Sara Ivry

Feb 19, 2025 | daily.jstor.org | Sara Ivry |Gerald Horne |Elaine Smith |Shelia Y. Flemming

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Born in West Virginia to parents who were sharecroppers, Ella P. Stewart was endowed with persistence and motivation in equal measure.

Nov 13, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Sara Ivry

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. On a late August day in 1955, Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi. A fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago, Till stopped with his cousins at Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market to buy chewing gum. There, Till whistled at the clerk, a brazen act that violated the norms of the Jim Crow South and so angered the clerk’s husband and brother-in-law that they killed the boy.

Jun 5, 2024 | unfetteredandalive.substack.com | Sara Ivry

I’m at an oral surgeon’s office right now in Bergen County New Jersey. My mother is here too—getting a tooth extracted. The doctor, a handsome fellow probably in his 30s, said he went to school “in Boston,” which I assumed to be Harvard, in that coy way Harvard people have of disclosing. Tell me you’re elite without telling me you’re elite. He meant Tufts. My mother told him how once she had a dentist whose wife was a piano teacher and was in fact her piano teacher. Once.

May 1, 2024 | about.jstor.org | Sara Ivry

In a way, it was a single image of a hand-painted letter opener that made Middlebury College librarian Rebekah Irwin truly grasp the extent of JSTOR’s reach. Back in 2020, she had heard about JSTOR’s shared collections program, a novel initiative to make it easy for schools to offer their holdings to students and scholars far beyond the confines of campus. She eagerly joined.

Apr 18, 2024 | unfetteredandalive.substack.com | Sara Ivry

Strava told me I ran a sub-five minute mile yesterday. Olympic level monster. The others were all in the 9:30 range, far more plausible. Apps makes us superheroes and liars. It was a seven-and-a-half mile midday run. I’ve fallen off the vigilance wagon regarding food lately, and regular exercise. Stress eating. And then forgoing lunch or dinner cause I’m by turns busy and then lazy and have no oomph to cook or even to slice an onion and cucumber for a salad.