July 25, 2022
The Making of a Conspiracy Theory
On the fabrication of well-poisoning accusations in medieval Europe.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 25, 2025
July 22, 2022
The Rest Is History
Cosmopolitan cocktails, an old viral video, and elephants.
Read More
July 15, 2022
The Rest Is History
Disney in wartime, a Wikipedia hoax, and cosmopolitan African elites.
Read More
July 08, 2022
The Rest Is History
A thing “shocking to all sense of propriety,” the history of wheat, and the relatively unembellished lives of animals.
Read More
- ‹ previous
- 24 of 163
- next ›
August 07, 2023
Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.