Jazmin Smith, Author at JSTOR Daily

Postmodernist painter and printmaker Emma Amos makes artwork that references historical figures as well as her family legacy.

In recent history comic art has crossed boundaries to enter other mediums. So why aren't art historians paying more attention?

While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This is no coincidence.

Fake news has plenty of precedents in the history of mass media, and particularly, in the history of American journalism.

Noah Webster, author of An American Dictionary of the English Language published in 1828, invented the word "immigration."

Abortion was first criminalized in the U.S. in the mid-19th century. A key argument was that too many white women were ending their pregnancies.

The "deep state" idea of a shadowy parallel government, heard much in the news now, seems to be a concept borrowed from the Turkish experience.

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