April 04, 2018
Lonesome on the Lower East Side
The story of the Bintel Brief, an early twentieth-century advice column for Jewish immigrants.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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March 30, 2018
A Culture of Resistance
The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in historical perspective.
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March 30, 2018
The Rest Is History
March madness, frock consciousness, and unexpected extinctions.
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March 29, 2018
Voices in Time: American Timbuctoo
The author of This Radical Land goes up north.
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March 28, 2018
Jackie Mitchell Couldn’t Win
Skepticism followed baseball’s most famous female pitcher until the day she died.
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March 26, 2018
A National Pastime Divided
Tracing moments in baseball’s Hall of Shame from the Civil War to World War II.
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March 23, 2018
The Rest Is History
Powerful agents of truth, experts in nothing, and collective amnesia.
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March 22, 2018
Voices in Time: History via Dorm Decor
The author of The Red Word remembers a ubiquitous poster.
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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.