October 30, 2017
An Unwelcome Stowaway
How the silk trade and climate change led to the Plague of Justinian.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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October 27, 2017
The Rest Is History
Flu seasons past, bad investments, and an eclipse in the humanities.
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October 25, 2017
The Amnesia Plot
How 1940s films reinvented the ways stories are told onscreen.
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October 13, 2017
The Rest Is History
Dancing girls, ancient lentils, and Sylvia Plath goes to college.
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October 11, 2017
The First Tejano Historian
How José Antonio Navarro challenged the historical narrative of Anglo Texas.
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October 06, 2017
The Rest Is History
Artists’ meals, Homer’s lessons, and presidents’ children.
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Monumental Mistakes
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Revolutionary Lovebirds
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Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
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