The Mayor of Shantytown
The Mayor of Shantytown

Author: Richard Gazarik

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-02-20

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 147667339X

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Father James R. Cox became the voice of Pittsburgh's poor and jobless during the worst years of the Great Depression. Long lines of needy people were showing up daily at St. Patrick's Church in the city's historic Strip District but Cox turned no one away. He served more than two million meals to the hungry and was the "mayor" of a shantytown of homeless men. In 1932, Cox led one of the first mass marches on Washington, D.C., confronting President Herbert Hoover in a face-to-face White House meeting. He later ran for president himself on the Jobless Party ticket--a quixotic campaign that ended in the deserts of New Mexico. Father Cox's reputation as a humanitarian was ruined after he barely escaped a mail fraud conviction for running a rigged fundraising contest.

Through the Mayors' Eyes
Through the Mayors' Eyes

Author: Michael F. Rizzo

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1411637577

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A biographical history of the mayors who held office throughout the history of Buffalo, New York, arranged chronologically by years in office.

Ottawa
Ottawa

Author: Jeff Keshen

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2001-05-02

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 2760315703

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Ottawa - Making a Capital is a collection of 24 never-before published essays in English and in French on the history of Ottawa. It brings together leading historians, archeologists and archivists whose work reveals the rich tapestry of the city. Pre-contact society, French Canadian voyageurs, the early civil service, the first labour organizers and Jewish peddlers are among the many fascinating topics covered. Readers will also learn about the origins of local street names, the Great Fire of 1900, Ottawa's multicultural past, the demise of its streetcar system, Ottawa's transformation during the Second World War and the significance of federal government architecture. This book is an indispensable collection for those interested in local history and the history of Canada's capital.

A Refuge of Cure or Care
A Refuge of Cure or Care

Author: Madeline Kearin Ryan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1793643822

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In A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane, Madeline Kearin Ryan analyzes the therapy model of the nineteenth-century asylum. Because the five senses were believed to provide a direct conduit into a person’s mental condition, the curative force of the hospital was thought to reside in its command over sensory experience. Ryan examines how the institution was designed to target each of the five senses as a mode of therapy, and conversely, how that well-intentioned design materialized in the haphazard realm of institutional practice. In doing so, Ryan seeks to reconcile the disjuncture between the benevolent promise of the asylum model and its ultimate failure in a way that captures the complex power dynamics and heterogeneity of actors within the institution.