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Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment is short, a mere fifty words including the section headings, but written with a large intended effect. https://bit.ly/4npLAaj
The Fifteenth Amendment: Annotated - JSTOR Daily
The brevity of the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution belies its impact on American voting rights.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment is short, a mere fifty words including the section headings, but written with a large intended effect. https://bit.ly/4npLAaj
The Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, supported by an innovative mapping project, details threatened buildings across Lebanon. https://bit.ly/4nnB5nE
Documenting a Disappearing Architecture - JSTOR Daily
The Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, supported by an innovative mapping project, details threatened buildings across Lebanon.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, supported by an innovative mapping project, details threatened buildings across Lebanon. https://bit.ly/4nnB5nE
It has to be said: whale sharks aren’t your typical shark. https://bit.ly/42RQsh0
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October 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It has to be said: whale sharks aren’t your typical shark. https://bit.ly/42RQsh0
They’re big, they’re slow, and they can live up to 130 years. Also, they’re polka-dotted! https://bit.ly/43qcyaq
A Whale of a Shark - JSTOR Daily
The largest fish, Rhincodon typus, is obviously not a whale, but it’s also unusual for a shark.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
They’re big, they’re slow, and they can live up to 130 years. Also, they’re polka-dotted! https://bit.ly/43qcyaq
By exposing his skin on a sunny day, King Edward VIII offered a reminder that a monarch is, after all, nothing but a person. https://bit.ly/3WjWGCC
Topless King in Pedal Canoe! - JSTOR Daily
By exposing his skin on a sunny day, King Edward VIII offered a reminder that a monarch is, after all, nothing but a person.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
By exposing his skin on a sunny day, King Edward VIII offered a reminder that a monarch is, after all, nothing but a person. https://bit.ly/3WjWGCC
What can William Shakespeare teach us about the importance of due process? Turns out—quite a lot. https://bit.ly/3JfWxx1
The Lessons of Due Process in Julius Caesar - JSTOR Daily
Shakespeare's tragedy offers a telling parable about the administration of justice--and rife mishandling thereof--in our day.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
What can William Shakespeare teach us about the importance of due process? Turns out—quite a lot. https://bit.ly/3JfWxx1
One thing that stood in the way of a vision of Los Angeles as the “Eden of the Saxon Homeseeker” was the figure of the unemployed tramp. https://bit.ly/4hpVYgI
Los Angeles’s War on Tramps - JSTOR Daily
In the 1880s, Los Angeles began a large-scale project of incarcerating unemployed men whom they viewed as a threat to the vigor of white America.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
One thing that stood in the way of a vision of Los Angeles as the “Eden of the Saxon Homeseeker” was the figure of the unemployed tramp. https://bit.ly/4hpVYgI
When Charles Darwin joined the crew of the Beagle in 1832, one of their first stops was the island of St. Jago in Cape Verde. There, he confronted one of his first major scientific puzzles. https://bit.ly/3WjDAwl
“Mad About Geology”: Charles Darwin’s Origin Story - JSTOR Daily
At university and in the field, Darwin trained his scientific thinking as would a geologist, seeking causal explanations for observed natural phenomena.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
When Charles Darwin joined the crew of the Beagle in 1832, one of their first stops was the island of St. Jago in Cape Verde. There, he confronted one of his first major scientific puzzles. https://bit.ly/3WjDAwl
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, was actually unusual for its welcoming of Chinese immigrants, no small achievement in the often violently racist response to Asian immigrants to North America. Why isn’t this history more celebrated? https://bit.ly/47ciTaE
Under Moose Jaw: Tourism Or History? - JSTOR Daily
Moose Javians’ confidence and reputation are rooted in a unique, if fanciful, story, developed after the economic downturn of the 1980s and 1990s.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, was actually unusual for its welcoming of Chinese immigrants, no small achievement in the often violently racist response to Asian immigrants to North America. Why isn’t this history more celebrated? https://bit.ly/47ciTaE
Being bilingual is an asset in restaurant work. But being *bicultural* (able to share slang and cultural references with coworkers in both front and back of house) may be even more critical. https://bit.ly/4hm0TPQ
A House Divided—Between Front and Back - JSTOR Daily
In many restaurants, front and back of house workers are divided by language and culture in ways that affect the careers of both groups.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Being bilingual is an asset in restaurant work. But being *bicultural* (able to share slang and cultural references with coworkers in both front and back of house) may be even more critical. https://bit.ly/4hm0TPQ
Often considered the first Canadian novel, *The History of Emily Montague* revealed its author’s true feelings about colonial Quebec. https://bit.ly/4hkNJm6
The First Canadian Novel - JSTOR Daily
Often considered the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague revealed its author’s true feelings about colonial Quebec.
