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

...to Explore The Bill of Rights: Annotated Liz Tracey August 25, 2025 Proposed as a compromise to ensure the ratification of the new US Constitution, the Bill of Rights has...
Copy of the signature page of the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

“Declaration of Sentiments”: Annotated

...conscience and to her God. More to Explore The Bill of Rights: Annotated Liz Tracey August 25, 2025 Proposed as a compromise to ensure the ratification of the new US...
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

The 1803 US Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison is often the first case that appears in constitutional law casebooks. This makes sense, as it established the court’s power of...
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama (2nd R) stands with Congressman Jerrold Nadler at a dedication ceremony officially designating the Stonewall Inn as a national monument to gay rights on June 27, 2016 in New York City.

Stonewall National Monument Declaration: Annotated

...in its role in energizing a broader community to demand equal rights. More to Explore Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated Liz Tracey April 19, 2024 Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the...