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In the 1930s, the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, a coalition southern white women, fought against lynching, disproving the idea that extrajudicial killings were intended to protect them. bit.ly/3GjQyoZ

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Scholar Cynthia Wu proposes that Hisaye Yamamoto’s short story, “Seventeen Syllables,” can be read as “a show of support for the men in internment camps who actively resisted their draft into the US Army during World War II.” bit.ly/4jzhIXd

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Robert FitzRoy, best known as captain of the HMS Beagle when Charles Darwin was aboard, created one of the first systems of weather forecasting after a devastating storm in the Irish Sea. bit.ly/3Ga30rg

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Otto M was a university researcher who was both an enthusiastic Nazi and a bigamist, openly married to two women in the name of racial purity. bit.ly/3EnZ1qz

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Beatrice was one of Dante’s greatest poetic inspirations. He loved her so much that he romanticized her. The catch? Dante and Beatrice never actually got together. She was betrothed to someone else. This #NationalPoetryMonth, demystify Beatrice with @jstordaily.bsky.social: bit.ly/3E69lUg

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Think reptiles like crocodiles and iguanas are slow learners? It’s probably because you’re human. bit.ly/4iflLXC

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The creative works on which Hector Berlioz drew when writing his macabre and revolutionary Symphonie Fantastique were fantastic indeed. bit.ly/43R6Pvy

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Ray and Charles Eames worked together in many fields of art and design, but their house in Pacific Palisades remains the most celebrated example of their collaborative approach to work. bit.ly/4cBMZXl

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Why did so many plantation workers in Burma, Malaya, and Singapore rush to join the all-woman Rani of Jhansi regiment of the Indian National Army? bit.ly/42nynWZ

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In escaping the current news cycle…I wrote about Charles and Ray Eames this month for @jstordaily.bsky.social, including a bit about the lovely Eames House. #Eames #architecture #AcademicSky @jstor.bsky.social daily.jstor.org/a-close-part...

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When the US government targeted LGBTQ employees in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s, the most numerous victims were gay men. That’s because federal officials had trouble figuring out exactly what a lesbian and a lesbian relationship was. bit.ly/4j2ESWl

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Unicorns: the mythical “species” that won’t go extinct. bit.ly/4lnQ0OT

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After the American Civil War, the Freedmen’s Bureau served as federal courts for civil remedies in states whose judiciaries were still dominated by the elite of the defeated Confederacy. bit.ly/4i47mxi

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Lowell, Massachusetts, was famously home to textile mills that employed thousands of young girls in the nineteenth century. Where did they live? Who did their laundry? Who fed them and gave them somewhere to rest their heads at night? bit.ly/4cmq2Yb

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Joseph Conrad’s celebration of exploration of the Malay Archipelago is accompanied by his acknowledgment that such feats often go hand-in-hand with colonial-imperial oppression and exploitation. bit.ly/3XEJold

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As Macarty et al. v. Mandeville demonstrates, court records can function as a kind of archive for those without any other paper trail in history: free people of color and the enslaved. bit.ly/42dSZAX

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Before Emancipation and the end of the Civil War, three-quarters of US Army officers, from both the northern and southern states, used enslaved servants during their military careers, writes historian Yoav Hamdani. bit.ly/3Rr5d42

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With harvests dependent on the spring freeze-thaw cycle, the maple industry is seeking ways to mitigate damage wrought by a changing climate. In collaboration with the Plant Humanities Lab at Dumbarton Oaks: Tradition in Turmoil: Sugar Maple and Climate Change bit.ly/3QTStmr

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When Frank O’Hara died in 1966 at the age of forty, he left behind a vibrant community of writers in New York City—one he had already begun to shape and influence. bit.ly/4iGdZXX

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Introducing JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services—built with libraries and archives to support responsible, values-driven stewardship. Read more: about.jstor.org/blog/preserv...

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Few terms in American foreign policy discourse are as misunderstood or politically charged as “isolationism.” daily.jstor.org/what-is-isol...

