September 21, 2017
A Charitable Woman
Sixteenth-century Ottoman queen Roxelana, once a slave, makes her mark.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
September 21, 2017
September 15, 2017
The Rest Is History
A broke novelist, a bird-loving composer, and a murderous pig.
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September 06, 2017
Fear of White Genocide
Tracing the history of a myth from Germany to Charlottesville.
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September 01, 2017
The Rest Is History
Librarians on horseback, society women in art, and World War II clothing.
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August 30, 2017
The Vanishing Pugilist and the Poet
The marriage of twentieth-century avant-gardists Arthur Cravan and Mina Loy was blissfully happy—until his mysterious disappearance.
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August 25, 2017
The Rest Is History
A founding father’s marriage, a city’s disappearing treasures, and a state’s campaign against a butter substitute.
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August 18, 2017
The Rest Is History
Seven sisters sell hair tonic, New Yorkers protest Nazism, and Chinese laborers do the work of World War I.
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August 16, 2017
Into the Dusky, Rusky Forest
The extraordinary life and forgotten work of Dixie Willson.
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August 11, 2017
Equal Climates
2017:
U.S. Department of Agriculture bans words related to climate change.
350 BC:
Aristotle denies that the climate is changing.
July 26, 2017
Grave Aesthetics
2017:
Salvador Dalí’s moustache is discovered intact.
1817:
Long-dead Bourbons are shockingly presentable.