• “When Political Conventions Were Must-See TV.” (Intelligencer)

• Read “a collection of some 125 magic spells for all sorts of purposes: curses, healing potions, love charms, amulets.” (British Library Blogs)

• On rest cures. (Aeon)

• “Excavations at a city on the Nile reveal the origins of an ancient African power.” (Archaeology)

• “Museums Have a Docent Problem.” (Slate)

• “Bishop Peder Winstrup of Lund, Sweden, passed away in the winter of 1679 at the age of seventy-four and was interred in a crypt at Lund Cathedral. Three centuries later, his astonishingly well-preserved remains provide insights to the origins of tuberculosis.” (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)

• On new research concerning a certain “Lost Colony” in Roanoke that was not lost: “They were never lost. It was made up. The mystery is over.” (Virginian-Pilot)

• Plague and protest are correlated. (JSTOR Daily)

• “Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger a syphilis epidemic in Europe.” (Science)

• Found: “Israel’s first identifiable soap factory, dating to 1,200 years ago.” (Times of Israel)

• A visual history of the women’s suffrage movement. (New York Times)

• Remembering Texas suffragists. (The Texas Observer)

• On the women in Tennessee who made the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment possible. (Nashville Scene)

• This week in obituaries: Marvin Creamer, Madhav Prasad Ghimire, Aritana Yawalapiti, Luchita Hurtado, Charles Wetli, Judit Reigl, Billy Goldenberg, Gisèle Halimi, Robert Trump, Ben Cross, Eusebio Leal Spengler, Angela Buxton, Peter V. Tytell, Bernard Stiegler, Claire Shulman, Slade Gorton, and Linda Manz.