• “What Can and Can’t Be Learned from a Doctor in China Who Pioneered Masks.” (New York Times)

• On the vaccination selfies of 1930s Japan. (Nursing Clio)

• Meet Ilya Metchnikoff, who drank Cholera vibrio and treated yogurt as preventative medicine. (Nautilus)

• How to acquire vintage clothes in medieval France. (Medievalists.net)

• Revisiting the life of Thaddeus Stevens. (The Baffler)

• A conversation about precolonial foodways. (Taste)

• “Scientists have pinpointed major changes in Europe’s Neanderthal populations—from traces of blood and excrement they left behind in a Spanish cave 100,000 years ago.” (The Guardian)

• The history of written constitutions as a migration story: “Hurried on by war, political and legal theories and models jump from nation to nation, continent to continent, carried by newspapers, books, and official documents, expressed in speeches, thrashed out in congresses, and argued over by exiles and dissidents. Endlessly adaptable, once published they could provide regimes ‘with an exportable and sometimes charismatic manifesto and vindication.’ Even small, ad hoc examples could be seeds for change.” (The New York Review of Books)

• “Where are the movies about the Haitian Revolution?” (JSTOR Daily)

• What to do with the Alamo: featuring Phil Collins. (Texas Monthly)

• This week in obituaries: Paul Mooney, Charles Grodin, Lee Evans, Katherine Barber, Tony Armatrading, Buddy Roemer, Pauline Tinsley, Christopher Stone, Eula Hall, Douglas Livingstone, Rennie Stennett, Barbara Stone, Aaron Stern, Mario Pavone, Chad Kalepa Baybayan, Art Gensler, David Wake, Nick Page, Janine Brookner, Franco Battiato, and Damon Weaver.