Lapham's Quarterly

Lapham’s Quarterly is a project of the American Agora Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of history. Established in 2007 by former Harper’s Magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham, the magazine embodies the belief that historical consciousness is an asset a democratic republic can ill afford to lose, that history is the root of all education—social and scientific; spiritual, political, and economic. Each issue of the Quarterly focuses on a question of primary and always current concern—recent issues focused on freedom, migration, epidemics, democracy, and climate—by placing the voices and witnesses of the past at the service of the present.