JSTOR Daily published more than 580 stories in 2024, with topics ranging from disaster tourism to the Delhi Durbars, legal personhood to lunar science, and peer review to Paul Revere Williams. Here are a few of our favorites. As always, each includes links to free, relevant scholarship on JSTOR. Happy reading!
January 29, 2024
Between the medieval and modern world, the marks used to make writing more legible changed from “pointing” to punctuation.
April 10, 2024
By turns worshipped and reviled, the bird frequently associated with death has appeared in art works for thousands of years. Here’s a short history.
August 3, 2024
In 1958, Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai A. Kozyrev claimed there was an active volcano on the Moon. Dutch American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper begged to differ.
July 29, 2024
On October 6, 1923, Iowa State tackle Jack Trice lined up for the second half of a college football game. No one’s sure what happened in that third quarter.
March 1, 2024
Days after a failed dam led to the drowning deaths of more than 2,200 people, the Pennsylvania industrial town was flooded again—with tourists.
August 30, 2024
Did you break a campus rule? Let the students of Millersville Normal School show you how to confess to the administration.
July 11, 2024
The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.
January 24, 2024
Intellectual humility is defined as a willingness to admit you’re wrong. It could be just the idea for our self-righteous times.
March 25, 2024
Black-authored print was central to James G. Birney’s conversion from enslaver to abolitionist and presidential candidate.
May 1, 2024
A new collection of essays examines the reasons behind the recent boom in feature and documentary film-making from Belize to Panama.
February 9, 2024
In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
July 13, 2024
A Vietnamese double agent who infiltrated and led the Communist Party of Malaya in the 1930s, Lai Teck also spied for the British and the Japanese.
April 19, 2024
Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language declared Americans free from the tyranny of British institutions and their vocabularies.
July 25, 2024
Cabinetmaker to Marie Antoinette, Roentgen designed “surprise furniture,” bureaus and desks that appeared to magically transform at the push of a button.
March 6, 2024
Writers have long plotted murder mysteries in gardens of all sorts. What makes these fertile grounds for detective fiction?
October 25, 2024
Look for this other-worldly plant in moist, shaded areas of mature forests throughout much of North America, East Asia, and northern South America.
April 5, 2024
Why are alpacas everywhere, and why are they so expensive?
September 25, 2024
Crazy cat ladies have come to dominate this election season. It’s hardly the first time.
January 14, 2024
Elaborate demonstrations of British royal ceremony fused with Indian tradition, these assemblies were meant to assert political dominance over Indian subjects.
November 15, 2024
Discover the austere island retreat where Big Brother was born.
February 13, 2024
The first African American architect licensed in the state of California, Williams blazed a trail to the (Hollywood) stars.
July 15, 2024
Italian immigrants had no qualms about working and living alongside Black Americans, which made them targets for violence by white vigilantes in Louisiana.
January 25, 2024
The 1895 show purported to show a genuine Southern Black community and demonstrate Black cultural progress in America, from enslavement to citizenship.
July 21, 2024
The term “peer review” was coined in the 1970s, but the referee principle is usually assumed to be as old as the scientific enterprise itself. (It isn’t.)
April 13, 2024
Groups such as Just Stop Oil are calling for change, but their aims need to be considered with respect to more than a reductionist slogan.
March 13, 2024
In addition to a New Wave hit, Nell Dunn's 1963 book about young women in a poor London neighborhood inspired a Ken Loach adaption that helped shift British attitudes toward abortion.
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