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Issue	Title	Column	Author
25.1	Remaining Singular: Notes on Book Writing in the AI Bubble	Features	Ben Bascom
25.1	Bad Maps, Courtroom Clashes, and Agrarian Life in 17th-Century New England	Features	Nathan Braccio
25.1	Dishing Up History	Features	John Demos
25.1	Two Roads to Freedom: William Lee, Harry Washington, and Living the Paradox of the American Revolution	Features	Melchior Baltazar
25.1	Secret Loyalty and Public Respectability: The Transformation of Phi Beta Kappa in its First Half-Century	Features	Adam Arenson
25.1	Listening for Freemen	Reviews	Diana Louis
25.1	Read More Books: Immigration is about Staying Put, too.	Features	Karin Wulf
25.1	The Other Elizabeth and Mary: Anglo-Powhatan Marriages and the Virginia Company of London	Features	Kelly Watson
25.1	Whose 250th?	Features	Lindsay DiCuirci and Duncan Faherty, Duncan Faherty
25.1	What Caused the American Revolution? Historians’ Views From the Sesquicentennial Era	Features	Bruce Dearstyne

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Welcome to Commonplace, a destination for exploring and exchanging ideas about early American history and culture. A bit less formal than a scholarly journal, a bit more scholarly than a popular magazine, Commonplace speaks—and listens—to scholars, museum curators, teachers, hobbyists, and just about anyone interested in American history before 1900. It is for all sorts of people to read about all sorts of things relating to early American life—from architecture to literature, from politics to parlor manners. It’s a place to find insightful analysis of early American history as it is discussed in scholarly literature, as it manifests on the evening news, as it is curated in museums, big and small; as it is performed in documentary and dramatic films and as it shows up in everyday life.

In addition to critical evaluations of books and websites (Reviews) and poetic research and fiction (Creative Writing), our articles explore material and visual culture (Objects); pedagogy, the writing of literary scholarship, and the historian’s craft (Teach); and diverse aspects of America’s past and its many peoples (Learn). For more great content, check out our other projects, (Just Teach One) and (Just Teach One African American Print).

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Author, “Title of Article,” Commonplace: the journal of early American life, date accessed, URL.

Sophie White, “Trading Looks Race, Religion and Dress in French America,” Commonplace: the journal of early American life, accessed September 30, 2019, http://commonplace.online/article/trading-looks-race-religion-dress-french-america/

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