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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 01 No. 4	The Lion’s Den: Teaching about slavery	The Common School	Gloria Sesso
Vol. 17 No. 3	Poetic Order in Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal	Features	Kimberly Takahata
Vol. 09 No. 2	The Mind of the North in Pictures	Features	Bryan F. Le Beau
Vol. 09 No. 4	Closing the Books	The Common School	Jim Cullen
Vol. 10 No. 1	The Founding Fathers and their Dysfunctional Families: The American Revolution on the silver screen	Common Reading	Mark Peterson
Vol. 10 No. 3	The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Introduction to the “Hard Times” issue	Features	Michael Zakim
Vol. 10 No. 4	Speed Reading in the Archives	Tales from the Vault	Barbara Austen
Vol. 13 No. 2	Performing Early American Fiddle Tunes	Music and Meaning in Early America	Christian Wig
Vol. 13 No. 2	Partners in Time	Music and Meaning in Early America	April Masten
Vol. 14 No. 3	Revolution Reborn	The American Revolution Reborn	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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In addition to critical evaluations of books and websites (Reviews) and poetic research and fiction (Creative Writing), our articles explore material and visual culture (Objects); pedagogy, the writing of literary scholarship, and the historian’s craft (Teach); and diverse aspects of America’s past and its many peoples (Learn). For more great content, check out our other projects, (Just Teach One) and (Just Teach One African American Print).

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