April 11, 2018
A Search for Piety in Pity
Tracing the evolution of an emotion through ancient literature.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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April 10, 2018
The Dawn of Dining
A short history of dinner in France from Charlemagne to Napoleon.
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April 09, 2018
Just Like Us
Boston and Providence meet the famous Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker.
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April 06, 2018
The Rest Is History
Remembering 1968, tweets from the dead, and descriptions that are pretty—although they’re trying not to be.
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April 06, 2018
“To Die of a Dolphin and Moonshine”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the sea.
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April 04, 2018
Lonesome on the Lower East Side
The story of the Bintel Brief, an early twentieth-century advice column for Jewish immigrants.
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March 30, 2018
A Culture of Resistance
The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in historical perspective.
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March 30, 2018
The Rest Is History
March madness, frock consciousness, and unexpected extinctions.
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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.