B efore Charlie Kirk and Christopher F. Rufo, there was William F. Buckley Jr., a conservative polemicist with a mellifluous ...

In the mid-1950s Jews were being depict­ed not as alien or disreputable immi­grants but rather as mem­bers of a respect­ed ...

In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for ...

The Lasting Impact of Franz Boas McGowan explores how Boas' research continues to shape modern discussions on race and cultural identity, emphasizing the critical role of scientists in political ...

Benedict deals with the Japanese along lines similar to, if not as clearly defined as, those in her earlier "Patterns of Culture". To quote Prof. Franz Boas, she "is concerned rather with the ...

PROF. FRANZ BOAS, who died on December 21 last, was born at Minden, Westphalia, in 1858, and did most of his scientific work in North America, becoming instructor in anthropology at Clark ...

Dr. Boas’ works were among the first to be burned by the Nazis, although before 1933 he had been showered with honors by German universities, in several of which he taught before coming to the ...

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