August 04, 2017
The Rest Is History
An eighteenth-century power couple, Italian tomb raiders, and a very long walk in 1569.
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August 04, 2017
An eighteenth-century power couple, Italian tomb raiders, and a very long walk in 1569.
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Lady engineers, citrus fruits as status symbols, and using oboe as a verb.
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World Ice Theory and the supernatural imaginary of the Third Reich.
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Ancient prosthetics, a suppressed Nazi plot, and the story of America’s rich uncle.
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Brief histories of Prospect Park, anti-Catholic hysteria, and taxidermy.
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Listen to the preamble to Fear, the Summer 2017 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
Read More2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.