Researchers at Cambridge studied how peoples' brains respond to fear.

The Smithsonian Institution is running a Kickstarter campaign to restore and preserve Dorothy’s ruby slippers from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. 

Celebrate El Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, through the rich literary traditions of our JSTOR poets and writers.

Music charts conferred status on performers and became an arbiter of popularity and a signifier of success.

Radio dramas became a way for broadcasters to get into the minds of listeners…and to comment on the very influence of radio itself.

Paul Beatty has become the first American author ever to win the Man Booker Prize. Beatty won the award for his sharp satirical novel The Sellout.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, upper-class America went gaga over a vision of the medieval. Carpenter’s Gothic ...

Plants have long employed a variety of defensive strategies against herbivores, but the scope and sophistication of these defenses is still being understood.

Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, and became in her short life one of the most influential poets of the era.

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, won and lost fortunes, giving into a compulsion that pitted her against some of society’s most notorious ne’er-do-wells.