The Roman sewer, the Cloaca Maxima, was presided over by a goddess whose shrine stood near the Forum.

“[N]o man can justly doubt, that a childs mind is answerable to his nurses milk and manners.”

Marcus Garvey left Jamaica unemployed, an anti-colonial trade unionist who British authorities considered dangerous.

The disgust response acts as a behavioral immune system, protecting us from disease, but produces strong reactions to perceived out-groups.

Scholarship about Israeli settlement in occupied Palestinian territories provides historical context for recent violence in the region.

You can’t spot a liar just by looking, but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.

The political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. on the Black Lives Matter movement, the “rich peoples’ wealth gap,” and his Marxism.

Vaccinologist C. Buddy Creech on getting vaccinated, racial disparities, and the lessons we’ve learned after a year of COVID-19.

Armada solamente con unos cuantos libros de texto y una lámpara de queroseno, Rosa Hernández Acosta alfabetizaba en la Cuba rural sin electricidad, agua corriente ni carreteras asfaltadas.

Author Shena McAuliffe describes how she used JSTOR to research her debut novel, The Good Echo.

While writing her forthcoming book about Polynesia, the author discovered the work of Teuira Henry, a scholar and folklorist who studied ancient Tahiti.

Debut novelist Jessie Chaffee on how she researched her critically-acclaimed new novel Florence in Ecstasy, with a little help from JSTOR.