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Mark your calendars for the second week after Easter: the first two days mark Hocktide, the medieval English festival of kidnapping and extortion. bit.ly/3RkTm7A

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The sport of competitive walking touched on social concerns such as debt and poverty, fitness and fame, but it also found support in the temperance movement. bit.ly/3Rk7fCT

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Forget about whether UFOs exist. Consider, instead, exactly why most people refuse to even entertain the prospect. bit.ly/4iHB7p1

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We were curious about a few things, so we decided to ask a professor. Specifically, we took our questions to Caitlin D. Wylie, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. Happy to report that she had the answers! bit.ly/4iIAWtF

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We’re sharing an annotated copy of the 1950 speech that propelled the Red Scare hunts from Washington, DC, into Hollywood, the armed forces, universities, and libraries. We’ve included links to peer-reviewed scholarship, all free to read and download. bit.ly/4j0ojtF

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From sociological concepts to interdisciplinary history, comic books can be incredible sources of learning that mirror the parallel of our society. Not sure where to start? Read a guide to using comics and graphic novels in the classroom on @jstordaily.bsky.social: bit.ly/41VRqY9

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In the late nineteenth century, Japan adopted Western-style vacation, but not everyone was on board with the new leisure practices. bit.ly/420zMCx

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In the 1950s, science in North Korea was presented in a way that fired children’s imaginations and encouraged youth to develop ideas that served the state. bit.ly/41W4VHh

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It was the marital choice of Prince Rainier III that propelled Monaco from a sunny backwater to a destination favored by A-listers and the paparazzi corps. bit.ly/4hu0edt

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Before the University of Virginia undertook a library renovation, a group of anthropology students set out to document years of graffiti left on shelves and carrels. Their work now makes up the Alderman Library Graffiti Collection. bit.ly/4kEyaah

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My wife recently learned that her Irish immigrant 2x great grandmother changed her name from Bridget to Delia (also my grandmother's name) and her family didn't know why. Then I remembered this great @jstordaily.bsky.social piece that explained the likely reason! daily.jstor.org/from-saint-t...

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Research funding from the EU is helping food chemist Christophe Courtin and a team of leading food experts from across Europe mobilize an army of home bakers in the interests of science—and our health. bit.ly/41ON9pw

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What’s next for the environmental justice movement? Activists may look to the past to determine how to move forward during times of austerity. bit.ly/4kIC8P6

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Many read the novels of George Orwell as pro-capitalist/anti-socialist propaganda, but his work has become a resource for all kinds of political arguments. bit.ly/4bL2fAY

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Only one nature lover has been ordained the “apostle of tree culture.” Get to know J. Russell Smith, the author of the seminal work, Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture. bit.ly/42fTSKf

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Exploring how doctors became a standard feature in the witness box in Scotland, historian Kelly-Ann Couzens tracks the process through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. bit.ly/4iYDof5

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Not surprisingly, parents, teachers, and family income affect educational and life outcomes for teenagers—but so does their best friend’s mother. bit.ly/41A7fn9

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Mixing his bureaucratic and spy work, Glen McPherson proved to be a poor custodian of the property taken from Japanese Canadians interned during World War II. bit.ly/41wTgi1

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In April 1845, a team of observers in Ireland pointed a giant telescope at Messier Object 51 and saw something astounding. bit.ly/4icH0dH #astronomy

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Have you written a sestina lately? bit.ly/4ivLRGw

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The fourteenth-century philosopher Tsongkhapa writes that being angry at someone who hits you with a stick makes no more sense than anger at the stick itself: “Just as the person impels the stick and so forth to do the harm, so hostility impels the person.” bit.ly/4bVlpUx

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In China’s “treaty ports,” where Western powers operated as colonial administrations in the nineteenth century, technical knowledge was exchanged among foreign missionaries, architects, engineers, and the exclusively Chinese construction crews. bit.ly/424jv0y

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Natural history is a vast and evolving field once you realize its boundaries extend far beyond Europe. Here’s a reading list to get you primed. bit.ly/3R6LPZV

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This month I’m writing about cultural villages and the legacy of apartheid. #AcademicSky #Architecture #SouthAfrica

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If federal chainsaws wind up coming for the Postal Service, what will that do to American political progress? bit.ly/422Qe6l

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When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's

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Originally viewed as a way to educate tourists on the multiple peoples and traditions of South Africa, cultural villages may soon be a thing of the past. bit.ly/4iwVTaA

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