Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
March 29, 2024
November 01, 2023
The Youngest Daughter of the Sciences
Electrical performances shocked upper-class eighteenth-century audiences.
Read MoreOctober 31, 2023
History by the People
A reading list from a 2023 Cundill History Prize finalist.
Read MoreOctober 25, 2023
Vacant Unsettled Lands
American thinkers consider what the already occupied West could fund.
Read MoreOctober 24, 2023
A Snapshot of Studying Historical Women in the 1980s
A reading list from a 2023 Cundill History Prize finalist.
Read MoreOctober 20, 2023
The Rest Is History
Doomsday diaries, avocado wars, and a Sufi lodge in Jerusalem.
Read MoreOctober 18, 2023
Collection Cost
Eighteenth-century British naturalists relied on slave traders to obtain thousands of natural specimens from West Africa.
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Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.