Is a world without borders an idea so crazy it just might work? Scholars weigh in on how open borders might solve the world's immigration problem.

In the modern Western world, drug use fits well into economies that divide our days into disciplined, production-oriented “clock time,” and leisure time.

The Freedom of Information Act of 1966 (or FOIA) was the result of a struggle by Congress and private business for information from the executive branch.

Seventy-four years ago today, lawmakers passed an amendment to the U.S. Flag Code.

The U.S. Department of Education now recognizes biliteracy as a mark of educational excellence, which may mean that bilingual education is coming back.

A historian of Latin America, and a victim of two dictatorships, Galeano was also inevitably a historian of the colossus to the north.

Megan Kate Nelson, a historian of Civil War and the American Southwest, is behind the (Un)Catalogued Column for JSTOR Daily.