In "Harry Potter and Me," literary scholar Bryan Waterman uses the popular children's series as a jumping-off point for a poignant meditation on what it means to enter another person's life through his diary. And in this issue's "Tales from the Vault," Lloyd Pratt investigates the mystery of why 19th-century pamphlets were used as insulation beneath the flooring of the Nantucket Athenaeum while, in the "Common School," middle school teacher Tracy Melandro shows us how excited 21st-century children can get about the American Revolution -- when they draw it themselves. Finally, in "Publick Occurrences," Common-place's historical pundit Jeff Pasley argues that the nation's response to the horror of September 11th is not as unprecedented as some commentators would have us believe.