Jack Larkin
What He Did For Love
David Claypoole Johnston and the Boston Irish, 1825-1865

Marion Rust
An 'Epidemical Distemper'
Conversion and Disorder, then and now

Amanda Taylor-Montoya
There is No There There
Women and Intermarriage in the Southwestern Borderlands

Megan Walsh
Diagram of a Fugitive Slave Narrative

Tyler Boulware
The Indians' Hidden World
Tom Arne Midtrød, The Memory of All Ancient Customs

John Haddad
Chinese Market; Global Trade
Eric Jay Dolin, When America First Met China

Lisa Rosner
Public Health and Public Good
Simon Finger, The Contagious City

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Browse the Common-place reviews index
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Jeffrey L. Pasley

Recovering and teaching neglected or forgotten texts

Joshua Brown

A graphic novel in several parts

Diana Arterian
Poems

Lucia Stanton
A Life's Work at Monticello
Thomas Jefferson, Enslaved Families, and a Historian

Nicole Belolan
Object Lesson
Desire Tripp and Her Arm's Gravestone

Caitlin Galante-DeAngelis Hopkins
Object Lesson
Pompe Stevens, Enslaved Artisan

Michelle Marchetti Coughlin
Mehetabel Chandler Coit
Finding "Her Book"

Curtis Urban
The Common-place Web Library is an annotated selection of Web resources in American History. This month's link: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875