• The unwelcome return of the Comstock Act. (The New Republic)

• Understanding the man behind the Comstock Act: Anthony Comstock. (Vox)

• Revisiting Joan Micklin Silver’s Between the Lines. (Metrograph)

• The prehistory of gender-coded clothing for children: “Sexual ‘color coding’ in the form of pink or blue clothing for infants was not common in this country until the 1920s; before that time male and female infants were dressed in identical white dresses.” (JSTOR Daily)

• “A stone scoreboard used in an ancient ritual ball game has been discovered at the famed Mayan Chichén Itzá archaeological site on Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula.” (The Guardian)

• The legacy of Jeanne Manford. (The New Yorker)

• “The Youngest Victims of Belgium’s African Rule Are Still Seeking Justice, Decades Later.” (Smithsonian)

• Excavating a large city in Peru. (Archaeology)

• The history of spring cleaning. (New York Times)

• This week in obituaries: Al Jaffee, Mary Quant, Bill Butler, Lasse Wellander, Virginia Norwood, Michael Roberts, Ben Ferencz, Norman Reynolds, Anne Perry, Mel King, Michael Lerner, Meir Shalev, Alicia C. Shepard, Paul Cattermole, Craig Breedlove, Harry Lorayne, Carl Fischer, Hobie Landrith, Myriam Ullens, Rachel Pollack, and Nora Forster.