Tara Bynum
Phillis Wheatley's Pleasures
Reading good feeling in Phillis Wheatley's Poems and letters

A. Roger Ekirch
Kidnapped!
Tracking down a ripping good Irish-American tale

Hsuan L. Hsu
A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of Wu Chih Tien
Mark Twain and Wong Chin Foo

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
The Age of Phillis

Review by Stephen Aron
The French Connection
Jay Gitlin, The Bourgeois Frontier

Review by Ralph Bauer
Alchemical Errand into the Wilderness
Walter W. Woodward, Prospero's America

Review by Carol Faulkner
The Fertility Revolution
Susan Klepp, Revolutionary Conceptions

Review by Matthew Mason
Commonplace Conclusions on the Revolution and Bondage
Peter A. Dorsey, Common Bondage

Review by Margot Minardi
Beyond Crispus Attucks
Douglas R. Egerton, Death or Liberty

Jeffrey L. Pasley

Molly McCarthy
Redeeming the Almanac
Learning to Appreciate the iPhone of Early America

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

Kevin M. Levin
Civil War Site
A blogger's increasingly successful effort to open new fronts in the historical profession

Edward T. O'Donnell
Striking Scenes
Robert Koehler, The Strike (1886), and competing visions of labor-capital conflict in the Gilded Age

Arthur Rolston
The Common-place Web Library is an annotated selection of Web resources in American History. This month's link: The NBER/Maryland State Constitutions Project

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