• On the FSA photographs killed by Roy Emerson Stryker. (Public Domain Review)

• “The problem with constantly fighting over historical accounts is that doing so keeps us distracted from the battles that are still being fought—those over political and legal issues, land and water rights, and other matters of sovereignty that determine the lives and futures of our communities. Decolonizing the narrative doesn’t, in itself, decolonize the state.” (The Drift)

• On Smedley Butler. (The New Republic)

• Studying the mummy portraits of Roman Egypt. (Archaeology)

• The allure of extinct objects. (The Baffler)

• George Sand defends public parks. (Places Journal)

• Meet “the great lost female hacker of the 1980s.” (The Verge)

• The history of naturopathy. (Nursing Clio)

• Explore a collection of interviews with the formerly enslaved, collected by the academic John Brother Cade. (JSTOR Daily)

• “A metal detectorist who gave up his hobby when he started a family, only to return to it when his children were old enough to nag him into taking them out detecting with him, has been rewarded with one of the most extraordinary finds—a fine example of England’s oldest gold coin, which has sold for a record-breaking £648,000 at auction.” (The Guardian)

• This week in obituaries: Meat Loaf, Thierry Mugler, Thich Nhat Hanh, Johan Hultin, Steve Schapiro, Bobbe “Beegie” Long Adair, Elza Soares, Jim Drake, Louie Anderson, Peter Robbins, Sheldon Silver, Nicholas Thirkell, Marty Roberts, James Maraniss, Olavo de Carvalho, Edgar Cahn, Jana Bennett, Don Wilson, Peter Seabrook, Harvey G. Stack, Tom Smith, Rozanne Hawksley, Frank Dutton, John Arrillaga Sr., John Mitchinson, and Badal Roy.