Hiking route through the Catalan Pyrenees

Homo sapiens Regularly Crossed the Pyrenees During the Ice Age

Here’s what they took with them.

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.
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson: A Vote for Cutting Off Your Nose

To reduce Virginia’s use of the death penalty, Thomas Jefferson proposed using permanent disfigurement as a punishment for rape, polygamy, and sodomy.
Isis Theater, 1932

The Chinese Movie Theater in Shanghai’s “No Man’s Land”

The Isis Theater of pre-war Shanghai occupied a unique space as a Chinese-run cinema in an international “contact zone.”
A Female African Wildcat seen on a safari in South Africa

Wild Cats, Hearing Voices, and Lost Herring

Well-researched stories from Undark, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A set of dummies propped up in the Sahara Desert awaiting a third atomic bomb explosion during the French nuclear testing.

Nuclear France’s Empire of the Bomb

The first French nuclear bomb test took place in the Sahara in 1960 in the midst of the Algerian War, but French history doesn’t connect the two events.
The road to Mount Mulanje in southern Malawi

Existentialists in Malawi

Proverbs and popular songs from Malawi examine and express ideas similar to those found in European existentialism.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, bottom left, speaks during the Opening Ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at The Great Hall of People on October 16, 2022 in Beijing, China.

Autocratic Capitalism: An Introduction

Americans are taught that capitalism and democracy go together like motherhood and apple pie. It may be time to unlearn that lesson.
James Baldwin

LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

June is LGBTQ Pride Month, so JSTOR Daily gathered some of our favorite stories to celebrate. All with free and accessible scholarly research.
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.