Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
April 8, 2021
April 07, 2021
Fit for a Queen
On the last hurrah of Queen Victoria and the British empire.
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April 02, 2021
The Rest is History
The vaccination selfie, tipping, and a handful of coins.
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March 31, 2021
Revisiting the Dead
Could Staten Island’s memorials to those lost to nineteenth-century epidemics tell us how the Covid-19 pandemic will be remembered?
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March 26, 2021
The Rest Is History
A “funny little” snail man and the voice of John Keats.
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March 24, 2021
A Confusion of Language
On the legal foundations that spurred centuries of civil rights movements.
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March 19, 2021
The Rest Is History
Kitschy miniature mountains, listening to books, and a famous carp.
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March 17, 2021
The First Revisionist Historian
On the consequential innovations of Herodotus and Thucydides.
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Whale Tales
2020:
Whale catches runaway train.
1891:
Whale purportedly houses lost sailor in its stomach.
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.