June 27, 2017
Charlotte Brontë’s Teaching Career
How the novelist’s work as a governess shaped her worldview—and her writing.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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June 23, 2017
The Rest Is History
A papal scandal, a special kind of kitchen, and a video of cats boxing in 1894.
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June 16, 2017
The Rest Is History
Big sleeves in the 1830s, white marble in the ancient world, and personal branding in the twentieth century.
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June 09, 2017
The Rest Is History
Having (and eating) cake in French literature, organizing crime around a lemon grove, and working with Frank Lloyd Wright.
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June 02, 2017
The Rest Is History
Sigmund Freud in America, Shirley Jackson at home, and Edith Wharton in the archives.
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May 31, 2017
Edison vs. Scott
The complicated story behind the invention of sound recording.
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May 19, 2017
The Rest Is History
Reconsidering the Hollywood sign, inventing the department store, and transforming nature photography.
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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.