• On the effort to create an archive of the Covid-19 pandemic in Queens. (JSTOR Daily)

• Found: another Jacob Lawrence painting. (New York Times)

• Also found: a “really exciting” Bronze Age spearhead. (BBC News)

• Revisiting the Barbizon. (The New Yorker)

• “In 1938 moviegoers trying to survive in an impoverished world as it lurched toward war found themselves with two new movies on the French Revolution to choose from, La Marseillaise and Marie Antoinette.” (The Baffler)

• “Eugenics allowed these beliefs to appear rational and modern, a sign of a state advancing toward the future, and meant Virginia could keep a foot in both the Old South and the new—which was a tremendous advantage to white elites at this time.” (Scalawag)

• Scientists have confirmed that a painting of a kangaroo in a sandstone rock shelter in Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region is about 17,300 years old, making it the oldest known rock art in Australia.” (Science News)

• Revisiting the history of merpeople sightings and the mermaid’s role in culture. (The New York Review of Books)

• Learn how to play ten historical board games. (British Museum Blog)

• “Pompeii Archaeologists Have Unearthed the ‘Lamborghini’ of Chariots, Used to Chauffeur the Elite During Ancient Festivals.” (ArtNews)

• “How a flawed logic of economic scarcity and social climbing spurred witch hunts in early modern Germany.” (Aeon)

• “A team of scientists has reconstructed the outer and middle ear of Neanderthals and concluded that they listened to the world much like we do.” (New York Times)

• This week in obituaries: Vernon Jordan, Margaret Maron, Toko Shinoda, Nicola Pagett, Moufida Tlatli, Lawrence Otis Graham, Raymond Cauchetier, Bunny Wailer, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Sheila Washington, Joseph D. Duffey, Ralph Peterson Jr., Benedict J. Fernandez, Giuseppe Rotunno, Fred Segal, and Irv Cross.