The Best of Lapham’s Quarterly
10+ most popular Lapham’s Quarterly articles, as voted by our community.
A magazine of history and ideas. Our latest issue is EDUCATION.
Lapham’s Quarterly on Books
Choice Reading
Nineteenth-century New York City was filled with books, bibliophilia, and marginalia.
Lapham’s Quarterly on Education
Misdirectives | Ian Altman
A public high school teacher asks why the wrong things cause a fuss in schools.
Lapham’s Quarterly on Food History
Lapham’s Quarterly on History
A Collection of Human Errors
For the rest of the year, Lapham’s Quarterly is running a series on the subject of history and the pleasures, pain, and knowledge that can be found from studying it. For more than fifty issues,…
«elemekten elde edilebilecek zevkler, acı ve bilgiler üzerine bir dizi yayınlıyor . Elliden fazla sayı için, antik çağlardan günümüze katkıda bulunanlar, dostluk, mutluluk, ölüm ve gelecek gibi temalar üzerine binlerce yıla yayılan sohbetlere katıldıla»
Studying the Script
China invented the longest lasting and most stable writing system in history. Chinese—the language—as we know it today is almost the same as the first inscriptions from nearly 3,200 years ago. And…
«Its syntax is flexible, the number of characters already substantial—between three thousand and five thousand, all well designed and clear.»
Lapham’s Quarterly on Immigration
The Right to Leave
In 1816 an American lawyer named J.F. Dumoulin wrote Thomas Jefferson a letter to thank him for his hospitality during a recent visit to the former president’s Monticello plantation. As a token of…
Lapham’s Quarterly on Relationships
Working Arrangement
Marriage as we know it today is a very recent invention—one that has very little in common with the unions of old.
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A Midsummer on Ice
This summer, Lapham’s Quarterly is marking the season with readings on the subject or set during its reign. Check in every Friday until Labor Day to read the latest. In the summer of 1894, Norwegian…
New Look, Same Great Look
Color is among the most challenging aspects of our experience to describe. Spectrophotometers and colorimeters can quantify light waves, yet their measurements have little impact on our feeling for…
These Destroyers of Towns
The Great Death was the most deadly recorded calamity ever to have struck humanity—and may well still be. Between 1347 and 1351 it is estimated to have killed 75 million to 200 million people across…
A Brief History of Frankincense
Small and gnarled, often showing its age, the frankincense tree grows in an Arabian Desert wadi where water occasionally flows in the winter. Its bark is papery and peeling in places, on it a tiny…
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