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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View of Grbavica, a neighbourhood of Sarajevo, approximately 4 months after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord that officially ended the war in Bosnia, 1996. Photograph by Lt. Stacey Wyzkowski.

Band of Brigands

By John Mueller

The criminality of modern warfare.

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Map

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

1415 | Harfleur

The Game’s Afoot

Henry V lands on the beaches of Normandy.More

1063 | Thérouanne

Disarmament Treaty

Church rules.More

Charts & Graphs

Killer Tunes

The BBC thought twice about playing these songs during the Persian Gulf War.

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Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Joseph Heller

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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Lapham’sDaily

Roundtable

Lapham’s Quarterly Is on Hiatus

By Lapham’s Quarterly

But the American Agora Foundation is already planning for the future. More

The Colosseum, attributed to Robert Eaton, c. 1855.

DÉjÀ Vu

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.

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Terracotta funerary plaque, Greek, Attic, c. 520 BC.

The World in Time

Robert D. Kaplan

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power. More

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