Joshua R Greenberg
@joshrgreenberg.bsky.social
Historian. Author: Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. Editor: commonplace.online. joshuargreenberg.com
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Do you have an idea for a short article (~2000-3000 words) on early American history/literature/art/material culture before 1900? We are accepting submissions at Commonplace or please reach out to me with a pitch or questions. More info below:🗃️
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Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times
Fugazi
De La Soul
Luna
Andrew Bird
Ride
Fugazi
De La Soul
Luna
Andrew Bird
Ride
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times
Fugazi
De La Soul
Luna
Andrew Bird
Ride
Fugazi
De La Soul
Luna
Andrew Bird
Ride
If you are waiting for holiday events, why not take a moment and read this excellent Jonathan Beecher Field piece from the Commonplace catalog. It looks at the widening gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics like #Thanksgiving. 🗃️ commonplace.online/article/come...
Come On, Lilgrim - Commonplace
The gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics is an enduring challenge for early Americanists. In the case of Thanksgiving, that gap is widening.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If you are waiting for holiday events, why not take a moment and read this excellent Jonathan Beecher Field piece from the Commonplace catalog. It looks at the widening gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics like #Thanksgiving. 🗃️ commonplace.online/article/come...
Happy Thanksgiving, however you celebrate. My wife is on service in her hospital today, so our plans are low-key, but I wanted to share this Civil War shinplaster with you. The simple note features a little turkey on the top. Georgia Rail Road & Banking Co., Augusta, GA, May 1, 1862.🗃️
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, however you celebrate. My wife is on service in her hospital today, so our plans are low-key, but I wanted to share this Civil War shinplaster with you. The simple note features a little turkey on the top. Georgia Rail Road & Banking Co., Augusta, GA, May 1, 1862.🗃️
With yesterday's pie debate and people baking for Thanksgiving, I remembered this Civil War era shinplaster from the owner of the short-lived Confederate States Bakery. It features a vignette of fruits and baked goods, including a pie with a slice missing. Louis Hubert, New Orleans, LA, $1, 186-.🗃️
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
With yesterday's pie debate and people baking for Thanksgiving, I remembered this Civil War era shinplaster from the owner of the short-lived Confederate States Bakery. It features a vignette of fruits and baked goods, including a pie with a slice missing. Louis Hubert, New Orleans, LA, $1, 186-.🗃️
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My daughter and I are making TikToks to contextualize the news with early American history stories. After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, our latest covers the 1834 NYC Election Riot and accusations of buying off foreign voters. Learn about Preserved Fish, the Kill-the-Damned-Irish Committee, and more.🗃️
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My daughter and I are making TikToks to contextualize the news with early American history stories. After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, our latest covers the 1834 NYC Election Riot and accusations of buying off foreign voters. Learn about Preserved Fish, the Kill-the-Damned-Irish Committee, and more.🗃️
Are you looking for last minute Thanksgiving recipes and want to avoid AI? Maybe check out this Commonplace piece of recipes excerpted from early American cookbooks. I can’t vouch for the Squirrel Soup. 🗃️
Favorite Receipts: Fancy Dishes and Kitchen Commonplaces - Commonplace
Bon appétit!
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November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
My daughter and I are making TikToks to contextualize the news with early American history stories. After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, our latest covers the 1834 NYC Election Riot and accusations of buying off foreign voters. Learn about Preserved Fish, the Kill-the-Damned-Irish Committee, and more.🗃️
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My daughter and I are making TikToks to contextualize the news with early American history stories. After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, our latest covers the 1834 NYC Election Riot and accusations of buying off foreign voters. Learn about Preserved Fish, the Kill-the-Damned-Irish Committee, and more.🗃️
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Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...
BOOK RAFFLE: ENTANGLED ALLIANCES
Ronaldo Angelo Johnson, Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). In conjunction with Ronaldo Johnson and Corne…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...
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Happy Birthday Zachary Taylor, the second Whig president who was a former general to die in office during their first term (William Henry Harrison). He appears here with a dour look in a portrait that is overshadowed by some playful cupids on the same note. Bank of Salisbury, MD, $5, March 4, 1848.🗃️
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Happy Birthday Zachary Taylor, the second Whig president who was a former general to die in office during their first term (William Henry Harrison). He appears here with a dour look in a portrait that is overshadowed by some playful cupids on the same note. Bank of Salisbury, MD, $5, March 4, 1848.🗃️
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Commonplace is fixed! The tech glitch has been addressed, so you can access your favorite articles without issue.
