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Vol. 10 No. 2	Starving Memory: Joseph Plumb Martin Un-tells the Story of the American Revolution	Features	William Huntting Howell
Vol. 15 No. 2	George Washington’s Disappearing Ribbon	Object Lessons	Philip C. Mead
Vol. 08 No. 3	Freeing Dred Scott	Features	Adam Arenson
Vol. 17 No. 4.5	Crafts of Memory	Reviews	Michael Stancliff
Vol. 13 No. 1	In Bleak Waters: Suicide and the State of the Union	Ask the Author	Richard Bell
19.1	Dispatches to Henry Raymond’s New York Times: Whitman on Trauma in Civil War Washington	Notes on the Text	Robert J. Scholnick
Vol. 16 No. 2	Presentiments	On the Recovery of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Forest Leaves: Archives, Origins and African American Literature Roundtable	Meredith L. McGill
Vol. 13 No. 4	Trading Looks Race, Religion and Dress in French America	Ask the Author	Sophie White
Vol. 16 No. 2	“Nor wish to live the past again”: Unsettling Origins in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Forest Leaves	On the Recovery of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Forest Leaves: Archives, Origins and African American Literature	Britt Rusert
Vol. 01 No. 3	Painting Stories in the Land	Object Lessons	David R. Brigham

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