Angela Serratore
Angela Serratore is a writer, a historian, and the former web editor of Lapham’s Quarterly. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Buzzfeed, and The Paris Review Daily.
Angela Serratore is a writer, a historian, and the former web editor of Lapham’s Quarterly. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Buzzfeed, and The Paris Review Daily.
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Librarians on horseback, society women in art, and World War II clothing. More
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A founding father’s marriage, a city’s disappearing treasures, and a state’s campaign against a butter substitute. More
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Seven sisters sell hair tonic, New Yorkers protest Nazism, and Chinese laborers do the work of World War I. More
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The Summer of Love, the smelly summer of 1858, and the summer(s) of the lunar eclipse. More
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Ancient prosthetics, a suppressed Nazi plot, and the story of America’s rich uncle. More
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Brief histories of Prospect Park, anti-Catholic hysteria, and taxidermy. More
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A king’s jewelry, thousand-year-old concrete, and P.T. Barnum’s lasting legacy. More
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Victorians go camping, presidents invite the press home, and July 4 celebrants risk “patriotic tetanus.” More
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A papal scandal, a special kind of kitchen, and a video of cats boxing in 1894. More
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Big sleeves in the 1830s, white marble in the ancient world, and personal branding in the twentieth century. More
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Having (and eating) cake in French literature, organizing crime around a lemon grove, and working with Frank Lloyd Wright. More
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Sigmund Freud in America, Shirley Jackson at home, and Edith Wharton in the archives. More
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Reconsidering the Hollywood sign, inventing the department store, and transforming nature photography. More
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Agatha Christie goes missing, Richard III gets restaged, and medieval toads find religion. More
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Going to the moon in 1683, defining the look of witchcraft, and combing the seafloor for treasure. More
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Medical marijuana in the nineteenth century, lost cities in the jungle, and noise complaints from Marcel Proust. More
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James Baldwin at the Schomburg, Ernest Hemingway in World War I, and Count Dracula in Iceland. More
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Che Guevara in the Congo, dreams and telegrams in the nineteenth century, and the long history of hysterical women. More
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A nun’s adventures, a teen girl’s vaudeville act, and a literary icon’s style. More
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The real Casanova, the furniture of Frank Lloyd Wright, and remembering literary and musical legends. More
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Preparing for a royal death, an Irish tradition of the American government, and the irresistible allure of existential philosophers. More
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Mill workers on strike, sailors admiring icebergs, and queens in the bath. More
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Ghosts of the 1940s, childbirth in the 1910s, and pasta in the 1770s. More
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Proust: caught on film, laundry chutes: more interesting than you thought, and news: fake? More
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The real Mr. Darcy, advice from 1920s starlets, and valentines for enemies. More
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Life in the First Mansion can be tough. We can help. More
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The landscape of literary London, the science fiction of Scientology, and what Victorians actually looked like. More
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Utopias close to home, the hair of 1920s criminals, and coffee brewed by men. More
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Presidents consider history, New Deals, and being rendered in wax. More
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Seeking advice from the ancients, conscripting female robots into service, and saying no to holiday gifts. More
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The legend of Rasputin, Kafka’s greatest fear, and animals who don’t belong. More
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Henry VIII is too hot to handle, boredom serves a purpose, and 1900s bachelorettes rate their dates. More
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A bed for everyone, a saucy prime minister, and an archetype reconsidered. More
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How van Gogh lost his ear, how umpires get dressed, and how windows are taking over the world. More
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Kierkegaard’s love life, Shakespeare’s co-author, and T.S. Eliot’s look. More
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Simone de Beauvoir’s solo expeditions, the CIA’s modern art collection, and New York City’s unrealized cityscapes. More
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Revolutionary dancing, literary redecorating, and surreal cooking. More
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Poetic pilgrimages, a language for everyone, and the terror of Victorian England. More
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A pioneering cowgirl, Shirley Jackson at home and at work, and a literary auction. More
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Revolutionary reenacting, literary touring, and historic zookeeping. More
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Managing the image of a philosopher, out-of-this-world book covers, and watching poetry online. More
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Funding a famous statue, working in the twenty-first-century office, and insulting every president. More
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Judging the fashions of female politicians, revisiting a famous muse, and searching for history in a swamp. More
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Snakes in New England, women in the Olympics, and Gertrude Stein in the children’s section. More
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Electrical currents and fertility, man-made natural wonders, and a Shakespearean art form in America. More
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Spray food, a meeting of literary legends, and a very smelly flower. More