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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 07 No. 3	The Dickinsons of Amherst Collect	Nineteenth-Century Graphics in America	Katharine Martinez
Vol. 07 No. 4	Benjamin Franklin Slept Here	Pastimes	Joyce E. Chaplin
Vol. 02 No. 3	Indians, Objects, and Revolution	Object Lessons	Kirk Davis Swinehart
Vol. 08 No. 1	Leather Steaks and Indigestible Pies	Reviews	Michael Zakim
Vol. 12 No. 2	Flora and Femininity: Gender and Botany in Early America	Features	Susan Branson
Vol. 17 No. 4	Loving the Plant That Saves You	Notes on the Text	Mary Kuhn
Vol. 18 No. 2	Oregon Abroad: Staying Home to Investigate the Cultural and Natural History of Our Own Backyard	The Common School	Matthew Dennis
Vol. 06 No. 2	Ken Kesey Meets Lewis and Clark	Talk of the Past	George Rohrbacher
Vol. 12 No. 2	Fiat Lux, or Who Invited Thomas Edison to the Tea Party?: Shedding historical light on the light bulb controversy dividing America	Features	Emily Redman
Vol. 06 No. 1	Bovine Invaders, Porcine Imperialists	Reviews	Gregory Nobles

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