• On Vladimir Putin’s revisionist history of Ukraine. (NewYorker.com)

• “As so often with nationalists, Russia is simultaneously powerful and a victim in this, mighty but constantly sinned against and targeted by others. But that’s the point. This is a simple version of history, put forward by a strongman determined to transform it into a simple version of the future: one in which all so-called Russians, including Ukrainians, bow before the might of the empire—and the emperor.” (Foreign Policy)

• “Japanese Americans who were forced off their land lost property worth an estimated $3.7 billion in today’s dollars, and $7.7 billion worth of income. But not all losses are quantifiable, even in estimates. How can we count the communities dispersed, the culture disappeared? In the eighty years since, there’s been another loss: the memories of survivors of this forced removal.” (Mother Jones)

• “When we see a collection of materials online, there can be an assumption that the curator has detailed knowledge of each item, and in this case I did select and pull each item by hand. Knowing the relevance or importance of a particular item is not at all the same as being an expert on the content, but it’s a fair assumption as the practical project infrastructure behind a digital collection can seem completely opaque.” (JSTOR Daily)

• The history of the jackalope. (High Country News)

• “The Age of Dinosaurs may have ended in springtime.” (Science News)

• “In 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson founded the residential Job Corps program, and the 1960s became a significant decade for Black Americans in the Smokies, many of whom found their careers in the national park. In 1967 the park hired three Black naturalists. That same year, two African Americans enrolled in nearby Haywood Community College’s inaugural forestry program.” (Sierra)

• “The largest expanse of Roman mosaic found in London for more than half a century has been unearthed at a site believed to have been a venue for high-ranking officials to lounge in while being served food and drink.” (The Guardian)

• “What if the real deepfakes are the museums we made along the way?” (Grid)

• This week in obituaries: Paul Farmer, Joe Tom Easley, Iraj Pezeshkzad, Cristina Calderón, Bob Beckel, Lynn Umlauf, Charley Taylor, Arthur Feuerstein, Monique Hanotte, Jamal Edwards, Sherry Jones, Paul Willen, Joseph Horovitz, William Kuenzel, Jim Hagedorn, Dennison Young, Gary Brooker, and Mark Lanegan.