Top Hackernews posts from www.laphamsquarterly.org

1. What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
   181 points by diodorus over 3 years ago | 195 comments
2. The Deported (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
   158 points by 1sembiyan about 2 years ago | 132 comments
3. Borges: Recommendations from a life of lectures and essays (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
   148 points by drdee almost 2 years ago | 35 comments
4. Weary of Work (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
   136 points by Hooke over 3 years ago | 83 comments
5. The Early Days of American English (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
   116 points by samclemens about 1 year ago | 60 comments
6. Not Belonging to the World: Hannah Arendt Holds Firm (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
   111 points by lermontov almost 3 years ago | 36 comments
7. Lapham's Quarterly Is on Hiatus (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
   106 points by samclemens 11 months ago | 17 comments
8. The Prospective Student’s Guide to Medieval Universities (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
   105 points by acdanger over 1 year ago | 21 comments
9. Immortal by Default: A brief history of humans and the ginkgo tree (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
   97 points by Vigier almost 2 years ago | 28 comments
10. Misunderstanding Greek and Latin in eighteenth-century Britain (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    92 points by pepys 12 months ago | 36 comments
11. The Loaf Guardians: Parsing the Early History of the Anglo-Saxons (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    86 points by Petiver over 3 years ago | 12 comments
12. Aldous Huxley insisted “Crome Yellow” was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    84 points by lermontov over 2 years ago | 10 comments
13. How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    79 points by apollinaire about 1 year ago | 57 comments
14. Feuding twin sisters popularized the American advice column (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    75 points by apollinaire about 1 year ago | 21 comments
15. A Winelike Sea (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    73 points by jelliclesfarm over 1 year ago | 55 comments
16. The socialist calculation debate (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    70 points by Amorymeltzer over 1 year ago | 375 comments
17. The Oasis of Palmyra (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    69 points by seattleiteite about 3 years ago | 14 comments
18. The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    67 points by benbreen over 3 years ago | 57 comments
19. Humans being confounded by color photography (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    66 points by apollinaire over 2 years ago | 18 comments
20. One can scarcely help clarifying him: on the Brothers Karamazov (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    65 points by Caiero about 1 year ago | 84 comments
21. Family Matters: Everyday Life in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    64 points by Petiver over 1 year ago | 51 comments
22. The last days of William Blake (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    64 points by drdee over 2 years ago | 11 comments
23. The Early History of Counting (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    61 points by anarbadalov about 1 year ago | 18 comments
24. Appetite for Destruction: Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    60 points by pepys about 2 years ago | 61 comments
25. Frederick W. Taylor offers some productivity hacks (1911) (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    60 points by drdee over 3 years ago | 38 comments
26. Experiencing History in Assassin’s Creed (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    60 points by drdee almost 3 years ago | 26 comments
27. Pragmatic Writing Advice from the 6th Century (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    58 points by benbreen over 1 year ago | 4 comments
28. The Artistic Partnership of Lady Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    58 points by Caiero over 1 year ago | 8 comments
29. Vast and innumerable throngs of the ancient dead (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    58 points by diodorus almost 2 years ago | 13 comments
30. 17th-century botanists filled their gardens with plants from around the world (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    56 points by benbreen about 3 years ago | 16 comments
31. How much is a smidgen? (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    55 points by efface over 1 year ago | 60 comments
32. The Oldest Maps in the World (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    54 points by benbreen over 1 year ago | 10 comments
33. Fiction Is History: A journey through Joseph Conrad’s life at sea (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    54 points by benbreen about 2 years ago | 7 comments
34. Men Becoming Wolves (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    54 points by diodorus over 3 years ago | 31 comments
35. A New Planet in the System (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    54 points by samclemens about 3 years ago | discuss
36. Waiting for Brando: A disastrous 1961 film production of the Iliad (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    53 points by Caiero over 1 year ago | 50 comments
37. Seizing the Means of Audio Production (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    53 points by tintinnabula over 2 years ago | 13 comments
38. A Brief History of Frankincense (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    53 points by Vigier over 2 years ago | 19 comments
39. The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    51 points by prismatic about 1 year ago | 16 comments
40. The Ascendant Steppe: A brisk tour of the early history of Central Asia (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    51 points by diodorus about 3 years ago | 4 comments
41. The life and work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
    50 points by benbreen over 1 year ago | 23 comments