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Vol. 12 No. 1	Dancing the “Republican Two-Step” with Copyrights, Patents, and Corporations	Common Reading	Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, and Mark Peterson
Vol. 10 No. 3	A Drunkard’s Story: The market for suffering in antebellum America	Features	Thomas Augst
Vol. 14 No. 4	Lessons in Diction and Deism	The Common School	Abigail Walthausen
Vol. 11 No. 3	Old School: Glenn Roberts restores Carolina grains	Features	Glenn Roberts
Vol. 08 No. 2	Secrecy and Manhood	Talk of the Past	Joseph S. Bonica
Vol. 16 No. 2	Leaves, Trees, and Forests: Frances Ellen Watkins’s Forest Leaves and Recovery	On the Recovery of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Forest Leaves: Archives, Origins and African American Literature	Eric Gardner
Vol. 13 No. 4	On High: A Child’s Chair and Mather Family Legacy	Object Lessons	Nan Wolverton
Vol. 03 No. 4	The High Place: Potosi	Early American Cities	John Demos
Vol. 14 No. 4	What is Evans-TCP?	Web Library	Molly O'Hagan Hardy
Vol. 14 No. 2	Back to the Battlefield	Features	Adam Arenson

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