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Preserving the Art of Ed Aulerich-Sugai

An artist’s work is traced through memory, stewardship, and decades of care.

Archive Adventures

The Ladies Literary Club in 1951

The Intimate Memorials of a Ladies Literary Club

These remembrances reveal a century of women’s friendships in one Midwestern literary club.

Roundup

From left to right: Stuart Dybek, Lydia Davis, Aimee Bender, Osama Alomar, K. D. Walker, Venita Blackburn

Six Flash Fiction Stories by Contemporary Writers

Compact narratives of precision and surprise, by Lydia Davis, Aimee Bender, Stuart Dybek, Venita Blackburn, and more.

Cabinet of Curiosities

Illustration from a woman standing on a soapbox speaking into a microphone, 1944

The Golden Age of the American Soapbox

Across the country, impromptu speakers drew crowds and arrests alike, turning public oratory into a defining feature of civic life.

JSTOR Collections

Chunar seen from the Ganges, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1785.

William Hodges and the Art of Empire

How a traveling landscape painter helped create a homogeneous vision of the British Empire.

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From the cover of Vietnam: The Boat People Search for a Home
Politics & History

How 1980s Children’s Books Framed Vietnamese Refugees

Children’s books introduced Vietnamese refugees to US readers, often simplifying their histories and experiences.
A bottle of Shaker Anodyne from Enfield Shaker Village in New Hampshire
Education & Society

A Trusted Name in a Dubious Drug Market

Amid the fraud and flimflam of early drug markets, Shakers stood for purity, creating a brand others were eager to exploit.

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Archive Adventures

The Ladies Literary Club in 1951

The Intimate Memorials of a Ladies Literary Club

These remembrances reveal a century of women’s friendships in one Midwestern literary club.

Roundup

From left to right: Stuart Dybek, Lydia Davis, Aimee Bender, Osama Alomar, K. D. Walker, Venita Blackburn

Six Flash Fiction Stories by Contemporary Writers

Compact narratives of precision and surprise, by Lydia Davis, Aimee Bender, Stuart Dybek, Venita Blackburn, and more.

Cabinet of Curiosities

Illustration from a woman standing on a soapbox speaking into a microphone, 1944

The Golden Age of the American Soapbox

Across the country, impromptu speakers drew crowds and arrests alike, turning public oratory into a defining feature of civic life.

JSTOR Collections

Chunar seen from the Ganges, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1785.

William Hodges and the Art of Empire

How a traveling landscape painter helped create a homogeneous vision of the British Empire.

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An abstract black and white and yellow illustration
Arts & Culture

Why Does Music in Science Fiction Sound Like That?

Imagining the sound of other worlds has a long past—and persistent creative limits.
Arts & Culture

Just Wilde About Hair

The evolution of Oscar Wilde’s hair offers insight into how he constructed and revised his public identity.
George Templeton Strong
Arts & Culture

Inside a Four-Million-Word Diary of 1860s New York

George Templeton Strong chronicles Civil War–era New York with unmatched immediacy, capturing daily life and upheaval.

Long Reads

The cover of The Urgency of Indigenous Values by Philip P. Arnold
Education & Society

The Urgency of Indigenous Values

As global crises mount, religion scholar Philip P. Arnold argues the Haudenosaunee’s Great Law of Peace offers a way out of the West’s self-destructive path.
JSTOR Collections

Malibu in Matchbooks: Clues to a Lost Coast

A collection of matchbooks from Southern California maps a vanished mid-century commercial corridor, long displaced by fire and time.
An illustration of German carnival
Politics & History

The Hidden Politics of German Carnival

From the Middle Ages to the Third Reich, carnival has served as a stage for protest and power.
JSTOR Collections

Building Brasília

A twentieth-century experiment in urban planning promised progress—but carried immense financial and human costs.

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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

Terror Antiquus by L.Bakst, 1908

Islands of the Imagination

A short history of islands as sites of political escape and reinvention, from the myth of Atlantis to modern seasteading.
An illustration of a giant squid, 1887

How a Giant Squid Attack Became an Urban Legend

A WWII survivor’s account shifted over decades, turning a murky sea encounter into a widely repeated legend.
A person playing chess in the 19th century beside a person posing with a telegraph

The First E-Sports? Chess by Telegraph

Telegraph cables let chess clubs stage matches across continents, linking players and spectators in a new kind of long-distance competition.

Collections on JSTOR

Malibu in Matchbooks: Clues to a Lost Coast

A collection of matchbooks from Southern California maps a vanished mid-century commercial corridor, long displaced by fire and time.

Building Brasília

A twentieth-century experiment in urban planning promised progress—but carried immense financial and human costs.
The Sylvester T. Everett Residence, architect Charles Frederick Schweinfurth’s first Cleveland commission. The residence was built 1883-1887 and demolished in 1938. It was located at corner of Euclid and East 40th Street.

