JSTOR Daily celebrates Black History Month

Celebrating Black History Month

...Their Rising Voices”: Annotated Liz Tracey February 21, 2024 In 1960, an ad placed in the New York Times to defend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights...
Laura Secord warning Lieutenant James Fitzgibbon of an impending American attack, June 1813.

Laura Secord’s Walk

...to the (British) state is a higher calling, more important than her own safety or that of her wounded husband.” More to Explore The Treaty of Ghent: Annotated Liz Tracey...
Hand Holding a Pocket Watch

Keeping Time: A New Year’s Collection

...Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Liz Tracey December 14, 2024 Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city...
Vintage illustration of a Snowflakes, snow crystals

Winter Holidays

...by Charles Dickens Liz Tracey December 14, 2024 Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or...
The Fifteenth Amendment and its results, drawn by G.F. Kahl, 1870

The Fifteenth Amendment: Annotated

...incidents of deadly violence against those advocating for equal access to the ballot. More to Explore The Bill of Rights: Annotated Liz Tracey August 25, 2025 Proposed as a compromise...
Copy of the signature page of the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

“Declaration of Sentiments”: Annotated

...right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. More to Explore The Bill of Rights: Annotated Liz Tracey August...
Employees of Ottenheimer on strike for poor treatment

Labor Day: A Celebration of Working in America

...on strike against Ford. But was this a victory? “Now We Can Begin”: Annotated Liz Tracey August 25, 2023 To mark the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the...
Bill of Rights, 1791

The Bill of Rights: Annotated

The origin of the Bill of Rights was less a principled and honorable declaration of the founders’ commitment to fundamental liberties and more a compromise to get the states to...
Plaque of Marbury v. Madison at SCOTUS Building

Marbury v. Madison: Annotated

...Tracey January 22, 2024 Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution addresses citizenship rights, due process, and equal protection under the law. In the case of commissions,...
Facsimile of the original draft of the United States Declaration of Independence with images of the signers around the border.

Celebrating the Fourth of July

...related to the holiday and its history. Independence, Expanded “What to the Slave is The Fourth of July?”: Annotated Liz Tracey July 4, 2023 On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass...