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Two dill cucumbers. Watercolour painting by a Chinese artist
Plant of the Month

Cucumber: The Plant That Moves More than You Think

Be it with its curling tendrils or because of its desirable properties, the cucumber is defined by motion: vertical, horizontal, geographical, and digital.

In the Limelight

Adah Menken

Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater

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

Reading Lists

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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.

The Where We Were

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.

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Celebrating Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women’s History Month with JSTOR Daily. We hope you’ll find the stories below a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.

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Politics & History

When Satirical Magazines Confront Real Crises

In Chile and Argentina, satirical publications used humor to expose political crises overlooked by the mainstream press.
At the Mass, 1872,, by Francesco Gioli
Education & Society

A Christian Case for Gossip

When silence allows harm to continue, warning others may become a difficult but necessary moral choice.

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In the Limelight

Adah Menken

Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater

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

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.

The Where We Were

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.

Roundup

JSTOR Daily Women's History Month Header

Celebrating Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women’s History Month with JSTOR Daily. We hope you’ll find the stories below a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.

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The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869
Politics & History

How The West Was Photographed

Railroad photography helped sell an “empty” American West—carefully framing out the people already living there.
Two dill cucumbers. Watercolour painting by a Chinese artist
Plant of the Month

Cucumber: The Plant That Moves More than You Think

Be it with its curling tendrils or because of its desirable properties, the cucumber is defined by motion: vertical, horizontal, geographical, and digital.
Mughal ruler Humayun defeating the Afghans before reconquering India, folio from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl, ca. 1590
Politics & History

How Horses Shaped the Mughal Empire

The quest for powerful horses reshaped trade and diplomacy across early modern South Asia.

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JSTOR Collections

Building Brasília

A twentieth-century experiment in urban planning promised progress—but carried immense financial and human costs.
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Health

The Missing Sense in Modern Medicine

Researchers argue routine smell testing could detect neurodegenerative disease and other health risks years earlier than current exams.
Art & Art History

Wayne Thiebaud’s Sweet Take on American Art

The beloved American painter rejected attempts to categorize his work as a Pop Art as he experimented with texture, light, and nostalgia.
Politics & History

When Mao’s Mango Mania Took Over China

A fleeting cult built around a mango exposes the logic, and illogic, of Mao’s personality cult.

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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

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.

The Space Race’s Forgotten Theme Park

Preserved documents and photographs trace the rise and fall of an ambitious space-themed park born of 1960s Space Race optimism.
The morning after the Battle of Waterloo on June 19, 1815, by John Heaviside Clark

Souvenir Hunting on the Battlefield of Waterloo

At Waterloo, a site of immense bloodshed, tourists quickly turned the aftermath of war into collectibles.

Collections on JSTOR

Building Brasília

A twentieth-century experiment in urban planning promised progress—but carried immense financial and human costs.

H. H. Richardson and the Making of an American Romanesque

Historical photographs help trace the emergence of Richardsonian Romanesque and its lasting influence on American architecture.
Raíces Garden. N 2nd St

Greening Philly’s Neglected Lots

Spearheaded by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, an urban beautification program transformed neighborhoods in the city of brotherly love.

Reading Lists

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.
A view of the landscape seen along the Golden Gate Trail in the Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.

The Promise and Problems of Public Lands: A Reading List

Discover key research on U.S. public lands through scholarly works exploring conservation, Indigenous knowledge, and public policy.
Panoramic of 14th street and Union Square. Taken August 25, 2017 in New York.

Perspectives on Public Space: A Reading List

This list introduces some of the main debates about public space, from park politics to political protest, public expressions of sexuality to safety and security.

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Tonka beans

Tonka Bean: The Tale of a Contested Commodity

The rise and fall of the sweet-smelling seeds of Dipteryx odorata stands in stark contrast to the tree’s lasting presence in global markets.
An old oyster bed now lying exposed on a beach in South Carolina. The oysters are no longer alive, but many shells remain in their original position.

Shucking the Past: Can Oysters Thrive Again?

Dredging and pollution devastated the once-bountiful reefs. Careful science may help bring them back.
An image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 18, 2012.

“Space Tornadoes” Could Cause Geomagnetic Storms

But these phenomena, spun off ejections from the Sun, aren’t easy to study.

Unlike already established symbols such as the peony, peach, or pomegranate, the mango had no preexisting meaning in China and, importantly, no association with emperors or divinity.

When Mao’s Mango Mania Took Over China

Annotations

The Fifteenth Amendment and its results, drawn by G.F. Kahl, 1870

The Fifteenth Amendment: Annotated

The brevity of the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution belies its impact on American voting rights.
Copy of the signature page of the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

“Declaration of Sentiments”: Annotated

The document that came out of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention extended the long-lived and hard-fought movement for women’s rights in the United States.
Bill of Rights, 1791

The Bill of Rights: Annotated

Proposed as a compromise to ensure the ratification of the new US Constitution, the Bill of Rights has become a critical protector of civil liberties.

Teaching Resources

JSTOR Daily celebrates Black History Month

Celebrating Black History Month

JSTOR Daily editors pick their favorite stories for Black History Month.
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Keeping Time: A New Year’s Collection

A selection of stories that chronicle our complicated notions of time.
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.

Reveal Digital Collections

Frank O'Hara

12 Poems by Frank O’Hara

Plus his manifesto on Personism and writings about O’Hara by Ted Berrigan, Joseph LeSueur, and Joe Brainard.
Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36531311

Toledo’s Most Singular Pharmacist

The Ella P. Stewart Scrapbooks offer insight into the life and legacy of a pioneering Black woman who broke color barriers and helped birth the fight for civil rights.

Feminist Bookstore News by the Numbers

Now part of Reveal Digital, Feminist Bookstore News was a vital source of information (and gossip) amid a flourishing in publishing fifty years ago.

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JSTOR Daily celebrates Black History Month

Celebrating Black History Month

JSTOR Daily editors pick their favorite stories for Black History Month.
Hand Holding a Pocket Watch

Keeping Time: A New Year’s Collection

A selection of stories that chronicle our complicated notions of time.
Vintage illustration of a Snowflakes, snow crystals

Winter Holidays

Celebrate with some seasonal scholarship from JSTOR Daily for the winter holidays.

Natural Science

An illustration of a fossilized claw from Megalonyx Jeffersonii, a giant ground sloth, found in a cave in Greenbriar County, West Virginia.

Jefferson’s Fossils

What can Thomas Jefferson’s mistaken ideas about fossils tell us about science and belief in the early United States?
An illustration of a forest consumed by fire as animals flee.

The Fires This Time

To understand current mass burning events better, scientists are turning to the phenomenon known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly.
A photograph of spiral nebula M 51 taken by the Lick observatory, 1900

The Hidden Aesthetics of Early Astrophotography

Behind the transformative star photographs of the 1880s lay a complex collaboration between astronomers and engravers.

Sustainability & The Environment

John Steinbeck, 1935.

Returning to Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez

A literary classic doubles as data, helping scientists trace decades of ecological change in the Gulf of California.
Source: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/36169/gathering-wild-rice-seth-eastman

Wild Rice and the Rights of Nature

A groundbreaking lawsuit asks whether wild rice, or manoomin, can hold legal rights under tribal law and the growing rights of nature movement.
A series of images in color block colors, including a map, a photo of a group of people digging, and an architectural mockup of a park landscape

Designing for Community and Climate in Los Angeles

How can we design public spaces that help people thrive and connect—with each other and with their environment?