Where did the myth that English men (and probably women) were hiding tails beneath their clothing come from? And what was that about eggs?

Despite an enduring slice of audience that treats his work as precious and mythic, most Shakespeare fans have rarely met an adaptive concept they didn’t like.

A Johns Hopkins University curator of sheet music and pop culture discusses a “Middle East-inspired” sheet-music collection that’s anything but.

The birds aren’t the only ones with their heads in the sand.

Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Originally known in China as Dizāng, the “savior of the damned,” Jizō has evolved into a protector of children and comforter of women in Japan.

Help students develop analytic and scholarly questioning skills using a quick activity built on JSTOR Daily roundups and syllabi.

Museums around the world honor the history of the revolutionary, but as Singapore’s Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall shows, those memories aren’t easy to read.

Hip-hop and other performative arts offer Southeast Asian American immigrants a way to construct richer narratives about the refugee experience.

Before the Civil War, pro-slavery forces in the South—particularly the future president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis—tried to extend their power westward.