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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 17 No. 1	The Arc of the Moral Universe, and Other Long Things	Roundtable The Long Civil War	Christopher Hager
Vol. 10 No. 2	Unveiling the American Actor: The Evolution of Celebrity in the Early American Theater	Features	Jason Shaffer
Vol. 09 No. 3	Two Early American Bestsellers	Features Who Reads an Early American Book?	Michael Winship
Vol. 03 No. 4	Where All the Trains Ran: Chicago	Early American Cities	Carl Smith
Vol. 03 No. 4	A View from the Parish Jail: New Orleans	Early American Cities	Thomas N. Ingersoll
Vol. 13 No. 3.5	Poems	Poetic Research	T. Zachary Cotler
Vol. 11 No. 2.5	Populism! Yeah? Yeah!!	Reviews	Paul Erickson
Vol. 14 No. 2	All Things Were Working Together for My Deliverance	Features	Mary Niall Mitchell
Vol. 14 No. 2	For Liberty and Empire	Features	Ari Kelman
Vol. 14 No. 3	What’s in a Name	Tales from the Vault	Stephen Darley

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