolation, and neglect, many state-run psychiatric hospitals and homes for the disabled were shuttered across the United States in the late 20th century. Indiana’s Central State Hospital (1848-1994) came to a particularly tragic end, after a series of preventable patient deaths in the …

The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom Overview The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom examines the movements led by Father Divine, Charles Mason, and Albert Cleage (later known as Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman) as alternative Christian movements in the middle of the twentieth …

“Why ‘Dissident’ Irish Republicans Haven’t Gone Away: A Visual Study of the Persistence of ‘Terrorism” Abstract When considering “terrorists” and “terrorism”, the focus tends to be on violence — the threat of violence, the aftermath of violence, the ideology and belief systems that lead to violence, and so forth.  Political violence, however, represents only a …

The new journal Reviews in Digital Humanities, a pilot project that focuses on peer review of digital humanities scholarship, celebrated its one year anniversary in January 2021. Co-founded and co-edited by Dr. Jennifer Guiliano Associate Professor in the Department of History at IU Indianapolis and Roopika Risam, Associate Professor of Secondary and Higher Education and …

‘You can’t repeal regret’: targeting men for mobilisation in Ireland’s abortion debate by Kate Hunt and Amanda Friesen Abstract This study explores how social movement organisations involved in the abortion debate in the Republic of Ireland attempted to appeal to men in their campaign messages before the 2018 referendum on the Eighth Amendment concerning abortion. …