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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 16 No. 1	Toward Meaning-making in the Digital Age: Black Women, Black Data and Colored Conventions	Colored Conventions Project Roundtable	Sarah Patterson
Vol. 16 No. 1	The Colored Conventions Project and the Changing Same	Colored Conventions Project	P. Gabrielle Foreman
Vol. 16 No. 1	Convention Minutes and Unconventional Proceedings	Colored Conventions Project Roundtable	Jim Casey
Vol. 16 No. 1	Liberating History: Reflections on Rights, Rituals and the Colored Conventions Project	Colored Conventions Project Roundtable	Carol A. Rudisell
Vol. 16 No. 1	The Colored Conventions Movement in Print and Beyond	Colored Conventions Project Roundtable	Curtis Small

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

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