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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A composite image of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his Generals, c. 1914.

Imperial Hubris: A German Tale

By Fritz Stern

War, Wilhelm II, and the consequences of leadership.

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Fringe Benefits

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

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2007 | Washington

Speaking Truth to Power

Jessica Lynch sets the record straight.More

1953 | Washington

“Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron”

Dwight D. Eisenhower explains the exchange rate for war.More

1865 | Washington

“With Malice Toward None”

Lincoln’s second inaugural address.More

Charts & Graphs

Death Gratuity

U.S. military condolence reimbursements.

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President of the United States and five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Former President of the United States Richard Nixon.

American novelist Tim O’Brien.

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Statue of French medieval poet and historian Jean Froissart.

Photograph of Soviet Russian writer and journalist Vasily Grossman.

I detest war. It spoils armies.

—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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Roundtable

Feeling Sheepish

By Sally Coulthard

Where did the phrase black sheep come from, anyway? More

DÉjÀ Vu

Whale Tales

2020:

Whale catches runaway train.

1891:

Whale purportedly houses lost sailor in its stomach.

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The World in Time

David S. Brown

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams. More

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