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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 11 No. 2.5	Rest Assured	Reviews	Sean H. Vanatta
Vol. 10 No. 2	“All in my eye!”: James Akin and his Newburyport social caricatures	Object Lessons	Allison Stagg
Vol. 16 No. 2.5	Do Clothes Make the Man?	Reviews	Martha Tomhave Blauvelt
Vol. 16 No. 2.5	Corporations, what are they good for?	Reviews	Nancy Isenberg
Vol. 16 No. 2.5	Reconsidering George Whitefield at 300	Reviews	Kyle Roberts
Vol. 13 No. 4	An Americana of Tools and Manners Eric Sloane’s Nostalgia	Features	Abigail Walthausen
Vol. 12 No. 1	Menageries and Markets: The Zoological Institute tours Jacksonian America	Object Lessons	Matthew Wittmann
Vol. 16 No. 2	From the Memoirs of Capt. Roger Clap circa 1680, Boston	Poetic Research	Austin Segrest
Vol. 16 No. 2	The Power of Association: Re-examining Philadelphia’s Colonial Civic Culture	Ask the Author	Jessica Choppin Roney
Vol. 16 No. 2	Searching for Frances	On the Recovery of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Forest Leaves: Archives, Origins and African American Literature	Carla L. Peterson

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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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