May 31, 2022
Work the Lazy Way
On Annie Payson Call’s familiar advice to tired nineteenth-century workers.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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May 27, 2022
The Rest Is History
Straining the bounds of novelty; the dead of the past, present, and inevitable future; and objects left behind.
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May 25, 2022
The Ornatrices of Londinium
Finding evidence of the lives of the enslaved along the Thames.
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May 20, 2022
The Rest Is History
Feeding babies, the absence of information, and a crucial question about intergenerational justice.
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May 18, 2022
Flower Power
On the women botanists who kickstarted the ecological restoration movement in America.
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May 16, 2022
New Look, Same Great Look
The history of humans being confounded by color photography.
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May 13, 2022
The Rest Is History
Speed limits, to-go containers, and very old moving pictures.
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May 11, 2022
Report of Action Not Received
An accounting of racist murders in nineteenth-century America.
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May 06, 2022
The Rest Is History
Weaponizing a history of discrimination, John Brown in fiction, and finding cave art.
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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.