This special issue of the Journal of Social Issues focuses on different
ways that social history and psychology--always co-constructing each
other--matter. Focused on major events and social movements of the
twentieth century, we highlight work that psychologists have done that
allow us, as a field, to take seriously the relationships between
social-level events and individuals' identities and
self-representations, emotional lives and well-being, approaches to
social justice and collective action, motivations and accomplishments.
The individual and collective pursuit of social justice makes links
between history and psychology visible along with their implications for
relations within and between social groups.