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High school yearbooks focus on the fun students had, obscuring the pain people also experienced

  • Written by Michael A Messner, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
High school yearbooks focus on the fun students had, obscuring the pain people also experiencedThe Salinas High School (Calif.) girls volleyball team from 1924, as seen in the school's yearbook, 'El Gabilan.'Michael A. Messner, CC BY

High school students will soon take part in a more than 160-year-old tradition in American education: receiving yearbooks at the end of the school year.

In an era of high-speed ephemeral images and social media,...

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