1778 | Williamsburg, VA

Getting the Band Together

Thomas Jefferson tries to improve American music.More

The cloud hanging over the American brow.More

Objects that survived catastrophe.

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The chiefs of the Creek nation surrender the country of their forefathers.More

General Patton makes a statement.More

Preamble

An introduction to Lapham’s Quarterly.

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

War, Wilhelm II, and the consequences of leadership.

Lincoln’s second inaugural address.More

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