Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 11, 2025
June 04, 2021
The Rest Is History
Decapitated skeletons, a very old war memorial, and ancient beauty hacks.
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June 03, 2021
Frederick Douglass Gives a Commencement Address
Read the abolitionist’s 1854 speech at Western Reserve College.
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June 02, 2021
House Warning
Revisiting Else Jerusalem’s critique of bourgeois hypocrisy and exploitation.
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June 01, 2021
Introducing the Loaf Guardians
Parsing the early history of the Anglo-Saxons.
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May 27, 2021
Ordeal by Fire
The first commencement speech given by a woman at Smith College.
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May 26, 2021
Is This Land Made for You and Me?
How African Americans came to Indian Territory after the Civil War.
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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.