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October 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Often considered the first Canadian novel, *The History of Emily Montague* revealed its author’s true feelings about colonial Quebec. https://bit.ly/4hkNJm6
The division and envy between old money and newly acquired wealth is a tale as old as America itself. So it’s not surprising that it’s a recurring theme of life on New York’s Long Island. https://bit.ly/4774nSV
The Long and Winding Island - JSTOR Daily
New York’s Long Island has long served as a backdrop for social and political conflicts between the newly arrived and the established residents.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The division and envy between old money and newly acquired wealth is a tale as old as America itself. So it’s not surprising that it’s a recurring theme of life on New York’s Long Island. https://bit.ly/4774nSV
In times of uncertainty, particularly under the growing threat of totalitarianism, utopian fantasies provide a way to reflect on the situation and, potentially, outline a path toward a positive outcome. https://bit.ly/48BEoEi
Weimar Operas and Visions of Utopia - JSTOR Daily
Kurt Weill and his musical collaborators used utopian fantasies to explore the social and political conditions of a fading Weimar Republic. In the twilight of the Weimar era, Der Silbersee and The Ris...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In times of uncertainty, particularly under the growing threat of totalitarianism, utopian fantasies provide a way to reflect on the situation and, potentially, outline a path toward a positive outcome. https://bit.ly/48BEoEi
The case of LEGO suggests that “the same ideologies that shape the most obviously sexist and racist aspects of children’s culture can equally cloak themselves in claims of educative value and universality,” writes design historian Colin Fanning. https://bit.ly/4qda74W
LEGO: Brick by Ideological Brick - JSTOR Daily
Toys, even ones marketed as tools for the imagination, are never value neutral.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The case of LEGO suggests that “the same ideologies that shape the most obviously sexist and racist aspects of children’s culture can equally cloak themselves in claims of educative value and universality,” writes design historian Colin Fanning. https://bit.ly/4qda74W
Fan fiction is as old as the Garden of Eden. Need proof? Earle Havens talks about the Apocalypse of Adam and other riveting, curious historical literary forgeries and hoaxes. https://bit.ly/46Spmsj
Enchanting Imposters - JSTOR Daily
Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery shows that humans have been creating fan fiction and fake news for millennia.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Fan fiction is as old as the Garden of Eden. Need proof? Earle Havens talks about the Apocalypse of Adam and other riveting, curious historical literary forgeries and hoaxes. https://bit.ly/46Spmsj
In this week’s Suggested Readings: watery farming in Mexico, inventing the first non-opioid painkiller, and a new form of molecular architecture. https://bit.ly/3KJjoS7
Old Wet Farms, New Pain Meds, and New Chemistry - JSTOR Daily
Well-researched stories from Mongabay, Ars Technica, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
In this week’s Suggested Readings: watery farming in Mexico, inventing the first non-opioid painkiller, and a new form of molecular architecture. https://bit.ly/3KJjoS7
Piet Mondrian, co-founder of De Stijl, argued that the art movement wasn’t ready for architecture. Theo van Doesburg and others believed it was. Who was right? https://bit.ly/3JenVvh
Building De Stijl Style - JSTOR Daily
Piet Mondrian, co-founder of De Stijl, argued that the art movement wasn’t ready for architecture. Theo van Doesburg and others believed it was. Who was right?
