Common-place: Previous Issues

Volume 9, Number 4: July, 2009
Special forum: Thomas Paine
Catherine E. Kelly Introduction: Making Sense of Thomas Paine
J. M. Opal Common Sense and Imperial Atrocity
Matteo Battistini Radical Revisions
Nathalie Caron Debating Freedom of Speech and Conscience
Marcy J. Dinius Best in Show
Benjamin C. Ray
"They Did Eat Red Bread Like Mans Flesh"
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Volume 9, Number 3: April, 2009
Special issue: Who Reads an Early American Book?
Edward Cahill The Other Panic of 1819
Max Cavitch Who Publishes an Early American Book?
Michael Drexler The Displacement of the American Novel
Hilary Emmett The Other Charlie Brown
Lisa M. Gordis "None Need Think Their Sympathy Wasted"
Alison L. LaCroix The Founders’ Fiction
Michael Winship Two Early American Bestsellers
Hilary E. Wyss Reading and Writing Indians
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Volume 9, Number 2: January, 2009
Ellen Carol DuBois Seneca Falls in Santa Cruz
Christopher Grasso Skepticism and Faith
Bryan F. Le Beau The Mind of the North in Pictures
Rafia Zafar Frederick Douglass and George Teamoh
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Volume 9, Number 1: October, 2008
Special Issue: Politics Issue 2008
Jim Cullen The Wright Stuff
Amy S. Greenberg The Politics of Martial Manhood
Reeve Huston What We Talk about When We Talk about Democracy Richard S. Newman Faith in the Ballot
Jonathan D. Sassi
“Great Questions of National Morality”
Ray Raphael Instructions
Christian G. Fritz America's Unknown Constitutional World
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Volume 8, Number 4: July, 2008
Trevor Burnard A Passion for Places
Jack Sexton Monticello
James Kessenides The Tropical Turn
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Volume 8, Number 3: April, 2008
Amanda Bowie Moniz A Radical Shrew in America
Leslie Stainton Players
Adam Arenson Freeing Dred Scott
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Volume 8, Number 2: January, 2008
Nancy Shoemaker Oil and Bone
John Fea Presbyterians in Love
Elizabeth Reis Perfect or Perverted?
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Volume 8, Number 1: October, 2007
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich How Betsy Ross Became Famous
Edward Larkin What is a Loyalist?
David S. Shields The Search for the Cure
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Volume 7, Number 4: July, 2007
Edward M. Griffin Stubborn Loyalists
Gilles Havard and Cécile Vidal Making New France New Again
Jacki Thompson Rand Why I Can’t Visit the National Museum of the American Indian
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Volume 7, Number 3: April, 2007
Special issue: Nineteenth-Century Graphics in America
Georgia B. Barnhill, Joshua Brown, and Ian Gordon Introduction: Seeing a Different Visual World
Barbara J. Balliet "Let Them Study as Men and Work as Women"
Gary L. Bunker The Art of Condescension
Marvin D. Jeter and Mark Cervenka H. J. Lewis, Free Man and Freeman Artist
Ellen Gruber Garvey Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Appropriation
Liz Hutter "Ho for Salt River!"
Catherine E. Kelly Face Value
Katharine Martinez The Dickinsons of Amherst Collect
Deirdre Murphy "Like standing on the edge of the world and looking away into heaven"
Jonathan Prude Engaging Urban Panoramas
Sue Rainey Picturesque California
Wendy Wick Reaves "Reading" Portrait Prints
Stephen P. Rice Photography in Engraving on Wood
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Volume 7, Number 2: January, 2007
Hannah Carlson Vulgar Things
Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe Frontiers of Body and Soul
Eran Shalev Dr. Warren's Ciceronian Toga
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Volume 7, Number 1: October, 2006
Annie Merrill Ingram Victorian Flower Power
Chris Evans How Sweden Went Global and Carolina Got its Hoes
Eric Wertheimer Insurance in Colonial America
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Volume 6, Number 4: July, 2006
Steven Biel Parson Weems Fights Fascists
Thomas Bahde The Common Dust of Potter’s Field
Jenry Morsman Collision of Interests
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Volume 6, Number 3: April, 2006
Special Issue: Money
Stephen Mihm and Mark Peterson Introduction
Joyce Appleby Money, Money, Money
Jennifer J. Baker Paper Money Gets Personal
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld Money of Moderate Size
Christine Desan Money Talks
R. G. Doty When Money Was Different
Eric Helleiner North American Monetary Union?
Benjamin H. Irvin Benjamin Franklin’s "Enriching Virtues"
Wim Klooster Have You Heard the News About the Silver Fleet?
Michael O’Malley Free Silver and the Constitution of Man
Mark Peterson Big Money Comes to Boston
Malcolm Rohrbough The California Gold Discoveries
Jeffrey Sklansky "A Bank on Parnassus"
Mark Valeri The Rise of Usury in Early New England
Robert E. Wright Currency Unions Past and Present
Michael Zakim Bookkeeping as Ideology

Volume 6, Number 2: January, 2006
George Rohrbacher Ken Kesey Meets Lewis and Clark
Tom Rea Hayden's Gaze
Mary Beth Norton Salem Witchcraft in the Classroom
Paul Lindholdt Giving Voices
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Volume 6, Number 1: October, 2005
Susan Juster What’s "Sacred" about Violence in Early America?
