How to Keep Track of Your Sources on JSTOR - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby The Editors·2d ago
Finding useful sources is only part of the research process—you also need to keep track of them. In this installment of Research Tips, we’ll explain how to find and record the details that identify...
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples and Cultures - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Jonathan Aprea·3d ago
The following stories, published over the last several years, honor specific Indigenous cultural practices and histories, dispel myths about Indigenous people in North and South America, and help...
Why King Arthur Still Shapes Pop Culture - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Angelica Frey·3d ago
The Matter of Britain has had an enduring influence on popular media, from films and documentaries to commercials and music videos.
Inventing Pad Thai - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Livia Gershon·5d ago
Pad Thai is among the most popular offerings at Thai restaurants all over the world, thanks to its distinctive yet approachable sweet-sour-savory flavor profile.
Why Mud Matters - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Matthew Wills·6d ago
“The world is mud-luscious” wrote e.e. cummings, and that wasn’t even the half of it. Life as we know it actually depends on mud.
The Folk Stories Behind the Philippines’ Superheroes - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby H.M.A. Leow·9d ago
Sporting a winged tiara and star-spangled bustier and gifted with superhuman strength and flight, Darna could be called the Filipino version of Wonder Woman.
Disgust, Desire, and Durian - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Jonathan Aprea·11d ago
In 2019, 550 students evacuated the University of Canberra’s library because of one fruit: durian.
Can We Recover a Worldview Lost to Colonialism? - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Livia Gershon·12d ago
How did people see the world before older systems were displaced by colonialism? This is a question faced by communities all over the world.
Beware of the Meeting Minutes - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Matthew Wills·13d ago
Talk-talk, said Winston Churchill (reputedly), is always better than war-war. But how is such diplomatic talk-talk recorded for posterity?
What Does an Earthquake Sound Like? - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Danny Robb·16d ago
In 1953, audio engineer Emory Cook released a unique album titled Out of this World. Upon playing it, listeners heard a reverberating boom and a narrator informing them: “This is a record of actual...
Teaching Students to Follow an Idea - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby The Editors·17d ago
I teach first-year academic writing courses in the University of Georgia English Department. Lately, I have been using JSTOR to help my students see research differently through an activity I call...
Building a Library in Wartime Paris - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby April White·18d ago
The Germans began firing on Paris again on the fifth of August 1918. Mary Josephine Booth was familiar with the sound of the air raid sirens by then.
Why Italian Fascists Loved Samurai - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Livia Gershon·19d ago
The right-wing movements that emerged around the world in the mid-twentieth century were both highly nationalistic and willing to work across borders.
Ancient Rome’s Complicated Border - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Matthew Wills·20d ago
We live in an age of hardened borders and militarized frontiers. Particularly since the September 11, 2001 attacks and then the Covid-19 pandemic, the supposedly borderless world of globalization...
The Women Who Sold Books Door to Door - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Livia Gershon·23d ago
In the second half of the nineteenth century, before the rise of public libraries, many people in remote parts of the United States got their hands on new books thanks to traveling salespeople.
Minimalist Fiction in Six Short Stories - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby The Editors·24d ago
Just like “love” in Raymond Carver’s iconic short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” “minimalism” is a contested term. Carver, the most famous minimalist, was averse to the label.
How the Railways Killed a Medieval Law - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Amelia Soth·25d ago
In 1829, hundreds of spinners and weavers had gathered at the Norfolk Arms Hotel when the floor collapsed under them. In the tumble, the crowd fell two stories, all the way into the cellar.
How Cambodian Pop Music Survived the Khmer Rouge - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby H.M.A. Leow·26d ago
Sometimes called Cambodia’s Elvis Presley, singer Sinn Sisamouth was a household name in the 1960s and remains an icon of Cambodian pop music today.
The Women Written Out of Mining History - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Matthew Wills·27d ago
A miner is typically envisioned as a brawny bro at the coal face or a crusty Forty-niner sourdough sluicing for gold. In other words, as masculine as you can get.
How to Refine Your JSTOR Search - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby The Editors·11 Sept 2026
With so much material available on JSTOR, finding the sources most relevant to a particular question can require more than a basic search.
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