I believe you will find that American printers have been putting the quotation marks OUTSIDE the period (and the comma) no matter what the quotes are marking for many, many decades. Check out books published in this country. British usage is different---I guess you could say more logical. They do what we do with question marks and exclamation points.

Ed Schuster

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