Thomas Augst Finding Barnum on the Internet
Peter Baldwin Mapping Time
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Volume 5, Number 4: July, 2005
Jeremy Ravi Mumford The Inca Priest on the Mormon Stage
W. Caleb McDaniel Blogging in the Early Republic
Gordon M. Sayre A Native American Scoops Lewis and Clark
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Volume 5, Number 3: April, 2005
Robert Strong Puritan Spectacle
Steven Biel Brother, Can You Buy a Salem Witch Death Warrant?
Martha L. Brogan Family Values
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Volume 5, Number 2: January, 2005
Special Issue: Pacific Routes
Christopher BenfeyHerman Melville and John Manjiro
Peter A. Coclanis Pacific Overtures
John Demos Viewpoints on the China Trade
Greg Dening Encompassing the Sea of Islands
Alan Frost James Mario Matra
Edward G. Gray Go East, Young Man
Steven W. Hackel The Competing Legacies of Junípero Serra
David Igler Malaspina off and on the American Northwest Coast
Harry Liebersohn A Radical Intellectual with Captain Cook
Paul Mapp Silver, Science, and Routes to the West
Gwenn A. Miller Russian Routes
June Namias First Meetings in the North Pacific
Jenny Newell Pacific Travelers
Mark Peterson Naming the Pacific
Damon Salesa Misimoa
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Volume 5, Number 1: October, 2004
Anne G. Myles Slaves in Algiers, Captives in Iraq
Christopher Lukasik The Physiognomy of Biometrics
Paul Heinegg and Henry B. Hoff Freedom in the Archives
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Volume 4, Number 4: July, 2004
Stephen Mihm Accept No Imitations
Tom Rea The Pathfinder’s Lost Instruments
Joanna Brooks Samson Occom at the Mohegan Sun
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Volume 4, Number 3: April, 2004
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Traveling with Twain in an Age of Simulations
Andie Tucher Soldiers’ Tales
Mark S. Weiner This "Miserable African"
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Volume 4, Number 2: January, 2004
Special Issue: A Cabinet of Curiosities
Ann Fabian and Joshua Brown Curiosity Did/Did Not Kill the Cat
Philip Gura How I Met and Dated Miss Emily Dickinson
Kenneth Lockridge Overcoming Nausea
Karen Halttunen "That great natural curiosity"
Stephen Rachman Curiosity and Cure
David Jaffee Curiosities Encountered
Kariann Yokota Not Written in Black and White
Marcus Wood Curious and Curiouser
Rachel Adams Caught Looking
Paul Semonin Peale's Mastadon
Karen Ordahl Kupperman Natural Curiosity
Benjamin Reiss The Springfield Somnambulist
Michael Sappol "Morbid curiosity"
Peter Buckley The Old Curiosity Shop and the New Antique Store
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Volume 4, Number 1: October, 2003
Robert A. Gross Commemorating Concord
James W. Cook Dancing across the Color Line
Jon T. Coleman Terms of Dismemberment
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Volume 3, Number 3: April, 2003
Rachel F. Seidman This Little House of Mine
Katherine Stebbins McCaffrey American Originals
Sharon Block Bringing Rapes to Court
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Volume 3, Number 2: January, 2003
Melissa Haley Storm of Blows
Kenneth Silverman Biography and Pseudobiography
Robert E. Bonner Star-spangled Sentiment
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Volume 3, Number 1: October, 2002
Daniel Penrice Can This Museum Be Saved?
David Henkin Copernicus at the Newsstand
Mark Peterson How (and Why) to Read Francis Parkman
Erik R. Seeman Spooky Streets
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Volume 2, Number 4: July, 2002
Roundtable discussion on the U.S. Constitution
    Rogers Smith Bush v. Gore
    James Banner Nearly Impossible to Repeal
    Joshua Micah Marshall Clinton Hating
    Jack Rakove Dr. Clio goes to Washington
    Michael Bellesiles Constitutional Meanings
    Joyce Malcolm Infringement
    Linda Kerber The Asymmetries of Citizenship
    Jan Lewis Why the Constitution Includes Women
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Volume 2, Number 3: April, 2002
Pamela H. Sacks: Gems in the Pasture
Mary Beth Norton: The Refugee's Revenge
Sheila O'Hare: Genealogy and History
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Volume 2, Number 2: January, 2002
Joshua Brown: The Hungry Eye
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: The Ends of History
Gregory Fried: True Pictures
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Volume 2, Number 1: October, 2001
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: A Bed Sheet in Beinecke
Bryan Waterman: Harry Potter, My Daughter, Elihu Smith, and Me
Eric Cheyfitz: Doctrines of Discovery
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Volume 1, Number 4: July, 2001
Representing Slavery: A roundtable discussion
    A.J. Verdelle The Truth of the Picnic
    Karen Sutton Confronting Slavery Face-to-face
    David Blight The Birth of a Genre
    Alex Bontemps Seeing Slavery
    Shane White, Graham White Hearing Slavery
Cheryl Finley: The Door of (No) Return
Aaron Garrett: Of Racism and Remembrance
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Volume 1, Number 3: March, 2001
Eric Stange: Shooting Back
Benjamin Filene: Searching for Florence
Nicole Cooley: Three Poems:
    Testimony: He or His Apparition
    The Mather Boys
    Witness, Recantation
Elizabeth Reis: The Trouble With Angels
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Volume 1, Number 2: January, 2001
Stephen Nissenbaum: There Arose Such a Clatter
Molly McCarthy: Consuming History?
Ann Fabian: Bones of Contention
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Volume 1, Number 1: September, 2000
Michael Bellesiles: Disarming American History
Scott Casper: Going Dutch
Fred Anderson, David Armitage, Brian Delay, Eliga H. Gould, and Paul Mapp: Roundtable: The Crucible of War
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