Nova lox, bagel, and cream cheese from Kutsher’s, 1977. Photograph by John Margolies. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive.
• Reminder: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are not the only women from New York who fought for voting rights. (New York Times)
• “We’re always told that the virtue of the popular history book is that it’s ‘a good story’—that it has narrative value academic history lacks. I disagree with the idea, having read many academic history books that were full of good stories, as well as popular histories that manage to combine critical analysis and storytelling.” (Slate)
• The art that reveals the lives of Chinese empresses: “If you watch the royal wedding in England, it’s a public affair, a spectacle. Back then, imperial women were probably completely invisible to the general public.” (Artsy)
• Play a new version of the Oregon Trail video game, When Rivers Were Trails. (Indian Country Today)
• The latest volley in the Shakespeare authorship debate: Was the Bard a woman? (The Atlantic)
• “Lost Weegee Crime Photos Revealed!” (New York)
• Why the word lox is important. (Nautilus)
• Where did Finnish come from? (Gizmodo)
• Go to hobo college, get more labor knowledge. (JSTOR Daily)
• Welcome back, women of Homer. (Public Books)
• That time Hemingway filed a $187,000 expense claim. (CJR)
• On Notre Dame and deciding which history to preserve. (NewYorker.com)
• This week in obituaries: Doris Day, I.M. Pei, Dax Cowart, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Peggy Lipton, W.L. Webb, Machiko Kyo, and Unita Blackwell.