September 28, 2021
Do You Want to Build an Icehouse?
On the refrigerated innovations of ancient rulers.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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September 24, 2021
The Rest Is History
Trees, writing on the wall, and miscellaneous moments in American political history.
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September 24, 2021
A Vast Latrine for Dogs
A brief history of trying to save city streets from pet waste.
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September 17, 2021
The Rest Is History
Indexes, newborn pachyderm footprints, and revolutionized fonts.
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September 15, 2021
A Malady Called Nationalism
Diagnosing xenophobia in the nineteenth century.
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September 14, 2021
Midwestern Exposure
Zooming in on the places where early women photographers could build a career.
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September 10, 2021
The Rest Is History
Being saved by history, painstakingly slow restorations, and old earthquake tales.
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September 08, 2021
Journals of Plague Years
On the British doctors who became colonial disease detectives in the nineteenth century.
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September 07, 2021
Edgar Allan Poe Needs a Friend
Revisiting the relationships of “a man who never smiled.”
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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.