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JSTOR Daily interviews Head Archivist Angela Proctor at Southern University about John B. Cade's project to document and preserve the stories of formerly enslaved people. These pre-date those collected by the WPA in 1940. The handwritten transcripts of the interviews are available for free on JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/site/southern-university/opinions-regarding-slavery-slave-narratives/ Read more about this project here: https://daily.jstor.org/john-b-cades-project-to-document-the-stories-of-the-formerly-enslaved/ https://daily.jstor.org/angela-proctor-on-the-opinions-regarding-slavery-slave-narratives-collection/

Despite puns being found virtually everywhere, and not just in the English language, the socially acceptable response still seems to be overwhelmingly negative or at best ambivalent. Why? We talk to linguist Chi Luu, author of JSTOR Daily's Lingua Obscura column, and two scholars of puns Richard Lederer and Catherine Bates to find out. Let us know what you think! One fan did! two decades as a catholic and I never realized that Matthew 16:18 is a pun?? the @JSTOR_Daily podcast pilot is already taking me to school— Ellie Hill (@ellenohill) May 5, 2016