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Vol. 07 No. 2	Vulgar Things: James Fenimore Cooper’s “clairvoyant” Pocket Handkerchief	Features	Hannah Carlson
Vol. 16 No. 1	Impressions of Tar and Feathers: The “New American Suit” in Mezzotint, 1774-84	Object Lessons	Amy Torbert
Vol. 16 No. 3	Dressing for History: Teaching in Eighteenth-Century Clothing	Features	Abby Chandler
Vol. 04 No. 1	Redressing Early America	Reviews	David Waldstreicher
Vol. 11 No. 4	Puritan Scrabble: Games of Grief in Early New England	Features	Joanne van der Woude
Vol. 15 No. 2	Speaking with the Dead: Dreams and Cultural Contexts	Features	Ann Marie Plane
Vol. 13 No. 4	Tragedy, Welfare, and Reform: The Impact of the Brooklyn Theatre Fire of 1876	Features	Joshua Britton
Vol. 12 No. 3	All That Remains of Henry Clay: Political Funerals and the Tour of Henry Clay’s Corpse	Political Histories	Sarah J. Purcell
Vol. 16 No. 3.5	Dark Histories of Death	Reviews	Megan Kate Nelson
Vol. 07 No. 2	Making Peace Patriotic	Talk of the Past	J. M. Opal

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