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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 07 No. 3	Picturesque California	Nineteenth-Century Graphics in America	Sue Rainey
Vol. 13 No. 4	Following in His Footsteps: A Swiss Explorer Comes to America	Tales from the Vault	Jean-François de Buren
Vol. 13 No. 2	French Revolutionary Song for Federal Philadelphia	Music and Meaning in Early America	Myron Gray
Vol. 12 No. 4	The End of the War: The Dartmoor Massacre and a Tainted Peace	1812 New Perspectives on an Old War Roundtable	Paul A. Gilje
Vol. 15 No. 2	The In-Laws	Features	Lisa Wilson
Vol. 15 No. 2	Legacies	Roundtable Seasons of Misery	Abram Van Engen
Vol. 11 No. 4	‘Case’ History: A Louisiana Creole Armoire at Colonial Williamsburg	Object Lessons	Cybèle Gontar
Vol. 11 No. 2	A Raft of Hopes: Sometimes, half a lesson is better than none	The Common School	Jim Cullen
Vol. 03 No. 4	Race in the Park	Object Lessons	Sharon Ann Holt
Vol. 12 No. 2	“Dead Letters—By a Resurrectionist”: Liberty and Surveillance in the Tombs of the U.S. Post Office	Tales from the Vault	Courtney Fullilove

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