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Having survived the summer of conferences, the editors of Uncommon Sense thank all the authors who have so patiently waited to see their excellent contributions in print. This issue takes us into the trials and triumphs of scholarship around the world. Sarah E. Reeder and Marjoleine Kars describe their work with underused sources in widely different geographic locations—for Sarah, the architecture of the American South as photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston for the Carnegie Survey, and for Marjoleine, the artifacts of plantation culture and slave resistance in Guyana. Even farther afield, Mike McDonnell recounts the ongoing adventures of scholars of early America in Australia, and Rebecca Wrenn takes us back half a century for a sail up the James River with the 1958 Institute Council. We are enormously pleased to be able to share with our readers Joseph Ushie’s email r egarding his hopes and those of other recipients of travel scholarships to the Omohundro Institute’s Ghana conference for the development of a pan-African network of historians. Stanley N. Katz, Robert Middlekauff, and Sheila Skemp have gracefully celebrated Leonard Levy and Winthrop Jordan, two historians whose scholarship will continue to inspire and enlighten even though their lives have ended. This issue concludes with the names of those who have so generously contributed to the Institute’s work throughout the year by becoming Associates for 2007. We could not do what we do without you, and we are deeply grateful for your support.

Our next issue will come your way this winter, and we invite you to keep Uncommon Sense in mind as a means of sharing your interesting work with your early American colleagues. The deadline for submissions is December 1. We look forward to hearing from you.

Finally, careful readers may notice that the Co-Editor’s name has changed again. Lest you fear that the extravagant demands of the other editor have led to a high turnover rate in the job, let us reassure you that this name change reflects only the Co-Editor’s recent marriage!

Sally D. Mason and Meg Musselwhite
Editors