• “The vast majority of college football players are now interchangeable cogs, as subject to the whims of their boss as were immigrant workers in a nineteenth-century factory.” (Intelligencer)

• On the Young Lords, the 1960s Chicago street gang who became “the Puerto Rican counterpart to the Black Panthers.” (Current Affairs)

• Tracing the post-Soviet hacker market. (Financial Times)

• The revolt against London modernism. (The Paris Review Daily)

• “The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Vinegar Hill: Where American history meets the waterfront.” (The Bowery Boys)

• A case for James McBride as our next Great American Novelist. (Slate)

• On the “completely unnecessary” decision to drop the atomic bomb, which was “not driven by a military necessity to conclude the war but was deliberately undertaken to end the war on American terms and to put the United States in the best possible negotiating position.” (Jacobin)

• A new book “casts Africans on both sides of the Atlantic as the ‘prime movers’” of trade and of history. (New York Review of Books)

• Lord Byron’s love letter to the twelve-year-old girl he tried to purchase. (JSTOR Daily)

• The scientific discoveries that created twentieth-century sci-fi. (Literary Hub)

• Found in British Columbia: Remnants of burial sites and fishing grounds in an ancestral First Nation village. (The Art Newspaper)

• Coming soon to Philadelphia: a monument to Harriet Tubman. (Hyperallergic)

• This week in obituaries: Fernando Villavicencio, Robbie Robertson, Sixto Rodriguez, John Gosling, Leila Goldoni, Michael Boyd, DJ Casper, Mark Margolis, Alice Kahn Ladas, Arthur Schmidt, Williamson Murray, Amos Badertscher, William Friedkin, Rhoda Karpatkin, Leny Andrade, Charles Ogletree, and Lil Tay.