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Jill Lepore
Playing Dress Up
The 1900 House strips The Patriot

Michael Bellesiles
Disarming American History
Did early Americans actually own guns?
Scott Casper
Going Dutch
Before Edmund Morris, there was Parson Weems
Fred Anderson, David Armitage, Brian Delay, Eliga H. Gould, and Paul Mapp
Roundtable: The Crucible of War
Assessing the Seven Years' War

Walter Nugent
Remembering--and Inventing--the Alamo
Review of The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Cynthia Van Zandt
Donna Merwick's New World
Review of Death of a Notary by Donna Merwick
James T. Kloppenberg
Describing America
Review of Becoming America by Jon Butler
David Waldstreicher
Appleby's Liberal America
Review of Inheriting the Revolution by Joyce Appleby
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Richard Slotkin
Fiction for the Purposes of History
What can a novelist do that an historian can't?

Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown
Incest in the Archives
The strange case of Ephraim Wheeler

Peter Laipson
He Said, She Said
Teaching Gender to High Schoolers

Alice Nash
Still Pequot After All These Years
Touring the Mashantucket Pequot Museum

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