• Covid-19 in context: future historians, modernist literature, more future historians, Edith Wharton, broken food systems, and a short history of court cases over vaccination.

• Finding evidence of prehistoric people in the Rocky Mountains. (Archaeology)

• On “beating the bounds” to map a community. (JSTOR Daily)

• “Archaeologists have discovered the nearly complete skeleton of an enormous, now-extinct elephant that lived about 300,000 years ago in what is now the northern German town of Schöningen.” (Live Science)

• “How the navy was forced to commission its first black officers.” (The Undefeated)

• “Unless you are Indonesian, or a specialist on the topic, most people know very little about Indonesia, and almost nothing about what happened in 1965–1966 in that archipelago nation. The truth of the violence remained hidden for decades. The dictatorship established in its wake told the world a lie, and survivors were imprisoned or too terrified to speak out.” (NYR Daily)

• A very close look at Thomas Eakins’ The Gross Clinic. (New York Times)

• Archaeologists digging at the site of a future airport in Mexico City have found the remains of dozens of mammoths—which could have died after getting stuck in a lake. (CNN)

• Revisiting Gary Green’s photographs of New York. (The Guardian)

• On Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle: From the History of the American People. (Smithsonian)

• A history of camel toe. (The Attic)

• And a history of the codpiece. (NewYorker.com)

• On the Metabolist architects working in postwar Japan. (Places Journal)

• This week in obituaries: Larry Kramer, José María Galante, Margaret Meek Spencer, Jimmy Cobb, Margaret Maughan, Sam Johnson, June Willenz, Robb Forman Dew, Ann Mitchell, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Jocelyn Barrow, Nancy Stark Smith, and Ying Lee and Maggie Gee.