According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common?

Taylor tells the story of how Jefferson’s vision for educating the next generations of American came to be...

Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in their careers about their recent transitions from graduate school into the professorate...

Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...

How does the world of book reviews work?

"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed

In this episode we consider vital role of play, and what it does to expand a child’s creativity and resilience...

Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition...

Given that the majority of the athletes in the major sports (read that to be football and men’s basketball) are African American, what type of recompense are they getting for their toil and sweat on the gridiron and the hardcourt?

Wakild and Berry offers strategies and approaches that educators can apply in a variety of settings: from high school classrooms to college courses, and from environmental history and environmental studies courses to US and world history surveys...

Fish discusses the popular and legal meanings of the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses...

Subramanian provides an insightful account of their emergence is post-independence India as a set of distinct and “world class” institutions underwritten by the Indian state...

There is a growing mismatch between the culture of many campuses, and the challenges young people will face in their careers, politics and personal live...

Sperber analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly—discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews...

Ruis narrates the development of school lunch programs from the late 19th century to the present,..

American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school..

"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Driskell traces the roots of black protest politics to early 20th century Atlanta and the fight for equal education...

We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean?

Kronman contends that this is a failure by faculty and administrators to provide students with the intellectual and moral challenges they need in order become a fully-formed human being...