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Flowers of the Sea: Marine Specimens at the Anti-Slavery Bazaar

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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

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A Bell’s Journey through Texas History

objects
Tracing Material Culture Histories: A Miniature Mokuk within Networks of Indigenous Resistance

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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

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The Fabric of Our Nation: A Nineteenth-Century Night Shirt Reveals the Complex Value of Material Objects

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Collecting for Salvation: American Antiquarianism and the Natural History of the East

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A Minister’s Desk? Reanimating Space, Rethinking Furniture

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The Story the Torn Gown Told: Forensic Evidence and Lanah Sawyer’s Prosecution of Henry Bedlow for Rape, New York, 1793

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Can We Scan the Piggin?: Revisiting Early American Material Culture and Campus Collections across Pandemic Time

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“A Very Curious Religious Game”: Spiritual Maps and Material Culture in Early America

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Excerpts From “Kingdom”

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Sullivan Ballou’s Body: Battlefield Relic Hunting and the Fate of Soldiers’ Remains

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Benedict Arnold’s House: The Making and Unmaking of an American

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

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

teach
Ben Franklin’s World

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Relics, Reverence, and Relevance

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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

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Searching for Smut: Hot on the trail of Anthony Comstock (1844-1915)

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Digging for Dirt: Reading Blackmail in the Antebellum Archive

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An American Flag in Japan: Townsend Harris and the materials of diplomacy, 1857-58

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“Nearest a Kin to Fisher” Tavern Keepers as Common Lawyers

objects
A Fashion for Abolition

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Will the Real Henry “Box” Brown Please Stand Up?

objects
Franklin’s Gown: Portraying the Politics of Homespun Silk

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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

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Puritan Scrabble: Games of Grief in Early New England

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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

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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

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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

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“The limb in my Fathers arms:” The Environmental and Material Creation of a Treaty Elm Relic

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Oil and Bone: Whale Consumption in the Lives of Plymouth Colonists

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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

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Thirteen Sent, Ten Received: Account Books, Valentines, and Social Capital

objects
Winterthur XXX: Searching for early American erotica

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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

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The Sound and Look of Time: Bells and Clocks in Philadelphia

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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

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The Unbearable Taste: Early African American Foodways

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