In sixteenth-century Spain, veiling allowed women to move freely through cities while keeping their identities private.

At the height of circus animal acts in the late nineteenth century, animals who killed their captors might be publicly executed for their “crimes.”

The Korean-owned corner shop in a Black neighborhood serves as shorthand for racial conflict, obscuring Los Angeles’s intersectional histories.

Celebrate Women's History Month all March with JSTOR Daily. We hope you'll find the stories below, and the scholarship they include in full, a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.

Common in colonial New England, bundling allowed a suitor to spend a night in bed with his sweetheart—while her parents slept in the next room.

For Black women engaged with local institutions, the “Delsarte” technique was a means of supporting struggling city residents while advancing political power.

JSTOR Daily editors pick their favorite stories for Black History Month.

What happens when you mix alcohol with intellectual humility? A philosopher asks a writer and former bartender to share her thoughts.

In the 1930s, hitchhiking was viewed as an opportunity for generosity on the part of the driver and a way to practice good manners on the part of the rider.

In the 1960s and ’70s, guides began wearing period costumes and farming with historical techniques, a change that coincided with the back-to-the-land movement.