Susan Branson
Flora and Femininity
Gender and Botany in Early America

Victoria Cain
Professor Carter's Collection
Amateur Naturalists and their Museums

Gregory Nobles
John James Audubon, the American "Hunter-Naturalist"
A New Species of Scientist for the New Nation

Emily Redman
Fiat Lux, or Who Invited Thomas Edison to the Tea Party?
Shedding historical light on the light bulb controversy dividing America

Essay by Elisa Tamarkin
Tocqueville, Falling for America
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America

Matthew Bowman
The Lincoln We Hope For
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life

J. I. Little
The Not-So-Civil War
Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812

Review by Johann N. Neem
Between Demo and Aristo: Civil Society and the "Revolutionary Settlement" in New York's Columbia County
John L. Brooke, Columbia Rising

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Jon Thompson
Poems from Strange Country

Josh Brown

A graphic novel in several parts

Jeffrey L. Pasley

Matt Cohen
Indigenous Networks
Rethinking Print Culture through Early American Media

Darcy R. Fryer
Making Sense of the Beginning
Teaching Early America in the U.S. History Survey

Sarah Anne Carter
Stuffed into a Parakeet
Speculations on Alexander Wilson's "Faithful Companion," Specimen MCZ 67853

Courtney Fullilove
"Dead Letters—By a Resurrectionist"
Liberty and Surveillance in the Tombs of the U.S. Post Office

Ryan A. Ross
The Common-place Web Library is an annotated selection of Web resources in American History. This month's link: The Mark Twain Project Online and Mark Twain in His Times