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Jane Kamensky
Our Buildings, Ourselves
Glass, mortar, and American dreams
Joshua Brown
The Hungry Eye, Episode Three
Continuing a new work of historical fiction
 Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
The Ends of History
The case of the murdered muse
 Gregory Fried
True Pictures
Frederick Douglass on race in early American photography
Gordon Sayre
Explorers and Travelers
Review of Return Passages by Larzer Ziff and The La Salle Expedition to Texas ed. by William C. Foster
Eric Hinderaker
Still Life with Empire
Review of Peoples and Empires by Anthony Pagden, Empire and Order by James Muldoon, and The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage
Albrecht Koschnik
Sense and Sympathy
Review of American Sympathy by Caleb Crain
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Jeffrey L. Pasley
Federalist Chic
John Adams, Superstar
 
Simone Zelitch
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
When dolls come with pre-packaged pasts
Joanne B. Freeman
Founding Bothers
The politics of writing about politics
Patricia Cline Cohen
On the Road Again
In search of aura
Dean Eastman
Tiptoeing through the Tombstones
When high schoolers visit colonial cemeteries
Martha J. McNamara
"Nearest a Kin to Fisher"
Words and images in a colonial tavern
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