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Vol. 04 No. 2	Curiosity Did/Did Not Kill the Cat: The Controversy Continues	Features	Ann Fabian, and Joshua Brown
Vol. 05 No. 2	Naming the Pacific: How Magellan’s relief came to stick, and what it stuck to	Features	Mark Peterson
Vol. 07 No. 2	American History on Other Continents	Tales from the Vault	James Fichter
Vol. 17 No. 1	Post Transbellum?	Roundtable The Long Civil War	Gregory Laski
Vol. 10 No. 3	Pictures of Panic: Constructing hard times in words and images	Features	Jessica Lepler
Vol. 09 No. 1	Midget on Horseback	We the Government	Jeff Pasley
Vol. 08 No. 4	Publick Occurrences 2.0 May 2008	Publick Occurrences	Jeffrey Pasley
Vol. 09 No. 4	Debating Freedom of Speech and Conscience	Thomas Paine	Nathalie Caron
Vol. 12 No. 3	Arizona’s Secret History: When Powerful Mormons Went Separate Ways	Political Histories	Daniel J. Herman
Vol. 09 No. 3	Reading and Writing Indians	Features Who Reads an Early American Book?	Hilary E. Wyss

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