What I read today May 8

• Saving China's abandoned Tulou homes, CNN
• Collected Stories from WWII Veterans Around the World, Lens Culture
• ‘The Ugly American’ was a scathing critique of our bad behavior abroad—and it became a best seller, Timeline
• The inventors of the Pill decided women should still bleed every month, Timeline
• ‘Black branding’ — how a D.C. neighborhood was marketed to white millennials, The Washington Post