Probably a good time to remind people of my 2021 piece that looked at the history of Commonplace, tech issues, and Digital Humanites.🗃️
commonplace.online/article/a-ne...
Probably a good time to remind people of my 2021 piece that looked at the history of Commonplace, tech issues, and Digital Humanites.🗃️
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Editor’s Note – Please Refresh Your Browser For A New Commonplace - Commonplace
Before we move forward, it is a good time to look back on the history of Commonplace and its place in digital humanities over the last two decades.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Commonplace is fixed! The tech glitch has been addressed, so you can access your favorite articles without issue.
Probably a good time to remind people of my 2021 piece that looked at the history of Commonplace, tech issues, and Digital Humanites.🗃️
commonplace.online/article/a-ne...
Probably a good time to remind people of my 2021 piece that looked at the history of Commonplace, tech issues, and Digital Humanites.🗃️
commonplace.online/article/a-ne...
Happy Birthday Zachary Taylor, the second Whig president who was a former general to die in office during their first term (William Henry Harrison). He appears here with a dour look in a portrait that is overshadowed by some playful cupids on the same note. Bank of Salisbury, MD, $5, March 4, 1848.🗃️
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Happy Birthday Zachary Taylor, the second Whig president who was a former general to die in office during their first term (William Henry Harrison). He appears here with a dour look in a portrait that is overshadowed by some playful cupids on the same note. Bank of Salisbury, MD, $5, March 4, 1848.🗃️
Commonplace is fixed! The tech glitch has been addressed, so you can access your favorite articles without issue.
Probably a good time to remind people of my 2021 piece that looked at the history of Commonplace, tech issues, and Digital Humanites.🗃️
commonplace.online/article/a-ne...
Probably a good time to remind people of my 2021 piece that looked at the history of Commonplace, tech issues, and Digital Humanites.🗃️
commonplace.online/article/a-ne...
Editor’s Note – Please Refresh Your Browser For A New Commonplace - Commonplace
Before we move forward, it is a good time to look back on the history of Commonplace and its place in digital humanities over the last two decades.
commonplace.online
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Commonplace is fixed! The tech glitch has been addressed, so you can access your favorite articles without issue.
Probably a good time to remind people of my 2021 piece that looked at the history of Commonplace, tech issues, and Digital Humanites.🗃️
commonplace.online/article/a-ne...
Probably a good time to remind people of my 2021 piece that looked at the history of Commonplace, tech issues, and Digital Humanites.🗃️
commonplace.online/article/a-ne...
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
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Just finished reading this & it's terrific (like all of Nancy's work)
A great addition to my Indian Ocean class for multiple reasons: interdisciplinarity, multiple engagements with material culture & presentation of a microhistory of a woman as both a caring mother & an enslaver
A great addition to my Indian Ocean class for multiple reasons: interdisciplinarity, multiple engagements with material culture & presentation of a microhistory of a woman as both a caring mother & an enslaver
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Just finished reading this & it's terrific (like all of Nancy's work)
A great addition to my Indian Ocean class for multiple reasons: interdisciplinarity, multiple engagements with material culture & presentation of a microhistory of a woman as both a caring mother & an enslaver
A great addition to my Indian Ocean class for multiple reasons: interdisciplinarity, multiple engagements with material culture & presentation of a microhistory of a woman as both a caring mother & an enslaver
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The Mayflower Compact was signed on this day in 1620, so here we have a bank note with detailed center vignette depicted the Pilgrim landing with a small 1620 in the grass, a Native American behind a tree, and the Mayflower just off shore. The Old Colony Bank, Plymouth, MA, $10, May, 18--. 🗃️
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Mayflower Compact was signed on this day in 1620, so here we have a bank note with detailed center vignette depicted the Pilgrim landing with a small 1620 in the grass, a Native American behind a tree, and the Mayflower just off shore. The Old Colony Bank, Plymouth, MA, $10, May, 18--. 🗃️
Mamdani realizing that he can open city-run supermarkets in food deserts without pushback from Trump as long as he calls them Affordability Groceries.
