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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.

4 days ago | daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In a reformist push to reduce the widespread use of the death penalty in the new Commonwealth of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson drafted “A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments in Cases Heretofore Capital” in 1779. This was Bill 64 of 126 bills put together by Jefferson and the Committee of Revisors to rationalize law after the colonial period.

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.

6 days ago | daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In February 1960, France became the fourth nation after the United States, the USSR, and the United Kingdom to become a nuclear power. They did this by detonating a 70- kiloton atomic bomb at Reggane in the Sahara Desert.

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.