November 24, 2020
Suing for Freedom
On one eighteenth-century family’s decades-long court battles for emancipation.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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November 20, 2020
The Rest Is History
Resurgent gout, medieval claims of impotence, and Victorian pigeon mania.
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November 18, 2020
The Hotel at the Heart of the Hudson River School
An unearthed guest register from the Catskill Mountain House sheds light on the artists who spent the night there.
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November 16, 2020
A More Perfect Union
On the Black labor organizers who fought for civil rights after Reconstruction and through the twentieth century.
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November 11, 2020
Why We Built the Wall
Considering the Aurelian Wall as a through line in the history of Rome.
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November 09, 2020
Stay Home, All Ye Faithful
A letter from 640 proves that banning travel during an outbreak has been a long-standing practice.
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November 04, 2020
Guard Against Confusion
How Ludwig Wittgenstein came to write a dictionary for elementary school students.
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August 07, 2023
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.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.