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Their dalliances with elite men made the tabloids, and their biographies were printed in guidebooks.

The final journey for London’s dead, circa 1860, was a trip on the London Necropolis Railway.

Path to Open Books on JSTOR Hacking the Iron Curtain: A Media Archaeology of the Russian Internet is part of JSTOR’s Path to Open initiative, which helps nonprofit university presses meet the challenges of open access publishing.

Psychiatric facilities and their patients have long been fodder for horror stories.

Oil is the foundation of American life, with the consumption of gasoline written into the very landscape of the nation itself.

Why attention matters In my high school Narrative Medicine course, many students are interested in careers in medicine, while others plan to enter fields such as coaching, physical or occupational therapy, teaching, or other professions centered on human…

Visitors encountering the Thousand Bloom Chrysanthemum at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania often wonder what they are seeing.

Get into the Halloween spirit with our best stories on the holiday, which include a look into the Salem witch trials and the obsession with Satanism in nineteenth-century France.

The race was on.

The night that inspired Gothic literature In 1815, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia released a massive cloud of ash and particulates, large enough to affect global weather.

A labor-saving device to lighten the domestic workload … wouldn’t that be taken up in a second?

If you were asked to picture Balinese dancers, the Luh Luwih troupe might not be what comes to mind.

Each time we read a poem, we dream.

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952) is considered one of the great women photographers in American history.

In the 2010s, after Black communities and supporters came together to protest the police killings of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and many others, some reformers and politicians suggested that a remedy was more and better police training.

“What is thought to be one of the earliest recorded wolf attacks” in North America, as described on Wikipedia, occurred on January 19, 1621.

Finding useful sources is only part of the research process—you also need to keep track of them.

The following stories, published over the last several years, honor specific Indigenous cultural practices and histories, dispel myths about Indigenous people in North and South America, and help us understand the systemic racism that has contributed to t…

The Matter of Britain has had an enduring influence on popular media, from films and documentaries to commercials and music videos.

As the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage to the Americas approached, a newspaper opined that, rather than being a hero, the navigator was “a pirate and adventurer,” the figure who inaugurated the era of “colonial politics” and was guilty of…

Pad Thai is among the most popular offerings at Thai restaurants all over the world, thanks to its distinctive yet approachable sweet-sour-savory flavor profile.

“The world is mud-luscious” wrote e.e. cummings, and that wasn’t even the half of it.

Sporting a winged tiara and star-spangled bustier and gifted with superhuman strength and flight, Darna could be called the Filipino version of Wonder Woman.

October is LGBTQ+ History Month, observed in the United States since 1994.

In 2019, 550 students evacuated the University of Canberra’s library because of one fruit: durian.

How did people see the world before older systems were displaced by colonialism?

Talk-talk, said Winston Churchill (reputedly), is always better than war-war.

In 1953, audio engineer Emory Cook released a unique album titled Out of this World.

I teach first-year academic writing courses in the University of Georgia English Department.

The Germans began firing on Paris again on the fifth of August 1918.

The right-wing movements that emerged around the world in the mid-twentieth century were both highly nationalistic and willing to work across borders.

We live in an age of hardened borders and militarized frontiers.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, before the rise of public libraries, many people in remote parts of the United States got their hands on new books thanks to traveling salespeople.

Just like “love” in Raymond Carver’s iconic short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” “minimalism” is a contested term.

In 1829, hundreds of spinners and weavers had gathered at the Norfolk Arms Hotel when the floor collapsed under them.

Sometimes called Cambodia’s Elvis Presley, singer Sinn Sisamouth was a household name in the 1960s and remains an icon of Cambodian pop music today.

A miner is typically envisioned as a brawny bro at the coal face or a crusty Forty-niner sourdough sluicing for gold.

With so much material available on JSTOR, finding the sources most relevant to a particular question can require more than a basic search.

Even though the tides are slowly turning, many video games have formulaic plots that reinforce old-school gender and heteronormative roles, often featuring a hero saving a damsel in distress from a menacing villain.

Much of the urban landscape across the United States today was shaped by rapid development after World War II.

The richest, most powerful people in a society don’t just materially control the lives of others.

How did the Nazi Volkswagen become the world-renowned symbol of postwar, post-fascist Germany?

The initial court ruling seemed like a victory for Chinese Americans in the Mississippi Delta: Chinese children could attend school with their white peers, said the judge.

In April, a new record was set for the Indian art market when a painting by renowned Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma, created in the late nineteenth century, became the most expensive Indian artwork ever sold at auction.

The University of Wyoming is home to an archive of undergarments.

For more than a century, Americans have commonly asked how public schools could do a better job of teaching people to be good citizens.