December 10, 2020
I Say Happiness
Mary Wollstonecraft communes with nature, and walks alone.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
December 11, 2020
December 11, 2020
The Rest Is History
Historical scents, making up prehistory, and the rise of the family room.
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December 07, 2020
Illuminating the World
How medieval German chronicles repackaged the progress of history.
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December 04, 2020
The Rest Is History
A prosthetic toe, a very good fictional dog, and prehistoric power grips.
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December 03, 2020
Infamous Assassins of the Middle Ages
The stories of a martyr, a booby trap, and the first assassination in British history.
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November 30, 2020
Eager to Appropriate
On the Supreme Court decisions that created “Indian Country.”
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November 27, 2020
The Rest Is History
Pilgrim fashion, empty museums, and heading to the tavern for the sake of democracy.
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November 24, 2020
Suing for Freedom
On one eighteenth-century family’s decades-long court battles for emancipation.
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November 20, 2020
The Rest Is History
Resurgent gout, medieval claims of impotence, and Victorian pigeon mania.
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November 18, 2020
The Hotel at the Heart of the Hudson River School
An unearthed guest register from the Catskill Mountain House sheds light on the artists who spent the night there.
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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.