Happy New Year!
Why do we celebrate on the 1st of January? Do financial incentives help you stick to resolutions? And other burning questions.
What We’re Reading 2021
Mini book reports from your favorite bloggers and editors here at JSTOR Daily.
Our Most Popular Stories of 2021
This year, readers were into peanut butter and jelly, semi-conductors, bayonets, Victorian knitting manuals, plus the hard-working dogs of Medieval Europe.
Best of Suggested Readings 2021
Well-researched stories about octopus dreams, lost soil, reproductive resistance, and more from publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Our Writers’ Favorite Stories of 2021
Without our writers (and editors and fact checkers and producers) and you, we're nothing.
Black Spartacus, Great Books, and bell hooks
Well-researched stories from Hyperallergic, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Merry Christmas from the Wellcome Collection
Enjoy these historical Christmas images from the Wellcome Collection.
Floating Cities, Trans History, and Jazz in Ghana
Well-researched stories from Atlas Obscura, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Mind-Reading, New Dino, and Enslaved Women’s Resistance
Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Drinking Women, Scientific Art, and Torturing Trees
Well-researched stories from The London Review of Books, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Share These Victorian Holiday Cards
It's all birds and flowers and kittens in these greeting cards. May they, as one of the cards says, keep winter from your heart.
Soul City, History in Fiction, and Life on the Thames
Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Scientific American, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Black Brooklyn, Fascinating Fungi, and a New AI
Well-researched stories from BK Reader, The Guardian, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: A History in Pictures
In 1927, the parade replaced live animals with helium balloons designed by puppeteer Tony Sarg.
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
A collection of our recent stories in celebration of American Indian Heritage Month.
Climate Change: A Syllabus
A selection of stories to foster dialogue among students both inside and outside of the classroom.
Whale Poop, Dogs without Humans, and Methane Danger
Well-researched stories from The Atlantic, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Condor Parthenogenesis, Smartphones, and Whale Talk
Well-researched stories from Gizmodo, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A New History, Fabulous Viruses, and Future Creatures
Well-researched stories from The Atlantic, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
How to Summon Spirits
The Spiritualist, a newspaper published from 1869-1882, is filled with tales of supernatural phenomena and tips for communicating with the dead.
Upsides of Horror, Census Trouble, and Unmanly Drinking
Well-researched stories from Aeon, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
What’s in the Box? The Art of Reliquaries
The cult of relics dates back to the second and third centuries, when Christian martyrs were often killed in ways that fragmented the body.
A Very JSTOR Daily Costume Guide
Get inspired for Halloween with these hand-curated historical images from JSTOR's Open Community Collections!
Bad Otters, Nuclear Fusion, and Mocking the South
Well-researched stories from Live Science, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.