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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 09 No. 2	The National History Education Clearinghouse	Web Library	Dave Neumann
Vol. 09 No. 4	Instructions for the Young: Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks	Web Library	Patricia Cleary
Vol. 14 No. 2	The Emilie Davis Diaries Project	Features	Judith Giesberg
Vol. 14 No. 4	The American Jeremiad after Thirty-Five Years	Roundtable Short Reflections on Sacvan Berovitch's The American Jeremiad	Jonathan Arac
Vol. 06 No. 4	The Little Picture	Talk of the Past	Edward Gray
Vol. 08 No. 1	Why Biography?	Ask the Author	Megan Marshall
Vol. 08 No. 4	Unruly Origins	Ask the Author	Woody Holton
Vol. 08 No. 4	Beyond the Bubble	The Common School	Ted Sizer, and Nancy Sizer
Vol. 08 No. 4	Seed Packets and Their Stories	Object Lessons	Stephanie Volmer
Vol. 08 No. 4	The Tropical Turn	Features	James Kessenides

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Sophie White, “Trading Looks Race, Religion and Dress in French America,” Commonplace: the journal of early American life, accessed September 30, 2019, https://commonplace.online/article/trading-looks-race-religion-dress-french-america/

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