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Maxine Singer, Norton Zindler, Sydney Brenner and Paul Berg at the Asilomar Conference, February 1975

The Legacy of Asilomar

The 1975 scientific conference laid the ground rules governing the next half century (and counting) of biological research and public scrutiny of it.

Archive Adventures

Shadowbox with a wedding photograph of a bride and groom, surrounded by the bride's veil

First Comes Love

A top divorce lawyer collected strangers’ marriage certificates and other wedding-related ephemera—a testament to her perhaps surprising faith in matrimony.

JSTOR Collections

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.

The Where We Were

The Louvre Museum in Paris

Pyramids of the Present

We associate pyramids with ancient civilizations, but contemporary humans appear to have an affinity for the peaked structures as well.

Plant of the Month

Fruit of the pong-pong tree (Cerbera odollam)

Cerbera odollam: “The Suicide Tree” That Harms and Heals

Even before The White Lotus, people feared the poisonous pong-pong tree, Cerbera odollam. But there's another way to look at the plant and its effects.

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Unclassics: Obscure Electronic Funk and Disco, 1975–1985

Quebec Disco: Influenced by Italo Disco?

Ostensibly developing on continents apart, the sounds Quebec Disco and Italo Disco exhibited an identifiable sonic kinship.
The 18th Regiment arrives during the Homestead Strike of 1892

How Steelworkers Stopped a Paramilitary Movement

Despite failing to break the Homestead Strike in 1892, the Pinkerton Agency demonstrated the extralegal threat paramilitary agencies created for Americans.

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Archive Adventures

Shadowbox with a wedding photograph of a bride and groom, surrounded by the bride's veil

First Comes Love

A top divorce lawyer collected strangers’ marriage certificates and other wedding-related ephemera—a testament to her perhaps surprising faith in matrimony.

JSTOR Collections

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.

The Where We Were

The Louvre Museum in Paris

Pyramids of the Present

We associate pyramids with ancient civilizations, but contemporary humans appear to have an affinity for the peaked structures as well.

Plant of the Month

Fruit of the pong-pong tree (Cerbera odollam)

Cerbera odollam: “The Suicide Tree” That Harms and Heals

Even before The White Lotus, people feared the poisonous pong-pong tree, Cerbera odollam. But there's another way to look at the plant and its effects.

Long Reads

All Grown Up: JSTOR Turns Thirty

What started out as an experiment in digitizing under-used scholarship blossomed into an invaluable online educational resource for students and faculty alike.
Vannevar Bush

Science in War, Science in Peace: The Origins of the NSF

The 1950 establishment of a federal agency devoted to space, physics, and more belied a cross-party consensus that such disciplines were vital to national interest.
From the cover of From Rupture to Refuge: The Coordinates of Contemporary Refugee Narratives by Peter Sloane

Refugee Lit Stakes Its Worthy Claim

Peter Sloane’s new study examines the narratives put forth by asylum seekers striving to reclaim their stories from mainstream media and political discourse.
Virginia Woolf

A Hundred Years of Mrs. Dalloway

An exemplar of modernism, Virginia Woolf's revolutionary novel explored ideas—psychology, sexuality, imperialism—that roiled the twentieth century.

In Lowell, boarding houses were built into the design of the city and were owned by the corporations where their tenants toiled.

Lowell’s Forgotten House Mothers

A man scrambles up a gully on the Crestone Needle in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado.

How Science Might Help Keep Wild Places Wild

Recreation researchers are studying how to minimize human impact on public lands while maximizing accessibility.
West County Recycles, Richmond, CA

Did “Big Oil” Sell Us on a Recycling Scam?

Our focus on recycling to save the planet may be missing the mark.
Watercolor painting of the earth by Martin Eklund

On Earth Day

Celebrate Earth Day with stories from JSTOR Daily.