December 14, 2020
Degeneration Nation
How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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December 11, 2020
The Rest Is History
Historical scents, making up prehistory, and the rise of the family room.
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December 10, 2020
I Say Happiness
Mary Wollstonecraft communes with nature, and walks alone.
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December 07, 2020
Illuminating the World
How medieval German chronicles repackaged the progress of history.
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December 04, 2020
The Rest Is History
A prosthetic toe, a very good fictional dog, and prehistoric power grips.
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December 03, 2020
Infamous Assassins of the Middle Ages
The stories of a martyr, a booby trap, and the first assassination in British history.
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November 30, 2020
Eager to Appropriate
On the Supreme Court decisions that created “Indian Country.”
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November 27, 2020
The Rest Is History
Pilgrim fashion, empty museums, and heading to the tavern for the sake of democracy.
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November 24, 2020
Suing for Freedom
On one eighteenth-century family’s decades-long court battles for emancipation.
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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.