Teaching Students to Follow an Idea
A five-step classroom exercise reframes research as an evolving scholarly conversation rather than a search for sources.
How to Refine Your JSTOR Search
Too many JSTOR results? Learn how filters and Advanced Search can help you quickly identify sources that fit your research topic.
What Civics Class Is For
Should schools tackle controversial political issues? A 1903 educator thought doing so was essential to preparing future voters.
Why Hawaii Put Japanese into Public Schools
Political and religious leaders battled for influence through the education of Japanese immigrant children.
How to Search JSTOR with Keywords
Turn a research question into an effective search strategy that delivers more useful scholarly results.
Introduction to Jewish Studies: A Reading List
The broad, ever-expanding field of Jewish Studies is united by texts, events, and figures that engage an established canon of ideas across disciplines.
Science Lit for Kids Holds a Mirror Aloft
Over decades, books that rouse children’s interest in the natural world have morphed in style and approach—an evolution reflective of tectonic societal change.
Joshua May and the Search for Philosophical Nuance
In his teaching and his research, philosopher Joshua May reminds us that binary, all-or-nothing arguments often rest on false dichotomies.
Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged
Attendance at elite high schools can shift the practices of college students from disadvantaged backgrounds to being closer to those of middle-class students.
Transatlantic Studies: A Reading List
Using the Atlantic Ocean as a guiding metaphor, transatlanticism emphasizes the fluid nature of contrived national boundaries and identities.