August 09, 2017
By Violence Dispossessed
Frances Coke’s marriage to John Villiers was a disaster—as was the war between her parents that preceded it.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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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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July 28, 2017
The Rest Is History
Lady engineers, citrus fruits as status symbols, and using oboe as a verb.
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July 26, 2017
A Song of Ice and Fire
World Ice Theory and the supernatural imaginary of the Third Reich.
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July 21, 2017
The Rest Is History
Ancient prosthetics, a suppressed Nazi plot, and the story of America’s rich uncle.
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July 14, 2017
The Rest Is History
Brief histories of Prospect Park, anti-Catholic hysteria, and taxidermy.
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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.