Heather Gilligan explores the impact of racism on the fight towards universal health care.

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Treasury Notes, a new JSTOR Daily column, will discuss money in its historical context.

Public Relations or PR wasn't always so fundamental to business. There was a time when we didn't really know what it meant.

How history textbooks reinforced narratives of racism, and the fight to change those books from the 1940s to the present.

We look at the discovery of petroleum, both linguistically and practically.

The first human head transplant is scheduled for 2017. But the possibility of transplants has transfixed scientists for most of the last century.

We go into the world of cosplay, where men and women dress up and role-play as their favorite fictional characters.

Despite a long tradition of scientific inquiry and study, no Chinese scientist has won the coveted Nobel Prize. Until now. We try to understand why.

Just as the Titanic had redefined passenger liners, so too would the Zephyr transform the American railway.