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  • 3 days ago | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon

    The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Between 1850 and 1930, a million people from Quebec were pushed by economic circumstances to cross the border into the United States. Although most ended up in industrializing cities, many had experience in logging and other backwoods labor that gave them valuable skills they could put to use in the northeastern states. As historian Jason L.

  • 5 days ago | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon

    The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Mr. Whiskers’ Elusive Family (Mongabay)by Petro KotzéThe ancestor of the modern domestic cat, the Afro-Asiatic wildcat, prowls across a large part of the world. But scientists know surprisingly little about them or how their species gave rise to man’s second-best friend.

  • 1 week ago | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon

    The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The Journal of Humanities is part of the African Journals Initiative, a collaboration between JSTOR, Pluto Journals, and the African Book Collective. Learn more. The term existentialism may call to mind smoke-filled French coffee houses and over-educated intellectuals.

  • 1 week ago | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon

    The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The Colonial History of Vanilla (Smithsonian Magazine)by Jay CheshesVanilla and its culinary uses originate in Mexico, but the flavor’s spread around the world owes a great deal to the island of Réunion and a botanical technique invented by an enslaved child. Hannah Arendt and the Fight for the Truth (Public Books)by John PlotzHannah Arendt famously wrote about totalitarianism.

  • 2 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon

    The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. For hundreds of years, the aesthetics of the Ottoman Empire fascinated Europeans. As art historian Deborah Howard writes, that included taking inspiration for buildings in Istanbul, from churches to bathhouses, to create cosmopolitan spaces back home.

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30 Oct 23

One scholar even decried the practice of baking hot-cross buns on Good Friday for good luck, writing that it was “undoubtedly a relic of superstition and ought to be abolished.” (post based on work by @DrThomasWaters) https://t.co/wCtMOEjKRk