Guard standing in subway doorway, New York City, 1917. Photograph by Bain News Service. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
• On author and photographer Gene Stratton-Porter. (Smithsonian)
• Revisiting the sites in America where the enslaved were bought and sold. (New York Times)
• Found: a Neanderthal skeleton. (BBC News)
• Also found: remnants of a nineteenth-century Chinese community in Montana. (Missoulian)
• On the hundredth anniversary of the Negro Leagues. (JSTOR Daily)
• Nurse, serial killer, or both? (Narratively)
• A vicious case of Mesopotamian peer review. (Archaeology)
• Carpets on the subway? (Gothamist)
• This week in obituaries: Charles Portis, K.S. Maniam, Ja’Net DuBois, Larry Tesler, Elizabeth Cullinan, Esther Scott, Kellye Nakahara Wallett, Mickey Wright, A.E. Hotchner, and Rajendra Pachauri.