January 21, 2020
Inventing Freedom
Using manumission to disentangle blackness and enslavement in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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January 16, 2020
“The Influence of These Nautch Girls”
On the dancers of the Mughal empire.
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January 14, 2020
George Eliot Meets Spinoza
One of the author’s most constant companions was a philosopher who had been dead for well over a century.
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January 13, 2020
Joshua Reynolds’ General Truths
Revisiting the English painter’s portraits of Mai and Ostenaco.
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January 06, 2020
Felix the Cat Gets Shipped to the Front
On a proto-pacifist animated film that forced viewers to look at the devastation of war.
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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.