October 13, 2020
Graveyard Shift
Years of deliberate neglect led to a mine explosion in November 1968.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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October 09, 2020
The Rest Is History
Ancient intestines, presidential health conspiracies, and medieval acorns.
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October 07, 2020
A Most Laborious Road
During a crisis, Sarah Hoddart Hazlitt found solace in long and cathartic walks.
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October 06, 2020
Watch Out!
Music served as a through line during Zimbabwe’s fight for democracy.
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October 05, 2020
Children Will Listen
A political education begins with knockoff opinions amid the 1840 U.S. presidential election.
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October 02, 2020
The Rest Is History
An old selfie, the past and future of newsletters, and debates.
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September 30, 2020
Escaping the Index of Prohibited Books
How sixteenth-century Italian physicians tried to preserve their libraries.
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September 29, 2020
Form Follows Function
On Louis Sullivan’s Kindergarten Chats and the viral ideas of influential how-to books.
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September 25, 2020
The Rest Is History
A slightly misleading mummy portrait, Caravaggio, and prescient apocalypses.
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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.