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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 05 No. 4	Sing America!	The Common School	Andrea Maxeiner
Vol. 08 No. 3	Alive with the Sound of Music	Tales from the Vault	Douglas Shadle
Vol. 06 No. 1	Dancing through American History	The Common School	April F. Masten
Vol. 17 No. 3	An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing	Features	Laura Asson
Vol. 13 No. 2	“Let’s mingle our feelings”: Gender and Collectivity in the Music of the Shaker West	Music and Meaning in Early America	Carol Medlicott
Vol. 13 No. 2	How Americans Learned to Listen	Reviews	David W. Stowe
Vol. 06 No. 4	Collision of Interests	Features	Jenry Morsman
Vol. 04 No. 4	The Pathfinder’s Lost Instruments: John C. Frémont’s cavalier attitude toward his scientific apparatus	Features	Tom Rea
Vol. 18 No. 1	Natural History in Two Dimensions	Object Lessons	Whitney Barlow Robles
Vol. 07 No. 4	Unpacking Winthrop’s Boxes	Object Lessons	Matthew Underwood

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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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