Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 15, 2025
May 08, 2019
American Beauty, Explained
When a women’s magazine editor enforced an ideal of the slender Anglo-Saxon Protestant woman.
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May 07, 2019
The Bubonic Plague Hits Hawaii
How prejudice helped spread disease at the turn of the century.
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May 06, 2019
The Universal Cause
A history of reformers targeting sex trafficking in pursuit of other aims.
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May 02, 2019
Building Your Brand
Crafting a sense of self—while trying not to look self-absorbed—in the nineteenth century.
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April 30, 2019
A Parrot Pandemic
The origins of America’s 1930 outbreak of psittacosis, aka parrot fever.
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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.