• Meet Paschal Beverly Randolph. (Public Domain Review)

• Metal detectoring is in. (The Guardian)

• “An astonishing one-third of Capitol artworks depict slaveholders. Will they remain?” (The New Republic)

• The history of hating gas stoves. (Vox)

• On the U.S. government and Guam. (Dissent)

• The newly legible letters of Mary, Queen of Scots: “Deep in the digital archives of France’s national library, a collection of letters scratched out in unusual symbols were sitting neglected in a mislabeled folder until a trio of unlikely code breakers—a computer scientist, a musician, and a physicist—revealed their historic origin.” (Vice)

• A Rijksmuseum exhibition on slavery is coming to the United Nations. (Hyperallergic)

• On the New York City Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902. (JSTOR Daily)

• This week in obituaries: Burt Bacharach, David Sutherland, Paco Rabanne, Charles Silverstein, Marianne Mantell, Charlie Thomas, David Harris, Albert Okura, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Mukarram Jah, Melinda Dillon, Shlomo Perel, Joyce Dopkeen, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Pervez Musharraf, Jackie Rogers, Lubomir Strougal, Ted Bell, John Adams, Charles Kimbrough, Bob Orben, and Harry Whittington.