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Gems in the Pasture - Commonplace
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"[I]n late March, just days before Plimoth Plantation's village of 1627 was to come to life for the 2001 season, the museum's 130 head of livestock were rounded up and removed to a modern breeding barn at the back of the property."
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Freedom Seekers will show how all kinds of men, women, and children who escaped were important actors in the challenge not just to their own enslavement but to slavery more broadly.
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Slavery, Sectionalism, and the Constitution of 1787 - Commonplace
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The Constitution's compromises added an element of complexity to the Constitution that defies any effort to reduce it to Twitter-sized proslavery or antislavery soundbites that implicate or exonerate the founders.
on Sep 17
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Not “Three-Fifths of a Person”: What the Three-Fifths Clause Meant at Ratification - Commonplace
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Denials of Black humanity, free and enslaved, coexisted with explicit acknowledgment that enslaved Black people, though legally deemed “property,” were people.
on Sep 11
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For eight years, he skillfully combined traditional elite dining with an anti-monarchical ideology and Virginian sociability in a way that pleased his dinner guests and promoted his own agenda.
on Aug 17
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Prince and the other enslaved men had no fondness for their fetters and felt acutely the contradiction between American ideals and their condition.
on Aug 9
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Expanding the Boundaries of Reconstruction: Abolitionist Democracy from 1865-1919 - Commonplace
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Sinha also greatly enlarges the temporal boundaries students are accustomed to (1865 to 1877), by covering the end of the nineteenth century—including labor reform movements, the subjugation of Native American tribes in the West, and the rise of American imperialism—into the Progressive era with...
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In a sense, within an imperial context, humanitarian assistance inadvertently provided some Acadian women refugees with a platform unlike they had ever had before.
on Jun 26
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Dr. Warren's Ciceronian Toga - Commonplace
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If there was one thing Revolutionary orators knew, it was that if you wanted to move people to action, you had to touch something deep within them.
on Jun 25
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An American Flag in Japan: Townsend Harris and the materials of diplomacy, 1857-58 - Commonplace
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"This flag is the first foreign banner that was ever carried through the great city."
on Jun 25
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Bartleby’s Insights on Complex Embodiment for a Post-Pandemic World - Commonplace
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Four years on, a disability-informed reading of “Bartleby” seems to address even more urgently the crises our students face.
on Jun 5
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Sullivan Ballou’s Body: Battlefield Relic Hunting and the Fate of Soldiers’ Remains - Commonplace
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Confederates’ quest for bones thus connects to a bizarre history of the use, and misuse, of human remains. Bones from the Bull Run battlefield were taken as acts of domination and displayed as trophies of war. However macabre, human remains became part of the deeply variegated material culture of war.
on May 27
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A Modest Proposal - Commonplace
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More importantly, our misappropriation of “puritan” has allowed scholars to ignore and the public to misunderstand religion.
on May 21
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Was the Portrait of John Wilmot Destroyed in a Fire? - Commonplace
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I was shocked to find that British newspapers in early August 1863 described the Portrait being “entirely destroyed” by fire on a railway train.
on May 7
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Commemorating Concord - Commonplace
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"It may seem natural to us that in 1825 the children and grandchildren of minutemen would commemorate the fight at the North Bridge. It was not."
on Apr 19
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Caroline’s Clothes: The Life and Loss of an Antebellum Woman - Commonplace
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Centering material culture when researching those with scant documentary evidence of their lives can help fill in the gaps of their experience.
on Apr 16
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How Can Charles Brockden Brown Help Us Think about AI? - Commonplace
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Biloquism reminds us that the questions of agency posed by generative AI are also always questions of imitation and authenticity.
on Apr 2
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"Let's mingle our feelings": Gender and Collectivity in the Music of the Shaker West - Commonplace
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Although the Shakers' material culture has received the most modern attention, arguably the most vital facet of Shaker life was not the production of material objects, but rather the production of music.
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on Feb 29
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Gaps in the Record: Teaching with the Constitutional Convention - Commonplace
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Too often, historians turn to records of constituent or legislative deliberations from the eighteenth century as a source to draw quotations from early American political figures, without questioning their accuracy.
on Feb 29
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Washington in China: A Media History of Reverse Painting on Glass - Commonplace
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A meditation on early nineteenth-century Chinese portraits of George Washington.
on Feb 22
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Touching Sentiment: The Tactility of Nineteenth-Century Valentines - Commonplace
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Growing increasingly three-dimensional and more ornate with every added layer of material, sentimental or “fancy” valentines, as they were called, were harbingers of hope, fondness, and desire.
