Social Science
The Social History of Smoking
This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing o…
Among Cannibals
From 1880-1883, the author undertook an academic expedition to Australia, with the purpose of recording zoological phenomena. While there, h…
What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know
Wright, a pioneer in the education of the deaf, was a strong advocate for acoustic and auricular training. In this little book, he tries to …
Woman and the New Race
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…
History of the Incas
The author was commissioned in 1572 by the Viceroy of Peru to write this History of the Incas for King Philip II, as justification for the v…
Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England…
The Principles of Scientific Management
In The Principles of Scientific Management, Frederick Winslow Taylor argues that work can be organized more systematically to improve effici…
Rhysearch
Everyone has big questions, but very few people have the time to find the answers. Luckily, there’s one man with a completely empty diary. C…
MIT 11.945 Springfield Studio
The Springfield Studio is a practicum course that focuses on the economic, programmatic and social renewal of an urban community in Springfi…
Selected Articles
In the years following World War I, immigration was a hot topic in the United States. The number of immigrants arriving each year had surged…
Values
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we have started to reflect more on our working lives and increasingly question the relative value of different …
The Crisis
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…