• On board games and progress. (Public Domain Review)

• A visual history of public libraries. (CityLab)

• Revisiting Robert Penn Warren’s letter to white America about the civil rights movement. (NewYorker.com)

• A look at the repatriation requests received by British museums. (The Guardian)

• Discovered: a (looted) Incan tomb. (Phys.org)

• Also found: a black cemetery in Delaware. Finding graves “roughly the size of a desktop on a thirty-seven-acre parcel is like looking for a needle in a haystack.” (Delaware Public Media)

• Bashir Mohamed is trying to use Twitter to uncover the racist histories of his home that he never learned in school. (Global News)

• The importance of black private collectors. (African American Intellectual History Society)

• The origin of the word miscegenation. (JSTOR Daily)

• Saving Heliopolis: “It’s extraordinary that one of the most famous cities of the ancient world is now a ghost of a name. It’s a black hole in our knowledge of ancient Egypt. Heliopolis is the great site.” (Archaeology)

• This week in obituaries: a novelist, a pitcher, a pole vaulter, a popularizer of the expression “global warming,” and Karl Lagerfeld.