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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 04 No. 3	This “Miserable African”: Race, crime, and disease in colonial Boston	Features	Mark S. Weiner
Vol. 11 No. 1	Searching for Smut: Hot on the trail of Anthony Comstock (1844-1915)	Tales from the Vault	Amy Werbel
Vol. 16 No. 4.5	‘Born of Failure:’ Gender, Class, and the Early American Prison	Reviews	Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan
Vol. 12 No. 3	Digging for Dirt: Reading Blackmail in the Antebellum Archive	Common Reading	Leon Jackson
Vol. 07 No. 2	Dr. Warren’s Ciceronian Toga	Features	Eran Shalev
Vol. 06 No. 3	Benjamin Franklin’s “Enriching Virtues”	Money	Benjamin H. Irvin
Vol. 08 No. 1	How Betsy Ross Became Famous	Features	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Vol. 08 No. 1	An American Flag in Japan: Townsend Harris and the materials of diplomacy, 1857-58	Object Lessons	Barbara Brooks
Vol. 03 No. 2	Star-spangled Sentiment	Features	Robert E. Bonner
Vol. 12 No. 3	Making the Nation	Reviews	George W. Boudreau

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