May 16, 2022
New Look, Same Great Look
The history of humans being confounded by color photography.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 28, 2022
May 27, 2022
The Rest Is History
Straining the bounds of novelty; the dead of the past, present, and inevitable future; and objects left behind.
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May 25, 2022
The Ornatrices of Londinium
Finding evidence of the lives of the enslaved along the Thames.
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May 20, 2022
The Rest Is History
Feeding babies, the absence of information, and a crucial question about intergenerational justice.
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May 18, 2022
Flower Power
On the women botanists who kickstarted the ecological restoration movement in America.
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May 13, 2022
The Rest Is History
Speed limits, to-go containers, and very old moving pictures.
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May 11, 2022
Report of Action Not Received
An accounting of racist murders in nineteenth-century America.
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May 06, 2022
The Rest Is History
Weaponizing a history of discrimination, John Brown in fiction, and finding cave art.
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March 04, 2022
Dance Stance Revolution
2022:
Brazilian blocos ignore ban on Carnival celebrations.
1576:
Italian plague patients ignore ban on dance parties.
January 25, 2022
Crash Test Dummies
2022:
YouTuber accused of crashing an airplane as a publicity stunt.
1896:
Passenger agent crashes two trains in a publicity stunt.