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.
San Pier Maggiore altarpiece

When the Bishop Married the Abbess

When a new bishop was installed in the see of medieval Florence, he was also expected to marry—at least symbolically—the abbess of San Pier Maggiore.
The Mansion of Happiness, 1894

Bring on the Board Games

The increasing secularism of the nineteenth century helped make board games a commercial and ideological success in the United States.
A businessman pushed against a ceiling

Social Mobility and the “Class Ceiling” in the UK

People from working-class backgrounds in the UK bump up against a "class ceiling" analogous to the glass ceiling women face in the workplace.
Chiesa del Redentore, Venice

Bringing Turkish Style to Europe

In seventeenth-century Europe, architects adopted styles from the Ottoman empire to create new kinds of social spaces including public baths and coffeehouses.
Tristan da Cunha

Tristan da Cunha: The Longest Trip

Accessible only by ship, the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha hosts a resilient human population—and heck of a lot of rock lobsters.
Military formations during a Victory Day military parade, marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, on June 24, 2020 in Volgograd, Russia.

When History is a Matter of “National Security”

Since the mid-1990s, Russian authorities have insisted on particular understandings of some parts of the country’s history as a matter of national security.
Frame from the 1935 film Carnival of Colours

Putting the Red in Soviet Color Film

A Soviet alternative to Disney cartoon became a state ideal, but the three-color process behind Silly Symphony cartoons wasn’t easy to perfect.
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine on the Strengths of the Medical Humanities

An interview with Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, who explores the parallels in historical events with contemporary public health practice and policies.
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