June 08, 2020
A Tour of the Plague Years in New York City
Revisiting the diseases that spread in Gotham.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 23, 2025
June 04, 2020
Conflict, Conflict, Conflict!
A Black feminist examines racism and resistance in America, circa 1892.
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June 01, 2020
A System of Sorting
When Congress relied on eugenics to make immigration policy.
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May 29, 2020
The Rest Is History
Future historians, mammoth remains, and an enormous elephant.
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May 26, 2020
“There Is Everything Here”
The Wordsworths and Coleridges build their own yearlong writing workshop.
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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.