
Amazon Region Series, by Peter Minchell, 1974. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Robert and Joan Doty, 1992.
• “A New Archive Digitizes More Than a Century of Black American Funeral Programs.” (Atlas Obscura)
• “A ring of large shafts discovered near Stonehenge form the largest prehistoric monument ever discovered in Britain, archaeologists believe.” (BBC News)
• On a battle over democracy statues in Thailand. (Vice)
• A racist statue of Theodore Roosevelt in New York City is scheduled to come down. (Smithsonianmag.com)
• “Why This Mexican Village Celebrates Juneteenth.” (Texas Monthly)
• “Innovation by ancient farmers to improve soil fertility continues to have an impact on the biodiversity of the Amazon, a major new study shows.” (University of Exeter)
• The power of names. (New York Times)
• On American fascism. (NYR Daily)
• The Age of Innocence on its centennial. (Jezebel)
• Meet Superbarrio. (JSTOR Daily)
• “This Rocket Scientist Is Tracing Black Ingenuity Through Barbecue.” (Bon Appétit)
• On Charles Booth’s survey of London poverty. (London Review of Books)
• “The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army.” (New York Times)
• This week in obituaries: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Joel Schumacher, Felicity Bryan, Ian Holm, Eula Bingham, Robert D. Richardson, Diane Tammes, Robert Laughlin, Shirley Siegel, Charles Webb, Michael Hawley, and Kirk R. Smith.