March 01, 2021
An Omnivorous Biped That Wears Breeches
A magazine columnist considers the failures of men’s fashion in 1915.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
March 1, 2021
February 26, 2021
The Rest Is History
The great polio vaccine heist, mullets, and a “highly significant” Roman phallus.
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February 12, 2021
The Rest Is History
A new continent, sounds from a very old seashell, and the possibilities of a twenty-first-century Federal Writers’ Project.
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February 10, 2021
Those Who Work
What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants.
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February 05, 2021
The Rest Is History
Chair lit, a medieval pen-twister, and an unusual mud-wrapped mummy.
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February 03, 2021
An Enterprise of Solid Gold
On the lucrative business of pirating Voltaire in eighteenth-century Europe.
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January 29, 2021
The Rest Is History
Canine migration patterns, thumb dexterity, and supposedly objective historians.
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November 13, 2020
Whale Tales
2020:
Whale catches runaway train.
1891:
Whale purportedly houses lost sailor in its stomach.
September 14, 2020
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.