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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 01 No. 1	Why a Common-place?	Announcements	Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky
Vol. 01 No. 1	Disarming Early American History	Features	Michael Bellesiles
Vol. 01 No. 1	Going Dutch	Features	Scott E. Casper
Vol. 01 No. 1	Remembering–and Inventing–the Alamo	Reviews	Walter Nugent
Vol. 01 No. 1	Donna Merwick’s New World	Reviews	Cynthia J. Van Zandt
Vol. 01 No. 1	Describing America	Reviews	James T. Kloppenberg
Vol. 01 No. 1	Crucible of War: Some Context, and a Sketch of the Narrative	Discussion of Fred Anderson's Crucible of War	Fred Anderson
Vol. 01 No. 1	Appleby’s Liberal America	Reviews	David Waldstreicher
Vol. 01 No. 1	Fiction for the Purposes of History	Ask the Author	Richard Slotkin
Vol. 01 No. 1	Incest in the Archives	Tales from the Vault	Irene Quenzler Brown, and Richard D. Brown

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