December 23, 2020
Making a Fool
The evolution of English legal language that deemed people mentally incapacitated.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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December 21, 2020
Troubled Indemnity
A history of the United States shifting the financial burden of emancipation onto enslaved people.
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December 21, 2020
The Spirit of Democracy
David W. Blight and Lewis H. Lapham in conversation.
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December 18, 2020
The Rest Is History
Haddock in tasty sauce, a tower of skulls, and listening to Beethoven.
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December 16, 2020
My Country I Haven’t Forgotten
Following the many migrations and adaptations of Assyrian music.
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December 14, 2020
Degeneration Nation
How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.
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December 11, 2020
The Rest Is History
Historical scents, making up prehistory, and the rise of the family room.
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December 10, 2020
I Say Happiness
Mary Wollstonecraft communes with nature, and walks alone.
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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.