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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 14 No. 4	Reconsidering The American Jeremiad	Roundtable Short Reflections on Sacvan Berovitch's The American Jeremiad	Nancy Bentley
Vol. 15 No. 4	Nat Fuller’s Feast	Nat Fuller's Feast Roundtable	David S. Shields
Vol. 05 No. 2	A Radical Intellectual with Captain Cook: George Forster’s world voyage	Features	Harry Liebersohn
Vol. 07 No. 4	Private Wealth, Public Influence	Talk of the Past	Johann N. Neem
Vol. 08 No. 4	Monticello	Features	Jack Sexton
Vol. 09 No. 3	The Founders’ Fiction	Features Who Reads an Early American Book?	Alison L. LaCroix
Vol. 09 No. 3	“None Need Think Their Sympathy Wasted”	Features Who Reads an Early American Book?	Lisa M. Gordis
Vol. 10 No. 1	Why We Need a New History of Exploration: Lewis and Clark, Alexander von Humboldt, and the explorer in American culture	Features	Michael F. Robinson
Vol. 10 No. 3	Hard Facts for Hard Times: Social knowledge and social crisis in the nineteenth century	Features	Oz Frankel
Vol. 14 No. 3	The Rich Diversity of the Edge	The American Revolution Reborn	David Hsiung

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