Teaching and Learning Resources from JSTOR Daily
...to peer-reviewed scholarship that helps explain the documents’ historical context and impact. The Bill of Rights: Annotated Liz Tracey August 25, 2025 Proposed as a compromise to ensure the ratification...
“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
...regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, where, writes Liz Tracey for JSTOR Daily, “mounds of shells tossed from consumed mollusks are found, sometimes with pottery, clothing, and plants mixed...
“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...
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...
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...
The Sonic Triumph of American Graffiti
...American Graffiti. “Worldizing,” says Liz Greene, who writes about and teaches film sound, is “a sound recorded or created in studio or elsewhere that is then treated so that it...
Brown v. Board of Education: Annotated
The US Supreme Court’s decision in the case known colloquially as Brown v. Board of Education found that the “[t]he ‘separate but equal’ doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163...
The Paris Agreement: Annotated
The Paris Agreement on Climate was adopted in December 2015 at the twenty-first meeting of the Committee of the Parties (COP21), as part of a continuing international effort to mitigate...
“Zombie” Anthony Comstock Walks Among US (Again)
There are Friday news dumps, and then there are days like April 7, 2023, when, in less than an hour, two contradictory US District Court decisions on the use of...