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The Intimate Memorials of a Ladies Literary Club

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

Cabinet of Curiosities

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.

Roundup

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.

In the Limelight

Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater

In the 1800s, women playing tragic leads captivated crowds while critics struggled to reconcile talent with gender norms.

JSTOR Collections

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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Vibrant sassafras leaves create a colorful understory in the woods near the Great Marsh Area of the Massachusetts North Shore. Sassafras leaves are unique for their three distinct shapes: a simple oval, a two-lobed "mitten" shape, and a three-lobed shape.

Plant of the Month

Sassafras: From Scent to Science in American Medicine

How did sassafras go from cure-all to carcinogen? Its history links Indigenous knowledge, colonial trade, and modern scientific debate.

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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.

Cabinet of Curiosities

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.

Roundup

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.

In the Limelight

Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater

In the 1800s, women playing tragic leads captivated crowds while critics struggled to reconcile talent with gender norms.

JSTOR Collections

William Hodges and the Art of Empire

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

Newsletter

Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s

A century ago, new technology and mobility reshaped what it meant to be young, linking rural life more closely to the city.

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.

Studio portrait of amateur photographer Tan Gwat Bing in Central Java

Politics & History

The Immigrant Photographers Who Shaped a Nation’s Image

In early twentieth-century Indonesia, Chinese-run studios brought modernity into focus.

Long Reads

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.

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.

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

Islands of the Imagination

A short history of islands as sites of political escape and reinvention, from the myth of Atlantis to modern seasteading.

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.