on Feb 14
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Thirteen Sent, Ten Received: Account Books, Valentines, and Social Capital - Commonplace
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Salisbury's purchases clearly evoke the image of a young man concerned with meeting the expectations of Worcester's privileged class.
on Feb 13
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Tom Paine’s Bridge - Commonplace
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We do not often think of Paine as a revolutionary inventor. But in a very real sense, that is what he believed himself to be.
on Feb 9
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Hands of the Red Scared - Commonplace
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Again and again, the filmstrip shows its viewers images of women in states of distress.
on Feb 6
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Print Culture and Popular History in the Era of the U.S.-Mexican War - Commonplace
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The racial agenda preserved in nineteenth-century print culture resonates with contemporary U.S.-Mexico relations.
on Feb 2
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Jigsaw Puzzle: Jumbling the Pieces of Stowe’s Story - Commonplace
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Understanding puzzles as agents of disorder runs counter to a common interpretation that associates puzzles with the quest for and ultimate affirmation of order.
on Jan 29
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Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing and Native American Community - Commonplace
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Recent scholarship reminds us how eighteenth-century letters were produced and consumed very differently than we might imagine, certainly in the Native communities of New England.
on Jan 24
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Ink covers much of the wood work, various parts have been gouged by nails or other sharp tools, the bar handle has been smoothed by the hands of many journeymen printers, and overall the press has the worn but proud look of an old veteran.
on Jan 23
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Arthur Mervyn, Bankrupt - Commonplace
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An eighteenth-century novel explores how American society handles the collateral damage of capitalism—and who deserves a second chance.
on Jan 23
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Mason-Dixon Lines - Commonplace
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The boundary lines preceding Mason and Dixon, everybody knows, were a sham. What’s to follow, despite the weighty authority of astronomical science, will be no better.
on Jan 23
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Common Sense and Imperial Atrocity - Commonplace
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Beneath and between its profoundly conservative and aristocratic institutions, Paine's Britain was a rude, irreverent place where power was fragmented and liberty celebrated.
on Jan 21
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Saline Survivance: The Life of Salt and the Limits of Colonization in the Southwest - Commonplace
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Once highly valuable, salt affords a new look at life, environment, and sovereignty in the southwest borderlands.
on Jan 3
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Was Edgar Allan Poe a Habitual Opium User? - Commonplace
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While Poe was likely using opium, the efforts to keep him quiet suggest that he was also drinking.
on Jan 3
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Editor’s Note – Submission Going Down, Down, Dragging me Down* - Commonplace
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Happy New Year!
on Jan 2
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George's Story: Dolls and the Material Culture of Christmas - Commonplace
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The growing popularity of dolls had both ideological and pragmatic roots in the emerging middle class.
on Dec 25
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Words to Weapons: A History of the Abolition Movement from Persuasion to Force - Commonplace
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With Force and Freedom, Carter Jackson makes a stimulating and insightful debut which will have a major influence on abolition movement scholarship.
on Dec 19
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On Voter Fraud and the Petticoat Electors of New Jersey - Commonplace
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WERE EARLY AMERICAN ELECTIONS FOR WHITE MEN ONLY?
on Dec 18
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The Brown Brothers had a Sister - Commonplace
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Women’s work is often hidden or marginal within historical records that were meant to show men’s economic and political lives.
on Dec 5
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Favorite Receipts: Fancy Dishes and Kitchen Commonplaces - Commonplace
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Bon appétit!
on Nov 22
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Come On, Lilgrim - Commonplace
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The gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics is an enduring challenge for early Americanists. In the case of Thanksgiving, that gap is widening.
on Nov 21
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How to Read a Book: The X-Ray Method for Achieving a Sustainable “Book-Life Balance” - Commonplace
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This is why you need a plan: to read attentively but efficiently, and sustainably, without surrendering your book-life balance.
on Nov 8
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"They Did Eat Red Bread Like Mans Flesh" - Commonplace
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Under the specter of witches' meetings said to be aimed at destroying the village ministry, an unprecedented and momentous claim, the New England tradition of legal caution towards witchcraft accusations completely evaporated.
on Oct 31
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Constant attacks from weather, in addition to the mechanization of landscaping, conspire to destroy these stones as they once stood. Ironically, New England's historic cemeteries are dying.
on Oct 30
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Lost no More: Recovering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s* Forest Leaves - Commonplace
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's first book of poems had been considered lost to history for well over one hundred years. Johanna Ortner shares the tale of recovering this incredibly valuable text--and shares the text itself--with the readers of Common-place.
on Oct 28
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Salem Witchcraft in the Classroom - Commonplace
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In the end, four papers stood out as making truly original contributions to scholarship on Salem witchcraft.
on Oct 27