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Engraved scene from the works of William Shakespeare; the death of Caesar in 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar', 1599.

The Lessons of Due Process in Julius Caesar

Shakespeare's tragedy offers a telling parable about the administration of justice—and rife mishandling thereof—in our day.

The Where We Were

Building De Stijl Style

Piet Mondrian, co-founder of De Stijl, argued that the art movement wasn’t ready for architecture. Theo van Doesburg and others believed it was. Who was right?

Reading Lists

Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Reading List

With scholarship on Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, resistance, and decolonization, this list honors Native sovereignty and self-determination.

Read Before You Go

The Long and Winding Island

New York’s Long Island has long served as a backdrop for social and political conflicts between the newly arrived and the established residents.

Chinese Ships, Danza Azteca, and Falling Asleep

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

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An illustration from the cover of Amrita Pritam's Pinjar

Arts & Culture

Caught in Partition’s Violent Fray

Published seventy-five year ago, Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar explores the devastation suffered by the women of India and Pakistan after political rupture.

In the Limelight

Tod Browning’s Freaks

Freaks asked audiences to think about the exploitative display of human difference while also demonstrating that the sideshow was a locus of community.

The Where We Were

Building De Stijl Style

Piet Mondrian, co-founder of De Stijl, argued that the art movement wasn’t ready for architecture. Theo van Doesburg and others believed it was. Who was right?

Reading Lists

Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Reading List

With scholarship on Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, resistance, and decolonization, this list honors Native sovereignty and self-determination.

Read Before You Go

The Long and Winding Island

New York’s Long Island has long served as a backdrop for social and political conflicts between the newly arrived and the established residents.

Chinese Ships, Danza Azteca, and Falling Asleep

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The Fifteenth Amendment: Annotated

The brevity of the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution belies its impact on American voting rights.

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Politics & History

The Erie Canal at 200

Finished in October 1825, the Erie Canal connected increasingly specialized regions, altering the economic landscape of the northeast United States.

Arts & Culture

The Lessons of Due Process in Julius Caesar

Shakespeare's tragedy offers a telling parable about the administration of justice—and rife mishandling thereof—in our day.

Long Reads

Arts & Culture

Caught in Partition’s Violent Fray

Published seventy-five year ago, Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar explores the devastation suffered by the women of India and Pakistan after political rupture.

The cover of the book "The Sandinista Revolution"

Politics & History

The Sandinista Revolution, Reconsidered

A new book from historian Mateo Jarquín seeks to decouple Nicaragua’s unique socialist uprising from reductive Cold War clichés.

A student at Tuskegee University in Alabama learns to print a newspaper page in the Institute's printing works, ca. 1955

Arts & Culture

The Enduring Value of Student Newspapers

More than curiosities, college papers are unique pedagogical tools that help undergraduates achieve media literacy.

Efka Pyramiden cigarette papers in a green packaging sleeve made in Nazi Germany, Accession Number 2004.705.5

Politics & History

Papering Over History

Efka—the German rolling paper company—was a Nazi regime favorite. After World War II, it was refashioned as a darling of the pot-infused counterculture.

Editors' Picks

Arts & Culture

Rebecca Lehmann on Breaking the Rules of Poetry

An interview with writer and poet Rebecca Lehmann, who finds splendid things can follow when she stretches the rules of craft.

Politics & History

The Voting Rights Act 1965: Annotated

The passing of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965 prohibited the use of Jim Crow laws and discriminatory tests to disenfranchise Black voters.

Science & Technology

A Practical Machine: The Wright Brothers in Dayton

Orville and Wilbur Wright wanted to create a practical machine—not a novelty or a gimmick—and they accomplished that at Ohio’s Huffman Prairie on October 5, 1905.

Science & Technology

Jane Goodall

An intellectual powerhouse and dedicated conservationist, Goodall showed generations of humans how to engage with—and take care of—the natural world.

Arts & Culture

From Oriental Riviera to Global Asia: Hong Kong in Travel Posters

A collection of travel posters shared via JSTOR by Hong Kong Baptist University highlights Hong Kong’s unique place in the global imagination over the decades.

Quirky History

Pekinese competitors arrive in the arms of their owners at the Wimbledon Dog Show, 1912

The Surprising Imperial History of the Pekingese Dog

Upper-class British women in the early 1900s participated in a craze for Pekingese dogs, signalling the role of empire in their social identities.

Green Sickness, the Disease of Virgins

In the mid-seventeenth century, John Graunt, the “father of English statistics,” claimed dozens of young women in London died of green sickness every year.

The Bowling Alley: It’s a Woman’s World

Even when it was considered socially unacceptable, American women were knocking down pins on the local lanes.

Collections on JSTOR

A selection of images from the Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, housed at Notre Dame University-Louaize

Documenting a Disappearing Architecture

The Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, supported by an innovative mapping project, details threatened buildings across Lebanon.

A selection of pages from the The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries Bibliotheca Fictiva collection

Enchanting Imposters

Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery shows that humans have been creating fan fiction and fake news for millennia.

Send in the Clowns

Lulu Adams came from a long, illustrious line of circus performers and was credited—even if wrongly—with being the world’s first female clown.

Reading Lists

Stained Glass Window in the Nazareth Synagogue in Paris

Introduction to Jewish Studies: A Reading List

The broad, ever-expanding field of Jewish Studies is united by texts, events, and figures that engage an established canon of ideas across disciplines.

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Speculative Fiction: A Reading List

Speculative fiction, from Afrofuturism to Star Wars, offers students tools and methods for analyzing social movements, power structures, and utopian thinking.

A parent and child near windmills at sunset

Black Midwestern Studies: A Reading List

This primer on Black Midwestern Studies examines the factors shaping communities of color in America’s “flyover country,” long mistaken as a place of normative whiteness.