Living in exile in Germany, the young New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield found solace in studying—and copying—Chekhov’s short stories.

What are scientists to do? Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton and historian of science Naomi Oreskes consider the social responsibility of climate scientists.

In sixteenth-century Spain, veiling allowed women to move freely through cities while keeping their identities private.

A special group of molecules, known as peptides, can form more easily under the conditions of space than those found on Earth.

The creation and propagation of standard penmanship in the American education system is almost as old as the United States itself.

An archival collection shared by Middlebury College invites the curious to make connections across the history of American literature.

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

At the height of circus animal acts in the late nineteenth century, animals who killed their captors might be publicly executed for their “crimes.”

Use JSTOR resources and this five-step process to help students learn how to complete a scholarly research project.

In the first few years of life, children learn much from the observation of the adults around them—including their biases.