Tagged Social Science
Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
The Author Events Series presents Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend REGISTER Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney…
Patterns of Knowledge Exhibit
"Patterns of Knowledge," now on view in the main lobby of Parkway Central Library, features the work of Philadelphia high school students apprenticing at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM). Each piece, screen-printed on…
Noliwe Rooks | Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children
The Author Events Series presents Noliwe Rooks | Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children REGISTER On May 17, 1954 the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was…
Fawn Weaver | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
The Author Events Series presents Fawn Weaver | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest REGISTER Embark on a captivating…
Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call
The Author Events Series presents Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call REGISTER We all feel it--the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their…
Sophia Rosenfeld | The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
The Author Events Series presents Sophia Rosenfeld | The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life REGISTER In Conversation with Emily Wilson Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where…
James Baldwin Reading Group
"The People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin" is a citywide series of book clubs at several locations across Philadelphia. Facilitated by the Saturday Free School as part of their "Year of James Baldwin." Tuesdays…
W.E.B. DuBois & His Artistic Approach to Social Science
In the Social Science & History Department W.E.B. Du Bois viewed sociology as a human science. In his effort to understand and explain the human capacity to transform society he employed art in its many forms including music,…
Katherine Stewart | Money, Lies, and God
The Author Events Series presents Katherine Stewart | Money, Lies and God REGISTER In Conversation with Anthea Butler Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to…
James Baldwin Reading Group
"The People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin" is a citywide series of book clubs at several locations across Philadelphia. Facilitated by the Saturday Free School as part of their "Year of James Baldwin." Tuesdays…
Marlene Daut | The First and Last King of Haiti
The Author Events Series presents Marlene Daut | The First and Last King of Haiti REGISTER In Conversation with Grace Sanders Johnson Slave, revolutionary, traitor, king, and suicide, Henry Christophe was, in his time,…
Senator Ron Wyden | It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change
The Author Events Series presents Senator Ron Wyden | It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change REGISTER It Takes Chutzpah is an inspirational call to action by a senior U.S. politician, describing…
James Baldwin Reading Group
"The People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin" is a citywide series of book clubs at several locations across Philadelphia. Facilitated by the Saturday Free School as part of their "Year of James Baldwin." Tuesdays…
John Sayles | To Save the Man
The Author Events Series presents John Sayles | To Save the Man REGISTER In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run by…
Anthony Jack | Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price
The Author Events Series presents Anthony Jack | Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price REGISTER In Conversation with Desmond Upton Patton Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with…
James Baldwin Reading Group
"The People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin" is a citywide series of book clubs at several locations across Philadelphia. Facilitated by the Saturday Free School as part of their "Year of James Baldwin." Tuesdays…
Juan Williams | New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement
The Author Events Series presents Juan Williams | New Prize for These Eyes REGISTER In New Prize for These Eyes, award-winning author Juan Williams shines a light on this historic, new movement. Who are its heroes? Where is it headed?…
James Baldwin Reading Group
"The People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin" is a citywide series of book clubs at several locations across Philadelphia. Facilitated by the Saturday Free School as part of their "Year of James Baldwin." Tuesdays…
Uché Blackstock | Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
The Author Events Series presents Uché Blackstock | Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine REGISTER In Conversation with Joel Bervell The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in…
Abortion & Women's Rights 1970: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion
4th Floor Skyline Room The Social Science & History Department will screen Abortion & Women's Rights 1970 , the first documentary made in the U.S. about the struggle for abortion rights. Following the 28-minute film will be…
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an authoritative, comprehensive Web-based reference work about philosophy, useful to scholars of all levels as well as the general public. Published through Stanford University’s Center for the…
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Based on Greenhaven's "Opposing Viewpoints" series and supplemented with Infotrac materials.
