Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 16, 2025
July 30, 2018
The Haunting of a Heights House
Looking for the ghosts of the Morris-Jumel mansion.
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July 27, 2018
The Rest Is History
Ketchup, Emily Brontë, and “sex scenes, mostly set in dungeons.”
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July 25, 2018
A Wretched Situation Made Plain on Paper
How an engraving of a slave ship helped the abolition movement.
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July 24, 2018
Papal Indulgences
The story of the Avignon papacy and an acclaimed Rhône wine.
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July 23, 2018
The Souvenirs of Westward Expansion
The tale of field biologists who followed business west, collecting specimens along the way.
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July 20, 2018
The Rest Is History
Country music, sloshed history, and illegible (but important) handwriting.
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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.