Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano , by Paolo Uccello, c. 1435–1460. National Gallery, London.

Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano, by Paolo Uccello, c. 1435–1460. National Gallery, London.

States of War

Volume 1, Number 1 | winter 2008

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Preamble

The Gulf of Time

By Lewis H. Lapham

An introduction to Lapham’s Quarterly.

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The Course of Empire: Destruction, by Thomas Cole, 1836.

Storm Warning

By Caleb Carr

Are there meaningful parallels between America today and late imperial Rome, and will they suffer a similar fate?

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Map

Fringe Benefits

Inventions, countries, and styles that came out of war.

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1944 | East Anglia

Addressing the Troops

General Patton makes a statement.More

1969 | My Lai

The “Pinkville” Incident

Exposing the My Lai massacre.More

1865 | Washington

“With Malice Toward None”

Lincoln’s second inaugural address.More

Charts & Graphs

The Financial Cost of America’s Wars

From the Revolutionary War to the Iraq War.

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British historian Edward Gibbon.

Black and white photograph of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud with cigar.

Illuminated manuscript illustration of a bearded man wearing a mitre and holding a staff

A dead enemy always smells good.

—Aulus Vitellius, 69

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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