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October 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Piet Mondrian, co-founder of De Stijl, argued that the art movement wasn’t ready for architecture. Theo van Doesburg and others believed it was. Who was right? https://bit.ly/3JenVvh
One of the most rewarding ways to identify birds is to listen to them and learn to recognize their songs. An ornithologist and educator is here to tell you how. https://bit.ly/48mZV3p
Birding by Ear - JSTOR Daily
How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
One of the most rewarding ways to identify birds is to listen to them and learn to recognize their songs. An ornithologist and educator is here to tell you how. https://bit.ly/48mZV3p
“The Sandinista Revolution, and the counterrevolution, was like a vortex that drew in every Nicaraguan family.” So says Mateo Jarquín in an interview about his book on the topic. The work is part of JSTOR’s Path to Open program. https://bit.ly/4mQww53
The Sandinista Revolution, Reconsidered - JSTOR Daily
A new book from historian Mateo Jarquín seeks to decouple Nicaragua’s unique socialist uprising from reductive Cold War clichés.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“The Sandinista Revolution, and the counterrevolution, was like a vortex that drew in every Nicaraguan family.” So says Mateo Jarquín in an interview about his book on the topic. The work is part of JSTOR’s Path to Open program. https://bit.ly/4mQww53
The relationship between the Nazis and the occult wasn’t black or white, but it definitely existed. https://bit.ly/47gode8
“Border Science” vs. Commercial Occultism: A Nazi Debate - JSTOR Daily
Occultism was widely embraced under the Third Reich, complicating Nazi attempts to wield it as a weapon against internationalism and other undesirable ideologies. Not all occult practices are alike: d...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The relationship between the Nazis and the occult wasn’t black or white, but it definitely existed. https://bit.ly/47gode8
Do the Arts and Crafts and Slow Food movements have any lessons for democracy? https://bit.ly/3IL9COH
Arts and Crafts Democracy - JSTOR Daily
The Arts and Crafts and Slow Food movements twinned pleasure and democracy though supporters of these artisanal crusades developed a reputation for elitism.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Do the Arts and Crafts and Slow Food movements have any lessons for democracy? https://bit.ly/3IL9COH
Painters of the Hudson River School understood what was happening to North American forests in the nineteenth century, and they didn’t like it. https://bit.ly/42tM7Ag
The Art of Deforestation - JSTOR Daily
Landscape paintings show how quickly American forests changed in the early nineteenth century—and the mixed feelings people had about that change.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Painters of the Hudson River School understood what was happening to North American forests in the nineteenth century, and they didn’t like it. https://bit.ly/42tM7Ag
Think Orville and Wilbur were only about bicycles and flying machines? Turns out they were also key players in prairie conservation. I mean, it was an accident, but still. https://bit.ly/4nz56lt
A Practical Machine: The Wright Brothers in Dayton - JSTOR Daily
Orville and Wilbur Wright wanted to create a practical machine—not a novelty or a gimmick—and they accomplished that at Ohio’s Huffman Prairie on October 5, 1905.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Think Orville and Wilbur were only about bicycles and flying machines? Turns out they were also key players in prairie conservation. I mean, it was an accident, but still. https://bit.ly/4nz56lt
Soviet dissidents, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vladimir Bukovsky, paid dearly for their opinions, losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile. https://bit.ly/4pYz6sE
Dissident Memoirs Across Rust-Iron Curtains - JSTOR Daily
Soviet dissident memoirs, like their authors, had to cross the Iron Curtain—an iron curtain of meaning and interpretation.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Soviet dissidents, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vladimir Bukovsky, paid dearly for their opinions, losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile. https://bit.ly/4pYz6sE
As one family’s story reveals, labor organizing and the development of a co-op for waste collection has improved conditions for precariously employed workers. https://bit.ly/3KEgded
Waste Pickers Unite! - JSTOR Daily
As one family’s story reveals, labor organizing and the development of a co-op for waste collection has improved conditions for precariously employed workers in India.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
As one family’s story reveals, labor organizing and the development of a co-op for waste collection has improved conditions for precariously employed workers. https://bit.ly/3KEgded