JSTOR Daily

The Fifteenth Amendment: Annotated - JSTOR Daily The brevity of the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution belies its impact on American voting rights.

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

Documenting a Disappearing Architecture - JSTOR Daily The Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, supported by an innovative mapping project, details threatened buildings across Lebanon.

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

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.

They’re big, they’re slow, and they can live up to 130 years. Also, they’re polka-dotted! https://bit.ly/43qcyaq

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.

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

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.

What can William Shakespeare teach us about the importance of due process? Turns out—quite a lot. https://bit.ly/3JfWxx1

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.

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

“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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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...

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

LEGO: Brick by Ideological Brick - JSTOR Daily Toys, even ones marketed as tools for the imagination, are never value neutral.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

Birding by Ear - JSTOR Daily How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques.

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, Reconsidered - JSTOR Daily A new book from historian Mateo Jarquín seeks to decouple Nicaragua’s unique socialist uprising from reductive Cold War clichés.

“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

“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...

The relationship between the Nazis and the occult wasn’t black or white, but it definitely existed. https://bit.ly/47gode8

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.

Do the Arts and Crafts and Slow Food movements have any lessons for democracy? https://bit.ly/3IL9COH

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Jane Goodall - JSTOR Daily An intellectual powerhouse and dedicated conservationist, Goodall showed generations of humans how to engage with—and take care of—the natural world.

Jane Goodall, in her own words: https://bit.ly/3KuFUOl

The Enduring Value of Student Newspapers - JSTOR Daily More than curiosities, college papers are unique pedagogical tools that help undergraduates achieve media literacy.

Who said print is dead? College newspapers defy that misconception. https://bit.ly/4mLw9IW

The Bee Dance Debate - JSTOR Daily Can insects communicate? In the middle of the twentieth century, scientists disagreed on whether bees could possess a “language” expressed through motion.

Can insects communicate? In the middle of the twentieth century, scientists disagreed on whether bees could possess a “language” expressed through motion. https://bit.ly/46I5837

What Was Behind Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal? - JSTOR Daily Swift’s savage animosity towards the Irish Protestant elites is front and center in his biting (perhaps literally) critique of the landlord class.

Have you read Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”? Did he really argue that the poor should breed their children as food for the elites? https://bit.ly/46G4Zxe

Space Medicine, Peasant Rebellion, and Lots of Fish - JSTOR Daily Well-researched stories from Literary Hub, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

In this week’s Suggested Readings: the medicine that will save us in space, an excerpt from *Summer of Fire and Blood*, and a flounder jubilee in Alabama. https://bit.ly/3ImwDY8