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Europeans used standardized bars of iron mined in northern Europe to purchase humans during the slave era, transforming the agricultural landscape of West Africa. bit.ly/3QZo86i

The lines between bribery and gift-giving in the ancient world were often unclear. bit.ly/3yA6uzF

Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, in his 2010 study of service records kept by a slave merchant based in Luanda, Angola, describes the brutality and rank inhumanity of the trade that dominated the city in its earliest days. bit.ly/4bGPmGK

What started as a solemn commemoration of dead Civil War soldiers has become a celebration of summer. Here’s why that makes total sense. bit.ly/2Er10bH #MemorialDay

#OTD in 1967, Jackie Kennedy, accompanied by her daughter, Caroline, launched the US Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy. bit.ly/3eqlx4M

In her time, Lucretia Howe Newman Coleman was a notable literary figure, but today her work exists only in fragments. This absence speaks to a larger story about documenting women’s history, particularly that of Black women. bit.ly/4brw1tk

In 1933, book reviewer Dorthea Brande wrote that #abortion was so common in contemporary novels that “it is likely to be looked upon as an initiation rite of our period by sociologists in the future.” bit.ly/3yqQ9gv

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée is an experiment in both lyric and epic modernism that uses form to invoke the tragedy of the wartime partition of Korea. bit.ly/4brTQBe

The images, diaries, and ephemera in the Civil War and Slavery Collection Grand Valley State reveal the cold realities of Abraham Lincoln’s world. bit.ly/3ywcyt0

The story of planet formation is complicated, fascinating, and still getting worked out. bit.ly/4dKFwFL #astronomy

Live animal transport has been a part of Australia’s history from its earliest days, when the British colony was established as New South Wales in 1788. bit.ly/3V89EDD

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#OTD in 1967, the Beatles released their concept album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Possibly the concept was LSD. But still. bit.ly/3QOnZja

In this week’s Suggested Readings: wasp-domesticated viruses, the long history of (gendered) activewear, and why humans want wings. bit.ly/44XmJTt

From the late seventeenth century, European traders focused on acquiring human captives that could be used as labor on New World plantations. One of the things Europeans traded for humans were standardized bars known as “voyage iron.” bit.ly/3QZo86i

In ancient Mesopotamia, many medical disorders were attributed to ghosts, including mental problems faced by men who had spent years at war. bit.ly/3QQhnU2

The vast Atlantic coast nation of Angola seems poised to become a tourist hot-spot, but uneven political and economic development may be standing in the way. bit.ly/4bGPmGK

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For centuries communities around the world have known that fungi remediate the earth after a wildfire. As blazes grow larger and more intense, so too does importance as a vital tool in ecosystem recovery. bit.ly/3UUlMXh