A Miscellany:
History, Philosophy &
Public Policy

larrydewitt.net

This site makes available a selection of the works of historian and scholar of public policy, Larry DeWitt

This is an Internet portal containing five distinct websites:

A documentary history of social insurance programs in the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras that were precedents for similar programs in the New Deal. . .

A Masters Thesis on an unknown government program associated with the World War II internments . . .

A collection of columns on contemporary social/political issues . . .

A collection of essays on general scholarly topics . . .


An e-book literary collection of essays, poems and philosophical reflections.

 

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This website is a reference source for students and scholars studing the connections between the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the New Deal

The New Deal was in many ways an unprecedented exercise in federal power, dramatically expanding the role of the federal government in the provision of economic security. However, the various programs of the New Deal era may not have been entirely without precedent.

This website addresses the question: "Were there significant antecedents in the GAPE for the development of the social insurance programs of the New Deal?" The site contains a brief introduction to each of eight key social insurance-related areas, representative source documents in each of the areas, and a comprehensive narrative essay tying all eight areas together and showing their relationship to the programs of the New Deal.

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This website publishes a Masters Thesis providing an in-depth study of a little-known social welfare program operated by the federal government as part of its World War II program of forced relocations and internments of residents whose ancestry lay in the nations of the Axis powers.

The U.S. Social Security Board and its Program of Assistance and Services to Enemy Aliens and Others During the Relocations and Internments of World War II

by Larry DeWitt
M.A. Thesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, November 2004

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This website republishes a series of columns on contemporary political and social issues


Since 2003 Larry DeWitt has been an occasional columnist on the Coloquio.com website. In addition to cultural events, Coloquio is heavy on politics and contemporary public issues. In this regard Larry was invited by the publisher to become a regular columnist to comment on current public policy issues, largely from the perspective of an historian. Reproduced here, are the columns from Coloquio.

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This website publishes a collection of essays on general scholarly topics

Over the years I have written a small cache of unpublished essays on topics in history, historiography, and general academic topics. Some of them are now being made available here..

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This website publishes for the first time the previously unpublished book: Scribbling Foxes, by our resident scholar

This book is a collection of occasional literary output of philosophical, lyrical, and even frivolous, topics, written over the course of the last twenty years or so.

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