How America’s Industrial Elite Built Their Own Palaces

Historic photographs capture Cleveland’s Millionaires’ Row, where Gilded Age wealth met revival-style splendor.

Reading Lists

Colorful landscape with colorful mountains and sun

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.
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.

Partner Posts

Tonka beans

Tonka Bean: The Tale of a Contested Commodity

The rise and fall of the sweet-smelling seeds of Dipteryx odorata stands in stark contrast to the tree’s lasting presence in global markets.
An old oyster bed now lying exposed on a beach in South Carolina. The oysters are no longer alive, but many shells remain in their original position.

Shucking the Past: Can Oysters Thrive Again?

Dredging and pollution devastated the once-bountiful reefs. Careful science may help bring them back.
An image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 18, 2012.

“Space Tornadoes” Could Cause Geomagnetic Storms

But these phenomena, spun off ejections from the Sun, aren’t easy to study.

Unlike already established symbols such as the peony, peach, or pomegranate, the mango had no preexisting meaning in China and, importantly, no association with emperors or divinity.

When Mao’s Mango Mania Took Over China

Annotations

The Fifteenth Amendment and its results, drawn by G.F. Kahl, 1870

The Fifteenth Amendment: Annotated

The brevity of the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution belies its impact on American voting rights.
Copy of the signature page of the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

“Declaration of Sentiments”: Annotated

The document that came out of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention extended the long-lived and hard-fought movement for women’s rights in the United States.
Bill of Rights, 1791

The Bill of Rights: Annotated

Proposed as a compromise to ensure the ratification of the new US Constitution, the Bill of Rights has become a critical protector of civil liberties.

Teaching Resources

Anna May Wong

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Our best stories about the vast histories and cultures of Americans with ancestry in Asia and the Pacific.
From left to right: Claudia Rankine, Mary Ruefle, Michael Burkard, Victoria Chang, Arthur Rimbaud, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

10 Prose Poems That Think Outside the Line

Poems that blur the boundaries of form, by Claudia Rankine, Louise Glück, Victoria Chang, Arthur Rimbaud, Layli Long Soldier, Mary Ruefle, and more.
A collage of poets for National Poetry Month

A Reader’s Guide to Poetry for National Poetry Month

Read poems, learn poetic forms, and discover writers in this National Poetry Month roundup.

Reveal Digital Collections

Frank O'Hara

12 Poems by Frank O’Hara

Plus his manifesto on Personism and writings about O’Hara by Ted Berrigan, Joseph LeSueur, and Joe Brainard.
Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36531311

Toledo’s Most Singular Pharmacist

The Ella P. Stewart Scrapbooks offer insight into the life and legacy of a pioneering Black woman who broke color barriers and helped birth the fight for civil rights.

Feminist Bookstore News by the Numbers

Now part of Reveal Digital, Feminist Bookstore News was a vital source of information (and gossip) amid a flourishing in publishing fifty years ago.

Roundup

Anna May Wong

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Our best stories about the vast histories and cultures of Americans with ancestry in Asia and the Pacific.
From left to right: Claudia Rankine, Mary Ruefle, Michael Burkard, Victoria Chang, Arthur Rimbaud, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

10 Prose Poems That Think Outside the Line

Poems that blur the boundaries of form, by Claudia Rankine, Louise Glück, Victoria Chang, Arthur Rimbaud, Layli Long Soldier, Mary Ruefle, and more.
A collage of poets for National Poetry Month

A Reader’s Guide to Poetry for National Poetry Month

Read poems, learn poetic forms, and discover writers in this National Poetry Month roundup.

Natural Science

An illustration of a fossilized claw from Megalonyx Jeffersonii, a giant ground sloth, found in a cave in Greenbriar County, West Virginia.

Jefferson’s Fossils

What can Thomas Jefferson’s mistaken ideas about fossils tell us about science and belief in the early United States?
An illustration of a forest consumed by fire as animals flee.

The Fires This Time

To understand current mass burning events better, scientists are turning to the phenomenon known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly.
A photograph of spiral nebula M 51 taken by the Lick observatory, 1900

The Hidden Aesthetics of Early Astrophotography

Behind the transformative star photographs of the 1880s lay a complex collaboration between astronomers and engravers.

Sustainability & The Environment

John Steinbeck, 1935.

Returning to Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez

A literary classic doubles as data, helping scientists trace decades of ecological change in the Gulf of California.
Source: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/36169/gathering-wild-rice-seth-eastman

Wild Rice and the Rights of Nature

A groundbreaking lawsuit asks whether wild rice, or manoomin, can hold legal rights under tribal law and the growing rights of nature movement.
Colorful landscape with colorful mountains and sun

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.