A selection of images from the Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, housed at Notre Dame University-Louaize

Documenting a Disappearing Architecture

The Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, supported by an innovative mapping project, details threatened buildings across Lebanon.
The Fifteenth Amendment and its results, drawn by G.F. Kahl, 1870

The Fifteenth Amendment: Annotated

The brevity of the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution belies its impact on American voting rights.
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus), Isla Mujeres, Cancun, Mexico

A Whale of a Shark

The largest fish, Rhincodon typus, is obviously not a whale, but it’s also unusual for a shark.
An image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 18, 2012.

“Space Tornadoes” Could Cause Geomagnetic Storms

But these phenomena, spun off ejections from the Sun, aren’t easy to study.
Engraved scene from the works of William Shakespeare; the death of Caesar in 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar', 1599.

The Lessons of Due Process in Julius Caesar

Shakespeare's tragedy offers a telling parable about the administration of justice—and rife mishandling thereof—in our day.
King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson on holiday in Yugoslavia, 1936

Topless King in Pedal Canoe!

By exposing his skin on a sunny day, King Edward VIII offered a reminder that a monarch is, after all, nothing but a person.
Arctic wolf

Wolves, Personal Choices, and Chemtrails

Well-researched stories from Sequencer, KFF Health News, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Charles Darwin

“Mad About Geology”: Charles Darwin’s Origin Story

At university and in the field, Darwin trained his scientific thinking as would a geologist, seeking causal explanations for observed natural phenomena.
"The trek of bums, tramps, single transients and undesirable indigents out of Los Angeles County because of police activity." Photographed by Dorothea Lange.

Los Angeles’s War on Tramps

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.
A view of Main Street in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

Under Moose Jaw: Tourism Or History?

Moose Javians’ confidence and reputation are rooted in a unique, if fanciful, story, developed after the economic downturn of the 1980s and 1990s.