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New Today in Common-place
| Website Date: | 2003-01-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2003-01-02 |
| Announcement ID: |
132270 |
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Today Common-place publishes “Biography and Pseudobiography,” a reflection on the act of writing lives by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Kenneth Silverman; “Storm of Blows,” a story about the art of boxing in nineteenth-century New Orleans, by Melissa Haley, manuscript archivist at the New-York Historical Society; and “Reviving the Folk Revival,” J.M. Mancini’s investigation of the faddish celebration of American roots music. Common-place’s January issue also includes a review essay on Salem witchcraft by University of Michigan historian Carol Karlsen, and columns and features on the digitizing of George Washington’s papers, Americans’ devotion to the national flag, and the world of female miniature portrait painters. Ring in the New Year with a look at the past, at www.common-place.org.
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