Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 16, 2025
November 03, 2023
Lapham’s Quarterly Is on Hiatus
But the American Agora Foundation is already planning for the future.
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November 01, 2023
The Youngest Daughter of the Sciences
Electrical performances shocked upper-class eighteenth-century audiences.
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October 31, 2023
History by the People
A reading list from a 2023 Cundill History Prize finalist.
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October 25, 2023
Vacant Unsettled Lands
American thinkers consider what the already occupied West could fund.
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October 24, 2023
A Snapshot of Studying Historical Women in the 1980s
A reading list from a 2023 Cundill History Prize finalist.
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October 20, 2023
The Rest Is History
Doomsday diaries, avocado wars, and a Sufi lodge in Jerusalem.
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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.
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.