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American History • FEBRUARY 2022 VOL. 56, NO. 6

Re-redrafting New World History

Governance by Typo

Game Time

Ramapough Site Saved

Old Smokes

Comic Collection

Sculpture Spotted

Historians at the Movies

Curtis Plates to Penn

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DAUNTLESS SON

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Letters

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PSYCHED OUT

STANDING IN THE SHADOWS

PRESTIGE WITHOUT POWER

Hanging Offense • George Washington and the André dilemma

Slavery at Sea • A stand-off between sailors and captain on a lumber transport helped change seamen’s legal status

Final Frames • Many photographers working around Buffalo that awful Thursday thought they had made the last image of William McKinley alive and well

Light and Dark • Winfred Rembert’s indelible imagery of life under Jim Crow

Becoming Jane Crow • Born straddling lines of gender and color, Pauli Murray stitched a life of extraordinary accomplishment.

Ways of Being

SONGWRITING STUDIES

MONARCH OF PARTS

CONSTITUTIONAL CONUNDRUM

WARRING OVER WORDS

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