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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 09 No. 1	Why Institutions Matter	We the Government	Richard R. John
Vol. 10 No. 1	The Haunted Castle: A Connecticut journalist’s journey into the African slave trade	Tales from the Vault	Anne Farrow
Vol. 10 No. 3	Hard Times: The exhibition	Features	Noam Maggor
Vol. 10 No. 4	Reading for Relevance	Common Reading	Elisa Tamarkin
Vol. 10 No. 4	Anthony’s Broadway on a Rainy Day	Object Lessons	David Jaffee
Vol. 06 No. 3	Big Money Comes to Boston	Money	Mark Peterson
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

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