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In honor of the not guilty verdict in Sean Dunn’s Sandwichgate trial, here is a note from Sandwich, NH made by Waterman Ormsby in his elaborate unit system of bank note design. Carroll County Bank, Sandwich, NH, $1, Jan 1, 1855. 🗃️

In honor of the not guilty verdict in Sean Dunn’s Sandwichgate trial, here is a note from Sandwich, NH made by Waterman Ormsby in his elaborate unit system of bank note design. Carroll County Bank, Sandwich, NH, $1, Jan 1, 1855. 🗃️

Good evening, moon.

NEW on Commonplace: Halloween may be over but the time is always right to talk about historic memory! In a new essay, historian Carla Pestana searches for the witches in witch city and considers what is lost when history and Halloween tourism collide: commonplace.online/article/sale...

Election Day bank note: I will bet one thousand dollars that G. B. McClellan will have won a majority in the state of Maryland. Signed George F. Laney Port Deposit Post, ML, If Mr. Laney wants to get sheet of his thousand dollars he will please bring that amount one thousand dollars to E. Uhler.

Election Day bank note: I will bet one thousand dollars that G. B. McClellan will have won a majority in the state of Maryland. Signed George F. Laney Port Deposit Post, ML, If Mr. Laney wants to get sheet of his thousand dollars he will please bring that amount one thousand dollars to E. Uhler.

There is another witch problem in Salem, and it is not the one you think writes historian Carla Pestana after a recent visit. Check out her new piece in Commonplace here: 🧙‍♀️🗃️ commonplace.online/article/sale...

My daughter and I have started making a weekly early American history TikTok that uses something from the news as a jumping off point. The first one covered Pat Lyon and the Bank of PA Heist in 1798. For Halloween this week we discuss grave robbing and the 1788 Doctor’s Riot. Check it out: 🗃️

Happy Birthday, Artemis! He is turning 6 today (we aren't really sure, but it is the anniversary of the day we brought him home from the Pasadena Humane Society). Birthday #Caturday. 🐈‍⬛🎂

Bonus spooky material from the Commonplace vault for Halloween. Check out Erik Seeman's look at ghost tours around the country from 2002. Unfortunately, many of the tour websites have zombie links now (oooh, scary for Halloween), but a couple still work. 👻🗃️ commonplace.online/article/spoo...

Happy Halloween! It is the end of my series of spooky Commonplace early American history, so here is our Salem Witch Trials subject page. Articles and reviews from Mary Beth Norton, Benjamin Ray, Carol Karlson, and more. More Salem content coming next week! 🧙‍♀️🗃️ commonplace.online/topic/salem-...

Most of my Halloween revolves around the treats, so today's obsolete paper money is an advertising note from the late 1860s-1870s. Issued by the First National Candy Bank, it championed Dr. Carter's cough candy for colds, coughs, and sore throats. It was apparently the people's friend. 🗃️

For Halloween, new music from Florence + the Machine - Witch Dance www.youtube.com/watch?v=44JU...

Most of my Halloween revolves around the treats, so today's obsolete paper money is an advertising note from the late 1860s-1870s. Issued by the First National Candy Bank, it championed Dr. Carter's cough candy for colds, coughs, and sore throats. It was apparently the people's friend. 🗃️

Bonus spooky material from the Commonplace vault for Halloween. Check out Erik Seeman's look at ghost tours around the country from 2002. Unfortunately, many of the tour websites have zombie links now (oooh, scary for Halloween), but a couple still work. 👻🗃️ commonplace.online/article/spoo...

Happy Halloween! It is the end of my series of spooky Commonplace early American history, so here is our Salem Witch Trials subject page. Articles and reviews from Mary Beth Norton, Benjamin Ray, Carol Karlson, and more. More Salem content coming next week! 🧙‍♀️🗃️ commonplace.online/topic/salem-...

Halloween is tomorrow, so I am continuing my series of spooky Commonplace articles from the back catalog. Today, let's turn to a piece by Edward Blum, who checks in on the appearance of Satan in antebellum American politics and religion. Check it out here: 👿🗃️ commonplace.online/article/king...

Happy Birthday, John Adams! The second president did not feature on as many bank notes as the sixth, his son John Quincy Adams, but he is seen here on a bill from bank named after Adams' Federalist rival Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton Bank, North Scituate, RI, $2, 184-.🗃️

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Happy Birthday, John Adams! The second president did not feature on as many bank notes as the sixth, his son John Quincy Adams, but he is seen here on a bill from bank named after Adams' Federalist rival Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton Bank, North Scituate, RI, $2, 184-.🗃️

Halloween is tomorrow, so I am continuing my series of spooky Commonplace articles from the back catalog. Today, let's turn to a piece by Edward Blum, who checks in on the appearance of Satan in antebellum American politics and religion. Check it out here: 👿🗃️ commonplace.online/article/king...

Halloween is in two days, so I am continuing to look back on spooky early American history articles in Commonplace. Today we see Nicole Belolan's account of a 1786 gravestone in Newport that commemorated Desire Tripp’s amputated arm. Check it out here: 🪦🗃️ commonplace.online/article/obje...

Change one letter, ruin a candy: Pork Peppermint Pattie

Halloween is in two days, so I am continuing to look back on spooky early American history articles in Commonplace. Today we see Nicole Belolan's account of a 1786 gravestone in Newport that commemorated Desire Tripp’s amputated arm. Check it out here: 🪦🗃️ commonplace.online/article/obje...

Continuing our series on creepy or spooky early American history articles in Commonplace in the lead up to Halloween, today we have a fascinating piece by James Broomall on battlefield relic hunting and the use of body remains during the Civil War: 💀🗃️ commonplace.online/article/sull...

My daughter and I are playing around with a new TikTok account that posts a weekly early American history video inspired by something in the news. Here is our first one about the 1798 Bank of Pennsylvania heist in the wake of the Louvre theft. Check it out: 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/@historywee/...

Continuing our series on creepy or spooky early American history articles in Commonplace in the lead up to Halloween, today we have a fascinating piece by James Broomall on battlefield relic hunting and the use of body remains during the Civil War: 💀🗃️ commonplace.online/article/sull...

My daughter and I are playing around with a new TikTok account that posts a weekly early American history video inspired by something in the news. Here is our first one about the 1798 Bank of Pennsylvania heist in the wake of the Louvre theft. Check it out: 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/@historywee/...

It is Halloween this Friday, so I will be posting some spooky readings on early America from Commonplace. Let's start with Hsuan Hsu's piece on Mark Twain and his obsession with zombies. 🧟 🗃️ commonplace.online/article/mark...

I see that it is #NationalBlackCatDay and while Artemis is a tuxedo cat and doesn't qualify, here is a shinplaster with a sweet vignette of a black cat curled up on a girl's lap. C. Harrison & Co., Irondale, MO, $2 in merchandise, 1870.

I see that it is #NationalBlackCatDay and while Artemis is a tuxedo cat and doesn't qualify, here is a shinplaster with a sweet vignette of a black cat curled up on a girl's lap. C. Harrison & Co., Irondale, MO, $2 in merchandise, 1870.

It is Halloween this Friday, so I will be posting some spooky readings on early America from Commonplace. Let's start with Hsuan Hsu's piece on Mark Twain and his obsession with zombies. 🧟 🗃️ commonplace.online/article/mark...

The Erie Canal was officially completed on this day 200 years ago, so here is a bank note from Albany where it began. It features a lovely canal vignette and portrait of DeWitt Clinton who ushered through the 363 mile project as governor of New York. Merchants Bank of Albany, NY, $1, July 3, 1862. 🗃️

The Erie Canal was officially completed on this day 200 years ago, so here is a bank note from Albany where it began. It features a lovely canal vignette and portrait of DeWitt Clinton who ushered through the 363 mile project as governor of New York. Merchants Bank of Albany, NY, $1, July 3, 1862. 🗃️

Just had what my family refers to as a plate of shrimp moment (via Repo Man). This came up on my feed as my computer was playing the Inspiral Carpets cover of Tainted Love. R.I.P. Dave Ball.

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In support of today's #NoKings inflatable animals, here is the vignette, The Battle of the Frogs. It commemorated a 1754 event in Windham, CT where a loud noise feared to be French or Native soldiers turned out to be a pond with thousands of dead bullfrogs. Windham Bank, CT, $1, April 1, 1862.🗃️

In support of today's #NoKings inflatable animals, here is the vignette, The Battle of the Frogs. It commemorated a 1754 event in Windham, CT where a loud noise feared to be French or Native soldiers turned out to be a pond with thousands of dead bullfrogs. Windham Bank, CT, $1, April 1, 1862.🗃️

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My birthday is this weekend, so here is a beautiful vignette from my hometown of West Orange, New Jersey. It is the gatehouse to Llewellyn Park, one of nation's first planned residential communities, opened in the 1850s. Mercantile Bank, Orange, NJ, $1, June 2, 1862. (w/bonus 1857 map of community)

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My birthday is this weekend, so here is a beautiful vignette from my hometown of West Orange, New Jersey. It is the gatehouse to Llewellyn Park, one of nation's first planned residential communities, opened in the 1850s. Mercantile Bank, Orange, NJ, $1, June 2, 1862. (w/bonus 1857 map of community)

Happy Birthday to Noah Webster who published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806 and An American Dictionary of the English Language first in 1828. He appeared on this bank note from a short-lived, Panic of 1837 safety fund institution in Michigan. Bank of Brest, MI, $5, 183-.🗃️

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Happy Birthday to Noah Webster who published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806 and An American Dictionary of the English Language first in 1828. He appeared on this bank note from a short-lived, Panic of 1837 safety fund institution in Michigan. Bank of Brest, MI, $5, 183-.🗃️

TOMORROW: Author Jordan B. Smith will discuss his new book THE INVENTION OF RUM, which explores the history of rum from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world, in a virtual event hosted by @jcblibrary.bsky.social! bit.ly/43dxv8o