Dr. Sex and the Anarchist Sex Cookbook
Known for his runaway bestseller The Joy of Sex, Alex “Dr. Sex” Comfort was an anarchist and a pacifist who preferred love and sex to war crimes.
John Birmingham’s Discovery of the Blaze Star
John Birmingham discovered T Coronae Borealis in the narrow window when astronomy flourished in nineteenth-century Ireland.
The Ins and Outs of Architecture
Use this wide-ranging collection of stories about architecture, landscape, and design to fuel your imagination and your research interests.
JSTOR Daily’s Archives of Art History
Our editors have rounded up a collection of stories about art, artists, museums, and the way (and why) we study them.
The Singaporean State on a Styrofoam Plate
Hawker centers, a uniquely Singaporean institution, bring a form of street commerce practiced around the world under the authority of state regulators.
Snowball Earth
How scientists discovered that unique Scottish rocks record when Earth was first encased in ice.
How Pentecostalism Shaped Rock ’n’ Roll
Early rock and roll performers, including Little Richard and Elvis, were influenced by the sounds and tropes of Pentecostal worship services.
Raccoons in the Laboratory
The lab rat is now a symbol of science, but psychologists once believed that raccoons presented unique potential in the study of animal intelligence.
Genesis of the Modern American Right
During the Great Depression, financial elites translated European fascism into an American form that joined high capital with lower middle-class populism.
How a Rice Economy Toppled the Shogun
The co-existence of economies—one based on rice, the other on money—pushed the Tokugawa government toward financial misery and failure.