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rfmcdonald ([personal profile] rfmcdonald) wrote2019-05-29 05:08 pm

[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: Blaschka glass, Priestley, crime, Humphrey, writing


  • JSTOR Daily looks at the remarkable glasswork of the Blaschka Invertebrate Collection.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the political radicalism of inventor Joseph Priestley.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at how Midwesterners responded to the 1930s craze of bank robberies with their own improvised systems in the face of police failures.

  • JSTOR Daily explains why Hubert Humphrey, despite his conventional strengths, was not going to be a winning Democratic candidate for President.

  • Austin Allen writes at JSTOR Daily about the complicated aesthetic and political radicalism of W.H. Auden, George Orwell, and James Baldwin.