Trump on Mamdani: "We had some interesting conversation and some of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have. But a big thing on cost. The new word is 'affordability.' Another word is just 'groceries.' It's sort of an old fashioned word but it's very accurate."
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Mamdani realizing that he can open city-run supermarkets in food deserts without pushback from Trump as long as he calls them Affordability Groceries.
The Mayflower Compact was signed on this day in 1620, so here we have a bank note with detailed center vignette depicted the Pilgrim landing with a small 1620 in the grass, a Native American behind a tree, and the Mayflower just off shore. The Old Colony Bank, Plymouth, MA, $10, May, 18--. 🗃️
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Mayflower Compact was signed on this day in 1620, so here we have a bank note with detailed center vignette depicted the Pilgrim landing with a small 1620 in the grass, a Native American behind a tree, and the Mayflower just off shore. The Old Colony Bank, Plymouth, MA, $10, May, 18--. 🗃️
We are aware of some technical issues with Commonplace (@commonplacejrnl.bsky.social) and will fix them shortly. Articles are all accessible, but may appear a bit different than usual. If you notice anything out of the ordinary or are having any problems with the site, please let me know. Thanks 🗃️
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We are aware of some technical issues with Commonplace (@commonplacejrnl.bsky.social) and will fix them shortly. Articles are all accessible, but may appear a bit different than usual. If you notice anything out of the ordinary or are having any problems with the site, please let me know. Thanks 🗃️
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My home state of New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights on this day in 1789, so today I am posting this funky, two-toned bank note from Newark. It features a vignette of Liberty with a Phrygian cap, shield, bald eagle, and (bag of gold?). State Bank of Newark, NJ, $1, 1864.🗃️
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My home state of New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights on this day in 1789, so today I am posting this funky, two-toned bank note from Newark. It features a vignette of Liberty with a Phrygian cap, shield, bald eagle, and (bag of gold?). State Bank of Newark, NJ, $1, 1864.🗃️
My home state of New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights on this day in 1789, so today I am posting this funky, two-toned bank note from Newark. It features a vignette of Liberty with a Phrygian cap, shield, bald eagle, and (bag of gold?). State Bank of Newark, NJ, $1, 1864.🗃️
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My home state of New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights on this day in 1789, so today I am posting this funky, two-toned bank note from Newark. It features a vignette of Liberty with a Phrygian cap, shield, bald eagle, and (bag of gold?). State Bank of Newark, NJ, $1, 1864.🗃️
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For #SHEAR #SHEAR2026, seeking panelists for session on economic issues circa 1780s-1790s. My paper: examining MA debates over property requirements etc. in the proposed 1778/1780 constitutions. Proposals due Dec 1st, please contact me [email protected] if interested.
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
For #SHEAR #SHEAR2026, seeking panelists for session on economic issues circa 1780s-1790s. My paper: examining MA debates over property requirements etc. in the proposed 1778/1780 constitutions. Proposals due Dec 1st, please contact me [email protected] if interested.
Natalie Green has fallen a long way since her time on The Facts of Life.
SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Natalie Green has fallen a long way since her time on The Facts of Life.
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With Charlotte on my mind, here is another bank note from the Queen City. It has lovely vignettes of men plowing, a women with flowers in her hair, and another in a classical/landscape scene, but I am particularly drawn to the hornet's nest at the bottom. Bank of Charlotte, NC, $5, August 2, 1860.
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
With Charlotte on my mind, here is another bank note from the Queen City. It has lovely vignettes of men plowing, a women with flowers in her hair, and another in a classical/landscape scene, but I am particularly drawn to the hornet's nest at the bottom. Bank of Charlotte, NC, $5, August 2, 1860.
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IT'S HERE! Our 2025 Holiday Sale starts today and runs through December 31!
Save 40% on available books on pennpress.org when you use code PENN-HOLIDAY25 at checkout.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
IT'S HERE! Our 2025 Holiday Sale starts today and runs through December 31!
Save 40% on available books on pennpress.org when you use code PENN-HOLIDAY25 at checkout.
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