Gale in Context | Middle School (formerly Research in Context) *
Discover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues. Research In Context offers…
Gale in Context | Elementary (formerly Kids InfoBits) *
Elementary students in kindergarten through grade five will find age-appropriate content covering a broad range of educational topics such as animals, arts, geography, health, literature, people, social studies, technology, etc. Kids…
Academic OneFile
More than 20,000 peer-reviewed journals and more than 9,200 in full text Full text of The Economist ranging from 1988 to the present, with no embargo Full text of The New York Times from 1985 to present, updated daily Full text of The…
Laurence Ralph | Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him
In conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In Sito , Laurence Ralph explores the murder of San Francisco teen Sito Quiñonez and his family’s long-reverberating grief and grace. Ralph, the stepfather of Sito’s half-brother, tells…
Marcus Anthony Hunter | Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition. Co-promoted by the American Constitution Society The Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences Division, Professor of Sociology & African American…
Emily Nagoski | Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
Emily Nagoski is the author of the New York Times bestseller Come as You Are , a self-help manual lauded by critics and readers for its ability to “offer up hard facts on the science of arousal and desire in a friendly and…
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young | Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
Co-sponsored by Committee of Seventy In conversation with Cherri Gregg, host/news anchor for WHYY radio Dannagal Goldthwaite Young is the author of Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United…
David Brooks | How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Acclaimed for his ability to “elevate the unseen aspects of private experience into a vigorous and challenging conversation about what we all share” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), David Brooks has written an op-ed column for The New York…
Nikhil Goyal | Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
In conversation with author and Pennsylvania State Senator, Nikil Saval In Live to See the Day , Nikhil Goyal offers a searing portrait of three Puerto Rican children struggling to survive in Philadelphia’s impoverished Kensington…
Angela Saini | The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Angela Saini is the author of Superior , an “easy-to-read blend of science reporting, cultural criticism, and personal reflection” ( Slate ) that explores the resurgence of the harmful and faulty study of race science. She is also the…
Heather McGhee | The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone
Sandra Shaber Memorial Lecture In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Matisak The Sum of Us , Heather McGhee’s 2021 odyssey across the American landscape of inequality, won wide acclaim for its empathetic…
Sigal R. Ben-Porath | Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy
A professor of education, philosophy, and political science at the University of Pennsylvania, Sigal R. Ben-Porath is the co-author of Making Up Our Mind: What School Choice Is Really About, and is the author of Free Speech on…
Camika Royal | Not Paved For Us: Black Educators and Public School Reform in Philadelphia
In conversation with Edwin Mayorga and Sharif El-Mekki For 20 years Camika Royal was a middle and high school teacher and a teaching coach for her fellow educators in Baltimore, Washington, DC, and her hometown of Philadelphia.…
Ruth Wilson Gilmore | Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
In conversation with Chenjerai Kumanyika Ruth Wilson Gilmore is largely credited with creating carceral geography, the study of how the interplay between space, institutions, and political economies shape modern incarceration. The…
Dorothy Roberts | Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Addressing social justice issues of policing, state surveillance of families, and science, Dorothy Roberts ’s books include Killing the Black Body , Shattered Bonds , and Fatal Invention . She has…
Erika M. Kitzmiller | The Roots of Educational Inequality: Philadelphia's Germantown High School, 1907–2014
Education historian Erika M. Kitzmiller has conducted research in the city of Philadelphia, its public schools, and the Free Library for nearly two decades. The result of her investigation is The Roots of Educational Inequality , a…
Mary Ann Sieghart | The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
Barbara Gohn Day Memorial Lecture In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award winning broadcaster and journalist In her 20 years as a columnist and assistant editor at The Times of London , Mary Ann Sieghart won a popular following for…
Robin DiAngelo | Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
In conversation with Resmaa Menakem, bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Robin DiAngelo ’s New York Times bestseller White Fragility , a “methodical,…
Marc Bookman | A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays
In conversation with Reggie Shuford, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania. The Executive Director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, Marc Bookman is an internationally renowned…
Judith Heumann | Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition A world-renowned leader in the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement, featured in the new film Crip Camp , Judith Heumann has spent four decades…
Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan | Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
In conversation with Dr. Jen Ashton, Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News and author of The Self-Care Solution: A Year of Becoming Happier, Healthier, and Fitter--One Month at a Time A professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia…
Emma Copley Eisenberg | The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
In conversation with Sarah Marshall, journalist, writer, and co-host of the podcast You’re Wrong About. In June 1980, two young middle-class women who had been hitchhiking to a nature festival called the Rainbow Gathering were found…
Malcolm Gladwell | Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
With “an uncanny ability to simplify without being simplistic” ( Seattle Times ), Malcolm Gladwell synthesizes academic research and critical analysis with engaging prose and relatable anecdotes to fashion surprisingly counterintuitive…