Greek and Roman physicians used bodily waste to treat illness. The disgust it inspired may have been part of the appeal.

What makes someone else's behavior so embarrassing? The answer lies in our expectations of how people should act.

Why studying literature and philosophy remains essential in a world increasingly focused on career-ready skills.

Before Disneyland, Fantasia brought imagineering to life through an ambitious experiment in animation. Fantasia is an early ...

In a recently published landmark survey, 10,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 25 were asked to share how they feel about climate change and governments’ response to it. The results paint a ...

A collection of Texas directories from 1913 to 1959 shows how phone books—and the people who used them—helped invent ...

As London’s graveyards overflowed, a private company proposed a remarkable new way to bury the dead.

Once a key site of Cold War arms production, Rocky Flats is now a wildlife refuge. What happened to its troubled past?

I teach first-year academic writing courses in the University of Georgia English Department. Lately, I have been using JSTOR to help my students see research differently through an activity I call ...

Art Nouveau remains one of the most popular forms of modern art. The style had multiple permutations and names in different countries in fin-de-siècle Europe, but it was first named “art nouveau” in ...

In 1982, the American Library Association established Banned Books Week in response to the increase in challenges to books in libraries, classrooms, and school libraries. Of course, censorship and ...