• On the Crazy Horse memorial and history: how it gets told, who is lifted up, and who can be forgotten. (The New Yorker)

• How climate change affects the lives of archivists—and the fate of the archives they keep. (Vice)

• Arthur Rimbaud tourists love visiting what the poet hated. (New York Times)

• Is this John Milton’s copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623? (Sure looks like it!) (The Guardian)

• On Roy Cohn: “And this is the problem when Everybody Knows. Why did it take thirty years to disbar Cohn over ethics violations happening in plain sight the whole time? Why did journalists keep putting this shameless crook on TV? Why didn’t mob ties disqualify him from high society?” (The New Republic)

• A van from South Carolina that had a role in the civil rights movement is headed to the National Mall. (Post and Courier)

• Looking at the San Paolo Fuori le Mura for clues into the potential futures of the Notre Dame. (Places Journal)

• If you’re going to make medieval soap, don’t forget the ashes from an oak tree or the tallow. (Medievalists.net)

• “Their spotty publication history reminds us that the fate even of black genius is never secure. We can never take for granted that black artists will be consistently supported, even when they succeed.” (Slate)

• On the historians trying to shift how the story of Texas is told in history books. (Texas Monthly)

• “The last recorded sin-eater was a man named Richard Munslow, who died in 1906 in Ratlinghope, Shropshire.” (The Chirurgeon’s Apprenticer)

• A worthy question: “Why are cities filled with metal men on horseback?” (JSTOR Daily)

• On the man who tried to argue that unicorns were aquatic creatures of the north. (The Public Domain Review)

• “Researchers crawling in guano reveal the Earth’s climate past to find out what the future holds.” (Index)

• This week in obituaries: a journalist, an artist, a constant presence in fashion, a musician, a writer and conservationist, and a writer from a famous literary family.