Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 16, 2021
June 09, 2021
A Mother’s Influence
How African American women represented Black motherhood in the early nineteenth century.
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June 04, 2021
The Rest Is History
Decapitated skeletons, a very old war memorial, and ancient beauty hacks.
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June 03, 2021
Frederick Douglass Gives a Commencement Address
Read the abolitionist’s 1854 speech at Western Reserve College.
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June 02, 2021
House Warning
Revisiting Else Jerusalem’s critique of bourgeois hypocrisy and exploitation.
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June 01, 2021
Introducing the Loaf Guardians
Parsing the early history of the Anglo-Saxons.
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May 20, 2021
Read It and Weep
2021:
Woman creates an NFT artwork out of Instagram messages with a celebrity.
1757:
Woman creates an epistolary novel out of love letters with a nobleman.
May 13, 2021
Uneasy Lies the Beard
2021:
Indian prime minister grows a beard during the Covid-19 pandemic.
361:
Roman emperor grows a beard to resemble Greek philosophers.