Portraits from the Taiwan shishō meikan

Power Posing in the Taiwan Photo Studio

As photography became more popular in occupied Taiwan, the camera subtly captured the shifting boundaries between Japanese colonizers and their Taiwanese subjects.
Photograph: Two people dancing, photographed by David Schwartz, Albright College. Part of Albright College's Nicaragua Revolution: David Schwartz Collection

Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.20472290

Eight Collections Perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month

Freely available images and other primary source materials from the JSTOR Collections.
Ice formations in a cave in Werfen, Austria, 1925

Underground Conquest: Cave Exploration and Nationalism

As cave exploration became more popular and speleology developed as an academic discipline, cave explorers were drawn into a problematic European nationalism.
White Pines in Cathedral Woods, Intervale, White Mountains, N. H

What the Trees Are Telling Us

Markers of both environmental change and periods of stability, trees have a lot to tell us about nature—but also about humanity.
An illustration from Mansfield Park depicting Maria Bertram and Henry Crawford rehearsing Lovers' Vows

The Scandalous Play in Mansfield Park

Jane Austen uses Elizabeth Inchbald’s Lovers’ Vows to explore the social boundaries, both public and private, of Regency England.
Three species of pollen grains

Using Pollen To Make Paper, Sponges, and More

Reengineered, the powdery stuff could become a range of eco-friendly objects.
People standing around a shopping cart with Trump's head inside

From Neoliberalism to Trumpism

The neoliberal politics that developed in the 1970s created financial instability and fragmented cultural markets, helping to pave the way for Trumpism.
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Urgent Notification: It’s Time to Play Cross Reference

This month’s crossword puzzle kindly requests your attention.
Thomas Paine

Eighteenth-Century Takes on Basic Income

Universal basic income has gotten some serious twenty-first-century play, but the idea is hardly new.
Newspaper clipping about the Haymarket Riot from Harpers Weekly, 1887

Demonizing Immigrants in the 1880s

American newspapers portrayed members of immigrant groups as potential anarchists, linking the ideology to other anxieties and stereotypes about foreigners.