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10/10/2025

With scholarship on Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, resistance, and decolonization, our newest reading list honors Native sovereignty and self-determination. https://bit.ly/3VUZgif

With scholarship on Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, resistance, and decolonization, this list honors Native sovereignty and self-determination.

09/10/2025

To mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’ve gathered some of our best stories that honor specific cultural practices and histories, dispel myths, and help us understand the systemic racism that has contributed to the suppression of Native American cultures.

More and more states are choosing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day.

09/10/2025

One of the most rewarding ways to identify birds is to listen to them and learn to recognize their songs. An ornithologist and educator is here to tell you how.

How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques.

08/10/2025

Na**sm and various branches of occultism became noticeably intertwined almost immediately after the founding of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party in 1919.

Occultism was widely embraced under the Third Reich, complicating N**i attempts to wield it as a weapon against internationalism and other undesirable ideologies. Not all occult practices are alike: discover how occult beliefs were alternately celebrated, tolerated, and suppressed by the N**i regime

08/10/2025

Jeanne Kirkpatrick once said Central America was never the “most important area in the world” for the US, even if it had been touted as such during the Cold War. What impact did that original conceit have on the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua? Mateo Jarquín examines this question in a new book and speaks with JSTOR Daily about his findings.

A new book from historian Mateo Jarquín seeks to decouple Nicaragua’s unique socialist uprising from reductive Cold War clichés.

07/10/2025

Jasper Cropsey’s 1865 painting The Valley of Wyoming shows a pastoral landscape of grazing cows and lounging people—something that only a person knowledgeable about the region would recognize as a former forest rather than a natural grassland.

Landscape paintings show how quickly American forests changed in the early nineteenth century—and the mixed feelings people had about that change.

07/10/2025

Horses have been shaping human history for thousands of years, and humans have been shaping horses for just as long. A new study of equine DNA helps uncover just how that worked. The genetics of getting up on the horse’s back and more in this week’s Suggested Readings:

Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

06/10/2025

Advocates of “good design” in the late nineteenth century and “good food” in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries thought that taking pleasure in creating and consuming should be one and the same.

The Arts and Crafts and Slow Food movements twinned pleasure and democracy though supporters of these artisanal crusades developed a reputation for elitism.

05/10/2025

Immediately after the American Civil War, most believed that the war was justly won by the North fighting a South determined to hold onto slavery. But as the years passed, a “culture of reconciliation” promoted Jim Crow laws and the denial of civil rights to Black Americans.

The victors of the American Civil War failed to write their story into the history books, leaving a gap for the mythologizing of the Confederacy.

04/10/2025

For many Americans, yoga is simply another kind of workout. Yet many yoga instructors give directions that veer in a different direction, raising questions about how secular yoga practitioners should relate to a practice based in a worldview they don’t share.

How should Westerners studying modern postural yoga think about the religious and medical systems in which it developed?

03/10/2025

Soviet dissidents, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vladimir Bukovsky, paid dearly for their opinions, losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.

Soviet dissident memoirs, like their authors, had to cross the Iron Curtain—an iron curtain of meaning and interpretation.

03/10/2025

Think Orville and Wilbur were only about bicycles and flying machines? Turns out they were also key players in prairie conservation. I mean, it was an accident, but still.

Orville and Wilbur Wright wanted to create a practical machine—not a novelty or a gimmick—and they accomplished that at Ohio’s Huffman Prairie on October 5, 1905.

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