Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 16, 2025
January 29, 2020
The Posterior of the United States
The beginning—and the bottom—of Sedition Act convictions.
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January 21, 2020
Inventing Freedom
Using manumission to disentangle blackness and enslavement in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia.
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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.