Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

 Islam in America is clearly nothing new.

Before Helen Keller, there was Laura Bridgman, the first blind and deaf woman who learned to communicate through language.

Martha Stewart has a new show with Snoop Dogg, premiering November 7 on VH1.

History tells us that the fermentation of various fruits and grains to create alcoholic beverages was a worldwide phenomenon. Case in point: wine in China.

Piltdown Man was once considered the missing link between apes and humans. What happened?

Mustangs, as the wild horses of the American West are known, represent something different for everyone.

We asked JSTOR Daily readers what books and authors they remembered most from childhood. Madeleine L'Engle came up a lot.

The author John le Carré, who real name is David Cornwall, is the subject of both a recent biography and his own brand new memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel.

Bioluminescence, an animal's ability to create and use light, exists exclusively in the lower branches of the tree of life.