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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 13 No. 3	An ‘Epidemical Distemper’: Conversion and Disorder, then and now	Features	Marion Rust
Vol. 01 No. 2	There Arose Such a Clatter Who Really Wrote “The Night before Christmas”? (And Why Does It Matter?)	Features	Stephen Nissenbaum
Vol. 12 No. 3	George’s Story: Dolls and the Material Culture of Christmas	Object Lessons	Ellen Litwicki
Vol. 02 No. 2	Girls Just Want to Have Fun	Vox Pop	Simone Zelitch
Vol. 16 No. 3	Defining A “Christian Nation”: or, A Case of Being Careful What You Wish For	Reviews	Dee E. Andrews
Vol. 09 No. 2	Artificial Light	The Common School	Jim Cullen
Vol. 15 No. 1	Sex and Public Memory of Founder Aaron Burr	Features	Thomas A. Foster
Vol. 06 No. 2	The Kingness of Mad George	Features	Jeffrey L. Pasley
Vol. 02 No. 4	The Clinton Impeachment: Dr. Clio Goes to Washington	The Uses & Abuses of the Constitution	Jack Rakove
Vol. 02 No. 4	The Clinton Impeachment: Clinton Hating	The Uses & Abuses of the Constitution	Joshua Micah Marshall

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