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Did Allied Bombs Destroy German Morale? - JSTOR Daily
With men mostly absent, women and children dominated a small city called Darmstadt. Then “fire night” came.
The Hidden History of Biology Textbooks - JSTOR Daily
American biology textbooks supposedly became less scientific after the Scopes trial. One scholar argues that this isn’t the whole story.
The Surprisingly Egalitarian Love Lives of Dart-Inseminating Garden Snails | JSTOR Daily
Mating snails shoot each other with sperm barbs—but very nicely.
How Homeschooling Evolved from Subversive to Mainstream | JSTOR Daily
The pandemic helped establish homeschooling as a fixture among educational options in the US. But it’s been around—and gaining in popularity—for a while.
The Rise of Hollywood’s “Extra Girls” | JSTOR Daily
They didn’t have to do anything besides stand around and look pretty. At least, that was the myth the studios wanted the public to believe.
Who Looks Like a Professor? | JSTOR Daily
Movie portrayals of faculty may influence the ideas about professors that students bring to the first day of class.
Selfish Genes, Viking Women, and Glowing Oceans | JSTOR Daily
Well-researched stories from Aeon, CrimeReads, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Joe Magarac, a Boss’s Idea of a Folk Hero? | JSTOR Daily
The Paul Bunyan of the steel industry never went on strike. He was too tied up working the twenty-four-hour shifts that unions were fighting.
How Black Americans Fought for Literacy | JSTOR Daily
From the moment US Army troops arrived in the South, newly freed people sought ways to gain education—particularly to learn to read and write.
To Study Today’s Ecosystems, Look to History | JSTOR Daily
An unlikely source of data about the decline of trout in modern Spain: a book from the 1850s.