View, in extreme close up, of a cat as seen with its teeth bared and a raised claw.

Metadata for Image Search and Discovery

Metadata helps you search for and find images of cats, for instance, whether or not you have a specific feline in mind.
The Performance Hall Foyer at West Core, Yale-NUS College. Yale-NUS is a liberal arts college founded by the Yale University and the National University of Singapore.

Why Asian Universities Are Embracing US Liberal Arts Programs

As schools in the US shift focus to technical or pre-professional programs, Asian institutions are recognizing the benefits of liberal arts education.
Central High School Annual Yearbook, Cleveland, Ohio,1920. Langston Hughes’s senior portrait is on the far right.

Class Production

A collection of high school yearbooks from Cleveland captures the rise, fall, and uncertain future of the American middle class.
Man typing on laptop. Subject view perspective. Wide angle.

A Bot Might Have Written This

ChatGPT is here. How can teachers and students proceed to use it with integrity?
Mao Zedong, circa 1930s

Mao Zedong: Reader, Librarian, Revolutionary?

Before becoming leader of communist China, Mao was an ardent library patron and then worked as a library assistant.
Albert Einstein, 1921

In Search of Einstein’s Brain

After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.
Watercolor painting of the earth by Martin Eklund

On Earth Day

Celebrate Earth Day with stories from JSTOR Daily.
Yellow Shank by John James Audubon, 1836

How to Look at Art and Understand What You See

There are dozens of ways of looking at visual art. None of them are wrong, but certain methods facilitate deeper connection and understanding.
Students in a music classroom

Tech in the Classroom in the 1910s

American music teacher Frances E. Clark helped the Victor Corporation bring recorded music into classrooms, overcoming educators’ distrust of the technology.
Hijras (transgender) dance as they get ready backstage before the Hijra talent show, part of the first ever event called Hijra Pride 2014, on November 10, 2014 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Gender in the History Classroom

High school teachers sometimes struggle to teach about ways different societies have conceptualized gender. Here’s a look at a few practical approaches.