July 13, 2020
The Question of Monuments
Despite our long history of interrogating the memorial landscape, no movement has been able to dislodge it.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 15, 2020
July 10, 2020
The Rest Is History
Historically relevant snails, medieval smells, and pernicious fictional plants.
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July 08, 2020
Sufferings Beyond Our Expressing
On the historic correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and Richard O’Brien, an American imprisoned in Algiers.
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July 07, 2020
How Is a Disaster Made?
Studying Hurricane Katrina as a discrete event is studying a fiction.
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July 06, 2020
A Union’s Opening Credits
How the Screen Actors Guild built solidarity in Hollywood during the Great Depression.
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July 02, 2020
The Urban Gilgamesh
What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city.
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July 01, 2020
A Campaign of Forced Self-Deportation
The history of anti-Chinese violence in Truckee, California, is as old as the town itself.
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June 30, 2020
Real-Life Rumpelstiltskin
On an alchemist who failed to make gold but still made history in porcelain.
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April 24, 2020
Space Oddities
2020:
Exoplanet revealed to be nothing but a large cloud of dust.
1903:
Supposed irrigation canals on Mars are merely optical illusions.
January 30, 2020
Commemoration Without Commas
2020:
A fifty-pence piece celebrates Brexit without Oxford’s punctuation mark.
1897:
A monument remembers the Battle of Trenton sans punctuation.