Livia Gershon

Full employment was a prominent goal in U.S. politics after World War II, but has faded from policy debates in recent decades.

One of the first U.S. municipal laws demanding residential segregation, passed in 1910 in Baltimore, has roots in European colonial policies.

The marketing of scents through clever branding, rather than real differences in what’s being sold, originated in nineteenth-century France.

Historian Lawrence Glickman looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.

The graduation rate gap between black and white kids is a major issue. One organization emphasizes social identity, media literacy, and youth development in redressing the problem.

The way advertisers target mothers has changed along with the social understanding of American motherhood, one sociologist found.

Historian Robin Veder explains that the way we associate female nurturing with gardens goes back to the way ideas about gender and work changed in the mid-nineteenth century.

Researchers have found that Americans experience radically different health outcomes depending on their race and socioeconomic status.

Anthropologist Jennifer Musto looked at how the rise in concern about sex trafficking, particularly in regard to the domestic trafficking of underage girls, actually plays out in policing.

Frederick Hollick's case involved not only his controversial sex-positive arguments, but also the question of who should be privy to medical knowledge about sex.