August 10, 2018
The Rest Is History
Overworked librarians, bog bodies, and the impossibility of making a dictionary.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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August 09, 2018
Portraits of the Bowery
The author of Devil’s Mile looks at a changing urban landscape.
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August 06, 2018
Aboriginal Aquaculture
The first Australian engineers and how history almost overlooked them.
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August 02, 2018
Seeing for Himself
The amazing life of the doctor called to perform at the Hamilton-Burr duel.
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August 01, 2018
The Little Mayors of the Lower East Side
Getting to know the New York City street mayors of the turn of the century.
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July 30, 2018
The Haunting of a Heights House
Looking for the ghosts of the Morris-Jumel mansion.
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Monumental Mistakes
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Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
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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.
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Young communists engage in party matchmaking.