December 03, 2020
Infamous Assassins of the Middle Ages
The stories of a martyr, a booby trap, and the first assassination in British history.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 23, 2025
November 30, 2020
Eager to Appropriate
On the Supreme Court decisions that created “Indian Country.”
Read More
November 27, 2020
The Rest Is History
Pilgrim fashion, empty museums, and heading to the tavern for the sake of democracy.
Read More
November 24, 2020
Suing for Freedom
On one eighteenth-century family’s decades-long court battles for emancipation.
Read More
November 20, 2020
The Rest Is History
Resurgent gout, medieval claims of impotence, and Victorian pigeon mania.
Read More
November 18, 2020
The Hotel at the Heart of the Hudson River School
An unearthed guest register from the Catskill Mountain House sheds light on the artists who spent the night there.
Read More
November 16, 2020
A More Perfect Union
On the Black labor organizers who fought for civil rights after Reconstruction and through the twentieth century.
Read More
November 11, 2020
Why We Built the Wall
Considering the Aurelian Wall as a through line in the history of Rome.
Read More- ‹ previous
- 50 of 163
- next ›
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.