Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
April 28, 2021
April 23, 2021
The Rest Is History
Reclaimed artifacts, an ancient detective, and very old ceilings.
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April 21, 2021
Compiling the Canon
The story of a surprisingly influential sixteenth-century English poetry anthology.
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April 19, 2021
Scattered Exhausted Voices
On the limits, possibilities, and futures in the archive of queer activism.
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April 16, 2021
The Rest Is History
Ancient coronavirus, giraffe-like necks, and medieval dog jobs.
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April 13, 2021
In the Beginning, There Were Taxes
On the historical inevitability of paying the government.
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April 12, 2021
Why Honor Them?
In the decades after the Civil War, Black Americans warned of the dangers of Confederate monuments.
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April 09, 2021
The Rest Is History
Traveling beads, anachronistic dramas, and medieval pottery fragments.
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April 07, 2021
Fit for a Queen
On the last hurrah of Queen Victoria and the British empire.
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Whale Tales
2020:
Whale catches runaway train.
1891:
Whale purportedly houses lost sailor in its stomach.
Alfresco Gender Reveals
2020:
An outdoor gender-reveal party in California sparks a wildfire.
1500 BC:
Ancient Egyptian women visit a field of grain daily to determine their babies’ gender.