Anna Kirkland has been studying law, health, and discrimination for twenty-five years. She is a professor of Women’s and ...

“Do high school students in the United States learn about the Armenian Genocide?” This is a surprisingly difficult question to answer. K-12 education in the United States is highly decentralized and ...

Flashback Friday. Reader Lindsey H. sent me a copy of a book called Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, apparently published in 1902 and revised in 1907 by Emily H. Vaught. Also available on Amazon.

Corey Moss-Pech is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University. His research focuses on the relationship ...

Protesters in Little Rock, Arkansas, (1959) declared that “race mixing” (or school integration) was “communism”: A reader at Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish argues that accusations of communism then, ...

Cheeseburger Culture offers a fascinating look into how this beloved fast food item has become a symbol of culinary trends and cultural identity. The concept frequently appears in top search results ...

In recent decades, populist radical right-wing (PRR) political parties have seen increasing success in Europe. These parties generally oppose globalization and favor restrictions on immigration.

Huh, I hadn't put that together before, but leprechauns are usually drawn just like that. I know that occassionally in minstrel shows there were Irish acts, which were performed in the same black face ...

I agree with the reasoning behind the first explanation of the correlation, but not the second. I'm an SAT teacher, and one of the first things we have to get our kids to understand is that the SAT is ...

The power of social media to burrow dramatically into our everyday lives as well as the near ubiquity of new technologies such as mobile phones has forced us all to conceptualize the digital and the ...

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota ...

The Demographics During disasters, poor people, people of color, and the elderly die in disproportionate numbers (source), and Katrina was no exception. Many decisions were made in the days leading up ...