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The Explorer Who Faked His Way Through the Hajj

Englishman Richard Burton wore several disguises, ranging from merchant to doctor to pilgrim in the holy city of Mecca.

Archive Adventures

The Space Race’s Forgotten Theme Park

Preserved documents and photographs trace the rise and fall of an ambitious space-themed park born of 1960s Space Race optimism.

Reading Lists

Rights of Nature: A Reading List

What would it mean for rivers, forests, and animals to have legal rights? A global movement is rethinking law’s relationship to nature.

Read Before You Go

Bermuda: The Long and the Shorts of It

A tiny Atlantic outpost once central to Britain’s colonial world, Bermuda’s calm seas conceal centuries of trade, slavery, and superstition.

Perspectives on Public Space

A War on Street Music in NYC

In the New Deal era, New York City banned street musicians, classifying them as beggars. Some New Yorkers fought back.

Most Recent

The Sacrifice of Isaac by Francesco Guardi, 1750s

Education & Society

A History of Existential Anxiety

From medieval theology to modern philosophy, dread has long been a guide for living ethically.

Plant of the Month

The Medicinal Wood That Turned Water Blue

For nearly half a millennium, botanists sought the "true" identity of Lignum nephriticum, a mysterious marvel that confounded early modern science.

Archive Adventures

The Space Race’s Forgotten Theme Park

Preserved documents and photographs trace the rise and fall of an ambitious space-themed park born of 1960s Space Race optimism.

Reading Lists

Rights of Nature: A Reading List

What would it mean for rivers, forests, and animals to have legal rights? A global movement is rethinking law’s relationship to nature.

Read Before You Go

Bermuda: The Long and the Shorts of It

A tiny Atlantic outpost once central to Britain’s colonial world, Bermuda’s calm seas conceal centuries of trade, slavery, and superstition.

Perspectives on Public Space

A War on Street Music in NYC

In the New Deal era, New York City banned street musicians, classifying them as beggars. Some New Yorkers fought back.

Tarring and Feathering, American Style

What began as a European folk practice became a distinctly American ritual of public punishment.

Politics & History

The Explorer Who Faked His Way Through the Hajj

Englishman Richard Burton wore several disguises, ranging from merchant to doctor to pilgrim in the holy city of Mecca.

The morning after the Battle of Waterloo on June 19, 1815, by John Heaviside Clark

Cabinet of Curiosities

Souvenir Hunting on the Battlefield of Waterloo

At Waterloo, a site of immense bloodshed, tourists quickly turned the aftermath of war into collectibles.

Long Reads

Portraits of victims at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile

Politics & History

Memory’s Role in Chile’s Democratic Rebirth

In post-Pinochet Chile, public memory became a pathway to accountability.

Politics & History

In Pursuit of Peace, Ancient Athens Created a Goddess

In the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War, Athenians worshipped Eirene. Her cult reflects the political role of religion in Ancient Greece.

An illustration of a forest consumed by fire as animals flee.

Natural Science

The Fires This Time

To understand current mass burning events better, scientists are turning to the phenomenon known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly.

William Butler Yeats with his wife Georgie Hyde Lees, 1923

Arts & Culture

Yeats and the Occult Imagination

Beneath his poems lay a lifelong devotion to magic, divination, and a visionary system that shaped his most prophetic work.

Editors' Picks

Arts & Culture

Rebecca Lehmann on Breaking the Rules of Poetry

An interview with writer and poet Rebecca Lehmann, who finds splendid things can follow when she stretches the rules of craft.

Politics & History

The Voting Rights Act 1965: Annotated

The passing of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965 prohibited the use of Jim Crow laws and discriminatory tests to disenfranchise Black voters.

Science & Technology

A Practical Machine: The Wright Brothers in Dayton

Orville and Wilbur Wright wanted to create a practical machine—not a novelty or a gimmick—and they accomplished that at Ohio’s Huffman Prairie on October 5, 1905.

Science & Technology

Jane Goodall

An intellectual powerhouse and dedicated conservationist, Goodall showed generations of humans how to engage with—and take care of—the natural world.

Arts & Culture

From Oriental Riviera to Global Asia: Hong Kong in Travel Posters

A collection of travel posters shared via JSTOR by Hong Kong Baptist University highlights Hong Kong’s unique place in the global imagination over the decades.

Quirky History

Souvenir Hunting on the Battlefield of Waterloo

At Waterloo, a site of immense bloodshed, tourists quickly turned the aftermath of war into collectibles.

Pekinese competitors arrive in the arms of their owners at the Wimbledon Dog Show, 1912

The Surprising Imperial History of the Pekingese Dog

Upper-class British women in the early 1900s participated in a craze for Pekingese dogs, signalling the role of empire in their social identities.

Green Sickness, the Disease of Virgins

In the mid-seventeenth century, John Graunt, the “father of English statistics,” claimed dozens of young women in London died of green sickness every year.

Collections on JSTOR

Greening Philly’s Neglected Lots

Spearheaded by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, an urban beautification program transformed neighborhoods in the city of brotherly love.

The Tamest Grizzly of Yellowstone

Adored by tourists and studied by scientists, a grizzly mother named Sylvia became an emblem of the fragile balance between humans and the wild.

A selection of images from the Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, housed at Notre Dame University-Louaize

Documenting a Disappearing Architecture

The Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, supported by an innovative mapping project, details threatened buildings across Lebanon.

Reading Lists

Landscape garden showing the foot path, lawn area, benches, water feature and pavilion on background. This sketch created, drawn in pen and marker.

Landscape Architecture: A Reading List

A survey of classic and contemporary works revealing how cities, materials, power, and ecology shape landscapes—and how design can create healthier, more just places.

A view of the landscape seen along the Golden Gate Trail in the Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.

The Promise and Problems of Public Lands: A Reading List

Discover key research on U.S. public lands through scholarly works exploring conservation, Indigenous knowledge, and public policy.

Panoramic of 14th street and Union Square. Taken August 25, 2017 in New York.

Perspectives on Public Space: A Reading List

This list introduces some of the main debates about public space, from park politics to political protest, public expressions of sexuality to safety and security.