• The indigenous, communal history of South Carolina’s Frogmore stew. (Gastro Obscura)

• A pilgrimage to document American pyramids: “The intersection between new age beliefs and pyramid-buildings across the US is reflective of what he terms ‘capitalist metaphysics’—the impulse to channel the pyramid’s ancient, eastern, energetic properties toward the manifestation of American values.” (Guardian)

• Trying to catch Gustave Caillebotte. (NYR Online)

• On “thinking geographically” while reading Marx. (Verso)

• On Tabea Blumenschein’s films, which “resist a certain narrative closure and embrace contradictions, as did her life.” (Metrograph)

• “Taylor Swift’s Pre-Raphaelite Era.” (Literary Hub)

• “Every new tool, from the stone knife to the internet, has altered the hand that wielded it. The question is, then, if we are to edit other species, can we do it ethically and wisely? And how should it also change us?” (Aeon)

• A questionnaire for students: How do you feel about studying history? How do you think it can be taught better? (New York Times)

• This week in obituaries: Jane Goodall, Bobby Cain, Assata Shakur, Thomas Perry, Otto Obermaier, Ron Silverman, George Smoot, Aron Bell, Leo Gerard, Robert B. Barnett, Mel Taub, Russell Nelson, Henry Jaglom, Marilyn Knowlden, Edward T. Blake, Ernie Stevens Jr., Lally Weymouth, Patricia Routledge, Yahia Barzak, Mohammed al-Daya, and Victor Tony Jones, who was executed by lethal injection by the state of Florida.