objects
Seeing Slavery in Eighteenth-Century American Salt-Glazed Stoneware: Richard Williams’ Savings Bank
objects
Was the Portrait of John Wilmot Destroyed in a Fire?
objects
Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Hands of the Red Scared
objects
A Bell’s Journey through Texas History
objects
Tracing Material Culture Histories: A Miniature Mokuk within Networks of Indigenous Resistance
teach
The Peculiar Game of the Yankee Peddler—Or what do you buy?
objects
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Jigsaw Puzzle: Jumbling the Pieces of Stowe’s Story
objects
The Fabric of Our Nation: A Nineteenth-Century Night Shirt Reveals the Complex Value of Material Objects
learn
Collecting for Salvation: American Antiquarianism and the Natural History of the East
objects
A Minister’s Desk? Reanimating Space, Rethinking Furniture
objects
The Story the Torn Gown Told: Forensic Evidence and Lanah Sawyer’s Prosecution of Henry Bedlow for Rape, New York, 1793
teach
Can We Scan the Piggin?: Revisiting Early American Material Culture and Campus Collections across Pandemic Time
objects
“A Very Curious Religious Game”: Spiritual Maps and Material Culture in Early America
creative writing
Excerpts From “Kingdom”
objects
Sullivan Ballou’s Body: Battlefield Relic Hunting and the Fate of Soldiers’ Remains
objects
Benedict Arnold’s House: The Making and Unmaking of an American
learn
Editor’s Note – Please Refresh Your Browser For A New Commonplace
objects
Blogging Moby-Dick: An artist illustrates every page of The Whale
teach
Ben Franklin’s World
objects
Relics, Reverence, and Relevance
learn
Labor Day in America: Or, the Day That is Not in May
objects
Object Lesson: Pompe Stevens, Enslaved Artisan
reviews
Frenchified Fashions and Republican Simplicity
objects
Stitching Empire: Cecilia Lewis’s Map of the United States, 1809
objects
Searching for Smut: Hot on the trail of Anthony Comstock (1844-1915)
learn
Digging for Dirt: Reading Blackmail in the Antebellum Archive
learn
An American Flag in Japan: Townsend Harris and the materials of diplomacy, 1857-58
learn
“Nearest a Kin to Fisher” Tavern Keepers as Common Lawyers
objects
A Fashion for Abolition
learn
Will the Real Henry “Box” Brown Please Stand Up?
objects
Franklin’s Gown: Portraying the Politics of Homespun Silk
objects
Vulgar Things: James Fenimore Cooper’s “clairvoyant” Pocket Handkerchief
objects
Impressions of Tar and Feathers: The “New American Suit” in Mezzotint, 1774-84
teach
Dressing for History: Teaching in Eighteenth-Century Clothing
reviews
Redressing Early America
learn
Puritan Scrabble: Games of Grief in Early New England
learn
The Pathfinder’s Lost Instruments: John C. Frémont’s cavalier attitude toward his scientific apparatus
objects
Natural History in Two Dimensions
objects
Unpacking Winthrop’s Boxes
learn
The Search for the Cure
objects
The Sideboard Takes Center Stage
objects
“If I had ye gift of tongue”: The Obsession with Keys in the Seventeenth Century
objects
The Dickinsons of Amherst Collect
objects
Benjamin Franklin Slept Here
objects
Indians, Objects, and Revolution
objects
Flora and Femininity: Gender and Botany in Early America
objects
Cross-Stitched History: Artistry and ambition in Christina Arcularius’s Tree of Knowledge sampler
objects
“Feed on Humane Flesh and Blood? Strang mess!”: A Puritan Communion Cup
objects
Holy Man, Holy Head: John Wesley’s Busts in the Atlantic World
reviews
Bibles, American Style
objects
Our Mayflower Bible
learn
Accept No Imitations: The campaign against counterfeits, past and present
objects
Brother, Can You Buy a Salem Witch Death Warrant?: A story of forgery in the Great Depression
reviews
Deceiving and Undeceiving in Early American Art and Culture
objects
“Morbid curiosity”: The Decline and Fall of the Popular Anatomical Museum
objects
Family Albums of War: Carte de Visite Collections in the Civil War Era
objects
“The limb in my Fathers arms:” The Environmental and Material Creation of a Treaty Elm Relic
learn
Oil and Bone: Whale Consumption in the Lives of Plymouth Colonists
learn
Market Manipulation, the 1780s Way: What a Letter to a Flour Dealer Tells Us About the Early Modern Political Economy
objects
Touching Sentiment: The Tactility of Nineteenth-Century Valentines
objects
Thirteen Sent, Ten Received: Account Books, Valentines, and Social Capital
objects
Winterthur XXX: Searching for early American erotica
objects
Washington in China: A Media History of Reverse Painting on Glass
objects
Curiosity and Cure: Peter Parker’s patients, Lam Qua’s portraits
objects
Pressing Matters: An experiential study of the Isaiah Thomas printing press at the American Antiquarian Society
learn
Mapping Time
learn
The Sound and Look of Time: Bells and Clocks in Philadelphia
learn
We Won’t Leave Until We Get Some
objects
George’s Story: Dolls and the Material Culture of Christmas
objects
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
learn
The Unbearable Taste: Early African American Foodways
learn
Favorite Receipts: Fancy Dishes and Kitchen Commonplaces
objects
Whitman’s Cane: Disability, Prosthesis, and Whitman’s Leaning Poise
objects
Object Lesson: Desire Tripp and Her Arm’s Gravestone
objects
Come On, Lilgrim
objects
Self-Fashioning in Sarah Goodridge’s Self-Portraits
objects
Best in Show
objects