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JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 6h

“The Sandinista Revolution, and the counterrevolution, was like a vortex that drew in every Nicaraguan family.” So says Mateo Jarquín in an interview about his book on the topic. The work is part of JSTOR’s Path to Open program. https://bit.ly/4mQww53

The Sandinista Revolution, Reconsidered - JSTOR Daily

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

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 8h

The relationship between the Nazis and the occult wasn’t black or white, but it definitely existed. https://bit.ly/47gode8

“Border Science” vs. Commercial Occultism: A Nazi Debate - JSTOR Daily

Occultism was widely embraced under the Third Reich, complicating Nazi attempts to wield it as a weapon against internationalism and other undesirable ideologies. Not all occult practices are alike: d...

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 22h

Do the Arts and Crafts and Slow Food movements have any lessons for democracy? https://bit.ly/3IL9COH

Arts and Crafts Democracy - JSTOR Daily

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

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 1d

Painters of the Hudson River School understood what was happening to North American forests in the nineteenth century, and they didn’t like it. https://bit.ly/42tM7Ag

The Art of Deforestation - JSTOR Daily

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

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 5d

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. https://bit.ly/4nz56lt

A Practical Machine: The Wright Brothers in Dayton - JSTOR Daily

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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JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 5d

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. https://bit.ly/4pYz6sE

Dissident Memoirs Across Rust-Iron Curtains - JSTOR Daily

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

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 6d

As one family’s story reveals, labor organizing and the development of a co-op for waste collection has improved conditions for precariously employed workers. https://bit.ly/3KEgded

Waste Pickers Unite! - JSTOR Daily

As one family’s story reveals, labor organizing and the development of a co-op for waste collection has improved conditions for precariously employed workers in India.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall, in her own words: https://bit.ly/3KuFUOl

Jane Goodall - JSTOR Daily

An intellectual powerhouse and dedicated conservationist, Goodall showed generations of humans how to engage with—and take care of—the natural world.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 7d

Who said print is dead? College newspapers defy that misconception. https://bit.ly/4mLw9IW

The Enduring Value of Student Newspapers - JSTOR Daily

More than curiosities, college papers are unique pedagogical tools that help undergraduates achieve media literacy.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 7d

Can insects communicate? In the middle of the twentieth century, scientists disagreed on whether bees could possess a “language” expressed through motion. https://bit.ly/46I5837

The Bee Dance Debate - JSTOR Daily

Can insects communicate? In the middle of the twentieth century, scientists disagreed on whether bees could possess a “language” expressed through motion.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 8d

Have you read Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”? Did he really argue that the poor should breed their children as food for the elites? https://bit.ly/46G4Zxe

What Was Behind Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal? - JSTOR Daily

Swift’s savage animosity towards the Irish Protestant elites is front and center in his biting (perhaps literally) critique of the landlord class.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 8d

In this week’s Suggested Readings: the medicine that will save us in space, an excerpt from *Summer of Fire and Blood*, and a flounder jubilee in Alabama. https://bit.ly/3ImwDY8

Space Medicine, Peasant Rebellion, and Lots of Fish - JSTOR Daily

Well-researched stories from Literary Hub, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 12d

Arthur C. Clarke’s undersea adventures are often overlooked, but his passion for scuba diving influenced his visions of the future. https://bit.ly/3Ko3zQv

Arthur C. Clarke's Scuba Adventures and Ocean Frontiers - JSTOR Daily

Clarke's interest in oceanic exploration in the 1950s was, like his undersea fiction, often neglected by an audience focused on the race for outer space.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 12d

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”—Seneca Falls, 1848 https://bit.ly/4nq21Eh

“Declaration of Sentiments”: Annotated - JSTOR Daily

The document that came out of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention extended the long-lived and hard-fought movement for women’s rights in the United States.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 14d

In this week’s Suggested Readings: the uncertain math behind Earth’s tipping points, the sterilamp gets an update, and printing out new body parts. https://bit.ly/4mxTfTg

Tipping Points, Cleaning the Air, and New Body Parts - JSTOR Daily

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

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 15d

Christine de Pizan used her pen to make a living at the French court, but even more pointedly, she used it to argue the value of educated women. https://bit.ly/3Vtldoi

Christine de Pizan: Europe’s First Professional Female Writer - JSTOR Daily

Christine used her pen to make a living at the French court, but even more pointedly, she used it to argue the value of educated women.

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JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 16d

The pastoral tradition is marked by idealized depictions of rural life and landscapes, presenting a simpler and more innocent way of living, often imagined for the benefit of urban audiences. https://bit.ly/3VrKoHV

10 Contemporary Pastoral Poems - JSTOR Daily

Poems that reflect and reinterpret the pastoral tradition, by Louise Glück, Alex Dimitrov, Rebecca Lehmann, Sam Sax, Natasha Trethewey, and more.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 16d

We’re back with a new edition of Ask a Professor! This month we interviewed Rebecca Lehmann, Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at Saint Mary’s College. https://bit.ly/46O5wON

Rebecca Lehmann on Breaking the Rules of Poetry - JSTOR Daily

An interview with writer and poet Rebecca Lehmann, who finds splendid things can follow when she stretches the rules of craft.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 20d

The algorithms that promise to predict wildfires and optimize energy grids are powered by servers that drink up rivers and belch out more carbon than cars. https://bit.ly/3KbHzYY

Is AI Good for the Planet? - JSTOR Daily

The algorithms that promise to predict wildfires and optimize energy grids are powered by servers that drink up rivers and belch out more carbon than cars.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 20d

No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. https://bit.ly/4ne8YZ0

Misunderstood Malthus - JSTOR Daily

The English thinker whose name is synonymous with doom and gloom has lessons for today.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 22d

Not all of the world’s legions of undead are nocturnal blood-predators with fangs. https://bit.ly/465JmY8

A Multiculturalism of the Undead - JSTOR Daily

Labeling the undead figures in non-European mythology, popular culture, and academia as “vampires” doesn’t make sense.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 22d

In this week’s Suggested Readings: Frank Matsura photographs the Okanogan, the meaning of “clean” gold, and finding the truth on Mars. https://bit.ly/4nFyNRD

Western Photos, Dirty Gold, and Life on Mars - JSTOR Daily

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Smithsonian Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 23d

To rifle through the Augusta Baker Papers is to behold the profound and lasting influence a single librarian can have on generations of children. Baker worked for decades in a New York Public Library branch, showing young readers worlds of possibility. https://bit.ly/3InPu4U

The Legendary Children's Librarian of Harlem - JSTOR Daily

Raised in a family of storytellers, Augusta Baker continued that tradition, imparting a love of books to readers of all ages.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 26d

Markers of both environmental change and periods of stability, trees have a lot to tell us about nature—but also about humanity. https://bit.ly/3K14u9u

What the Trees Are Telling Us - JSTOR Daily

Markers of both environmental change and periods of stability, trees have a lot to tell us about nature—but also about humanity.

JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 26d

There was a growing pantheon of heroes in the early twentieth century, as the new science of caves, speleology, emerged. But right-wing nationalism was also growing in Austria, and it changed the nature and purpose of speleology in central Europe. https://bit.ly/464hlQN

Underground Conquest: Cave Exploration and Nationalism - JSTOR Daily

As cave exploration became more popular and speleology developed as an academic discipline, cave explorers were drawn into a problematic European nationalism.