
Editor’s Note: News, Newspapers, and the Meaning of Revise and Resubmit

Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond

How Can Charles Brockden Brown Help Us Think about AI?

Editor’s Note – Submission Going Down, Down, Dragging me Down*

Editor’s Note—Birds, Bots, and Elephants: Commonplace and Social Media

Commonplace Call for Submissions

Editor’s Note – Please Refresh Your Browser For A New Commonplace

Blogging Moby-Dick: An artist illustrates every page of The Whale

Ben Franklin’s World

Commonplace Call for Submissions and Applications

Silence Dogood Rides Again: Blogging the frontiers of early American history

Graduate Training: Where Digital Scholarship and Early American Studies Meet

Alive with the Sound of Music

Finding Barnum on the Internet

Digital History

Food History on the Web

British Virginia

“It is finished” can never be said of us: The New Dickinson Electronic Archives

The Quilt Index

A Century of Lawmaking For a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875

Missouri Digital Heritage

The Bethlehem Digital History Project

University of Nebraska’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Projects and Publications

Examination Days: The New York African Free School Collection

The Mark Twain Project Online and Mark Twain in His Times

The Huntington Library’s “Early California Population Project”

The Digital Paxton

The Feminist Forebears of Affective Design

Early Native American Digital Collections

Measuring Literature: Digital Humanities, Behavioral Economics, and the Problem of Data in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century

Constructing the Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD): An Invitation to Share and Use Data about Early America

Gaming the Revolution: A Review of Assassin’s Creed 3

Mapping History: Reflections on the Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861 Digital Project

The Pocahontas Archive

Liberating History: Reflections on Rights, Rituals and the Colored Conventions Project

Convention Minutes and Unconventional Proceedings

What is Evans-TCP?

Digital Encyclopedias and Opportunities

Reading Our E-mail

Closing the Books

Historical Maps Online

Civil War Site: A blogger’s increasingly successful effort to open new fronts in the historical profession

The National History Education Clearinghouse

Instructions for the Young: Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks

The Emilie Davis Diaries Project

Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project

American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850

Editor’s Note: 13 for 13

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century

Reviving the Folk Revival

Expanded Column: The Digital Evans

Welcome to the New Common-place

Blogging, with Pickles: Adventures (and misadventures) in the quest to capture the flavor of everyday school life

Doing More with Digitization

Conference Video Highlights

France in America – La France en Amérique

Virtual Jamestown

The Massachusetts Historical Society

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture

The Iroquois on the Web

Publick Occurrences 2.0 January- April 2009

Featured Links: The Geography of Slavery and more

A Journey over the Mountains

American Originals

An MRI of Early America

From Movable Type to Searchable Text

Early American History

A Note on the Common-place Redesign

E-Abolitionists

Telling Stories Out of School: Primary sources and the Internet

Commonplace Style Sheet

Music and Meaning In Early America: Resources for Further Reading and Listening

Talk of the Future

Lampi’s Election Notes

A Hard Act is Good to Follow

The Ends of History

The Politics Issue Cometh

Genealogy and History

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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.
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Joshua R. Greenberg, editor
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