June 20, 2018
Killer Queens
When women ran the empire—and their history was preserved by men.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 22, 2018
June 21, 2018
Weegee the Not Yet Famous
A newspaper columnist watches the photographer practice a different instrument.
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June 19, 2018
Encyclopedia Hounds
A few of Encyclopædia Britannica’s famous readers, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.
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June 14, 2018
Mementos of a Forgotten Frontier
The black pioneers who tried to start over out west.
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June 13, 2018
Untitled (Circus Scene)
Cornelia Barns, an illustrator for The Masses and beyond.
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June 11, 2018
The Second Bill of Rights
How Franklin D. Roosevelt envisioned social and economic rights as human rights.
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April 25, 2018
He Just Doesn’t Like the Word “No”
2018:
A twelve-year-old steals his parents’ credit card and gets on a plane to Bali.
1723:
Seventeen-year-old Ben Franklin runs away on a boat and ends up in Philadelphia.
April 13, 2018
Remains of the Strays
2018:
The body of a poet is found in a sunless cellar.
1674:
The young royals wronged by Richard III are found under a staircase.