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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 09 No. 4	Self-portraiture and Self-Fashioning	Object Lessons	Kevin D. Murphy
Vol. 09 No. 4	Best in Show	Features	Marcy J. Dinius
Vol. 02 No. 2	True Pictures	Features	Gregory Fried
Vol. 07 No. 3	Face Value	Nineteenth-Century Graphics in America	Catherine E. Kelly
Vol. 16 No. 2.5	Before Photography: Visualizing Black Freedom	Reviews	Tanya Sheehan
Vol. 12 No. 4	War Stories and Love Stories: Captain Oliver Perry and the Making of American Patriotism	1812 New Perspectives on an Old War Roundtable	Nicole Eustace
Vol. 04 No. 3	Soldiers’ Tales: “What Did You Do in the War, Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandpa?”	Features	Andie Tucher
Vol. 14 No. 2	Civil War Veterans and the Limits of Reconciliation	Features	Caroline E. Janney
Vol. 12 No. 2	The Not-So-Civil War	Reviews	J. I. Little
Vol. 14 No. 2	“A Brave and Gallant Soldier”	Object Lessons	Sarah Beetham

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