September 08, 2021
Journals of Plague Years
On the British doctors who became colonial disease detectives in the nineteenth century.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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September 07, 2021
Edgar Allan Poe Needs a Friend
Revisiting the relationships of “a man who never smiled.”
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September 03, 2021
The Rest Is History
The Battle of Blair Mountain, a sanitized version of the American past, and buying history on eBay.
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August 30, 2021
The World According to Sylvester Russell
The career and legacy of a Black critic who argued for the elevation of Black performance.
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August 25, 2021
A Pacific Gold Rush
On the routes miners traveled to reach gold in the United States and Australia.
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August 24, 2021
No Thanks to the Academy
Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague.
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August 07, 2023
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.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.