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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 18 No. 1	Exeter’s Declaration of Independence: A Festival, a Broadside, and a Lesson in Public History	Features	Jessica Lepler
Vol. 11 No. 4	America’s First Flash Mob: The Boston Tea Party	Reviews	Christine LaHue
Vol. 03 No. 3	Bringing Rapes to Court	Features	Sharon Block
Vol. 02 No. 2	“Nearest a Kin to Fisher” Tavern Keepers as Common Lawyers	Object Lessons	Martha J. McNamara
Vol. 08 No. 4	The Supreme Court Confronts History: Or, Habeas Corpus Redivivus	Talk of the Past	H. Robert Baker
Vol. 02 No. 4	Women and the Constitution: The Asymmetries of Citizenship	The Uses & Abuses of the Constitution	Linda K. Kerber
Vol. 14 No. 1	The Lemmon Slave Case	Features	Marie Tyler-McGraw and Dwight T. Pitcaithley, Dwight T. Pitcaithley
Vol. 02 No. 4	“The Constitution Must Be Looked into by the Judges”	Reviews	Keith E. Whittington
Vol. 10 No. 4	Lifting the veil of race at the U.S. Capitol	Features	Vivien Green Fryd
Vol. 14 No. 1	A Fashion for Abolition	Object Lessons	Cybèle T. Gontar

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