June 19, 2018
Encyclopedia Hounds
A few of Encyclopædia Britannica’s famous readers, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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June 14, 2018
Mementos of a Forgotten Frontier
The black pioneers who tried to start over out west.
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June 13, 2018
Untitled (Circus Scene)
Cornelia Barns, an illustrator for The Masses and beyond.
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June 11, 2018
The Second Bill of Rights
How Franklin D. Roosevelt envisioned social and economic rights as human rights.
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June 07, 2018
I Now Pronounce You Legally Null and Void
On archaic marriage laws—and those who found loopholes in them.
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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.
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Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.