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Before the Gannenmono: The First Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands
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What Freedom Meant to Prince Whipple, The Black Revolutionary Soldier Famous for Rowing Across the Delaware
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(un)Redact the Facts in the Art Museum World: A Great Step in the Evolution of Museum Interpretations with Room for Growth at the American Folk Art Museum
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Was the Portrait of John Wilmot Destroyed in a Fire?
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Sullivan Ballou’s Body: Battlefield Relic Hunting and the Fate of Soldiers’ Remains
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Blogging Moby-Dick: An artist illustrates every page of The Whale
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America’s Unknown Constitutional World
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Images of Want: How poverty was, and was not, pictured before the Civil War
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Striking Scenes: Robert Koehler, The Strike (1886), and competing visions of labor-capital conflict in the Gilded Age
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Object Lesson: Pompe Stevens, Enslaved Artisan
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Reading Puritans and the Bard
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Players: Edwin Booth and the nineteenth-century American stage
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Acquisition, Interrupted: Charles Willson Peale’s Stewart Children and the labor of conscience
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The Art of Condescension: Postbellum Caricature and Woman Suffrage
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“Great Questions of National Morality”
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“Ho for Salt River!”
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Print Culture and Popular History in the Era of the U.S.-Mexican War
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Digging for Dirt: Reading Blackmail in the Antebellum Archive
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Star-spangled Sentiment
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America, the “Rebellious Slut”: Gender & Political Cartoons in the American Revolution
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Freedom in the Archives: Free African Americans in Colonial America
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In the Wake of Jim Crow
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Impressions of Tar and Feathers: The “New American Suit” in Mezzotint, 1774-84
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Redressing Early America
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Alive with the Sound of Music
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Dancing through American History
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John James Audubon, the American “Hunter-Naturalist”: A New Species of Scientist for the New Nation
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The Sideboard Takes Center Stage
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The Dickinsons of Amherst Collect
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Indians, Objects, and Revolution
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Cross-Stitched History: Artistry and ambition in Christina Arcularius’s Tree of Knowledge sampler
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Our Mayflower Bible
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Accept No Imitations: The campaign against counterfeits, past and present
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Deceiving and Undeceiving in Early American Art and Culture
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“Morbid curiosity”: The Decline and Fall of the Popular Anatomical Museum
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Mapping a Demon Malady: Cholera Maps and Affect in 1832
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Family Albums of War: Carte de Visite Collections in the Civil War Era
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Lobsters on the Walls
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“Reading” Portrait Prints
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Touching Sentiment: The Tactility of Nineteenth-Century Valentines
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Thirteen Sent, Ten Received: Account Books, Valentines, and Social Capital
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Winterthur XXX: Searching for early American erotica
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Early America’s Guide to Sex: Aristotle’s Masterpiece
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The Manly Sport of American Politics: Or, How We Came to Call Elections “Races”
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Storm of Blows
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Curiosity and Cure: Peter Parker’s patients, Lam Qua’s portraits
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“Like standing on the edge of the world and looking away into heaven”
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Viewpoints on the China Trade
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After the Statues Have Fallen
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H. J. Lewis, Free man and Freeman artist
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The Trouble With Angels
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George’s Story: Dolls and the Material Culture of Christmas
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun
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Recipe for a Culinary Archive: An Illustrated Essay
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Looking for Limbs in all the Right Places: Retrieving the Civil War’s Broken Bodies
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Self-Fashioning in Sarah Goodridge’s Self-Portraits
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Self-portraiture and Self-Fashioning
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Best in Show
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True Pictures
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Face Value
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Before Photography: Visualizing Black Freedom
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Innocents at War: Si Klegg’s Civil War
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Black Work at the Polling Place
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Digging Up History: How Photo-Flo and elbow grease are saving New England’s historic cemeteries
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A Surprising Souvenir? Thomas Moran’s Venetian Gondola
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Thinking Global and Making Local: Mariner’s Art in International Perspective
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Shivering Timbers: Sexing up the pirates in early modern print culture
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George Washington’s Disappearing Ribbon
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“Nor wish to live the past again”: Unsettling Origins in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Forest Leaves
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Painting Stories in the Land
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Facing the End
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Curiosities Encountered: James Wilson and Provincial Cartography in the United States, 1790-1840
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Poetic Research
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Indigenous Networks: Rethinking Print Culture through Early American Media
creative writing
Jigsaw
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