Lapham’s Quarterly is an absorbing US quarterly that tackles a changing topic of current interest with every issue 'by bringing up to the microphone of the present the advice and counsel of the past.'
Themes have included war, religion, money, medicine, nature, crime and more, all addressed with an editorial view that history is the root of all education, scientific and literary as well as political and economic. Abridged rather than paraphrased, the letters, speeches, diaries, dramatic acts, essays, poems and songs (content also includes photographs, paintings and drawings) in Lapham’s Quarterly never run longer than six pages, others no more than six paragraphs.