“Tell Me about a Complicated Man”: A Homer Reading List
One could argue that a single man created the first creative franchise, which then spawned the first reboots, spin-offs, sequels, and prequels long before the birth of cinema, the novel,...
“A Time To Speak”: Annotated
Sixty years ago today, the city of Birmingham, Alabama, reeled from the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, the latest attack in a period of terrorism against the Black...
Labor Day: A Celebration of Working in America
...their famous husbands to produce world-renowned research. “Now We Can Begin”: Annotated Liz Tracey August 25, 2023 To mark the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution,...
“Now We Can Begin”: Annotated
Crystal Eastman, described as “the most neglected feminist leader of the twentieth century” (at least among those lost or faded from history), was a leader in multiple political and social...
Dave the Potter’s Mark on History
...where, writes Liz Tracey for JSTOR Daily, “mounds of shells tossed from consumed mollusks are found, sometimes with pottery, clothing, and plants mixed in.” Before the Civil War, “the American...
“What to the Slave is The Fourth of July?”: Annotated
On Monday, July 5 1852 Frederick Douglass gave a speech to the “Ladies of the Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society,” which arguably became his most famous public oration. Rather than a...
Celebrating the Fourth of July
...the US Constitution The Declaration of Independence: Annotated Liz Tracey December 9, 2021 Related links to free scholarly context on JSTOR for the foundational document in American government. The Native...
Declaration of Conscience: Annotated
On the first day of June 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine, gave a speech on the floor of the Senate that sounded the first shot in...
Reading for LGBTQ+ Pride Month
...with each story. Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day Speech: Annotated Liz Tracey June 13, 2022 Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the...
90 Years On: The Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Science
Ninety years ago this month, the Institute for Sexual Science (ISS) in Berlin was vandalized and looted, its library burned, in an early organized spectacle of the power of the...