Publication Title

Comparative Drama

Cabinet of Curiosities

“Beating the Bounds”

How did people find out where their local boundaries were before there were reliable maps?

Open Community Collections

To Be or Not to Be Hamlet

The drama of playing the famous prince. In pictures.

Arts & Culture

iHamlet

On the eve of the much-anticipated release of iPhone 6, the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater presented iHamlet.

Editors' Picks

Education & Society

Charlottesville Syllabus: Readings on the History of Hate in America

The history of racism and ethnic hate in America is long and deep. What are the cultural, economic, and political currents that led us here?

Education & Society

Political Correctness Redux

The conservative anti-PC movement of the 1990s has its roots in a backlash against the Civil Rights movement.

Education & Society

African American Studies: Foundations and Key Concepts

This non-exhaustive list of readings in African American Studies highlights the vibrant history of the discipline and introduces the field.

Politics & History

The Devastation of Black Wall Street

Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1921. A wave of racial violence destroys an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.

Education & Society

Anger and Identity: JSTOR Daily Reads the News

What's the political use of anger?

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