September 23, 2019
American Myth
The early years of the Chicano activist Reies López Tijerina.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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September 20, 2019
The Rest Is History
Unicorns of the sea, medieval soap, and John Milton’s marginalia.
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September 20, 2019
“The Earth Is Our Existence”
Readings from the past, from people worried there wouldn’t be a future.
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September 18, 2019
The People Vs. the Banks
How Americans turned against bankers after the Depression.
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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.
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Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.