Vivien Green Fryd
Lifting the veil of race at the U.S. Capitol
Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom

Natalie Joy
Cherokee Slaveholders and Radical Abolitionists
An unlikely alliance in antebellum America

Andrew Lawson
Men of Small Property
Harry Franco and Henry Ward Beecher in the antebellum market

Elisa Tamarkin
Reading for Relevance
Keeping up with the news

Robert Strong
from Bright Advent

Review by Charles R. Foy
Reorienting Bermuda's place in the eighteenth-century Atlantic
Michael J. Jarvis, In the Eye of All Trade

Review by Nichole George
Boston's revolution
Richard Archer, As If an Enemy's Country

Review by James J. Gigantino II
Unknown beginnings: Slavery in the North
C. S. Manegold, Ten Hills Farm

Jeffrey L. Pasley

Special Roundtable Ask the author

Brian P. Luskey
Dishonest clerks and the culture of capitalism
What's old is new again

Seth Rockman
Poverty, past and present
The high cost of being poor in America

Wendy A. Woloson
On borrowed time
Pawning past and present

Barbara Austen
Speed reading in the archives
Can less produce more?

David Jaffee
Anthony's Broadway on A Rainy Day
The stereograph comes to America

Erika Pérez
The Common-place Web Library is an annotated selection of Web resources in American History. This month's link: Early California Population Project

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