American Antiquarian Society: Autumn 2012 Edition of Common Place Published

This month, Common-place is delighted to republish a long lost chapter from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s serialized temperance novel, Sowing and Reaping (1876).  

With a fine (and undergraduate-friendly) introduction by literary historian Eric Gardner, who discovered the chapter in the American Antiquarian Society’s serials collection, this is a must read for anyone interested in African American history and letters.  

Now that we’ve whetted your appetite for nineteenth-century literary culture, you might want to follow Jeffery D. Groves in his quest to build an exact replica of Isaiah Thomas’s storied printing press, no power tools allowed.  

And before you dutifully turn your clocks back this weekend, take a look at Alexis McCrossen’s fascinating account of a century of timekeeping in Philadelphia.  

These stories, and more, can be found here.