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The historical experience of Cheswold: A methodology for the research of fragmentary landscapes in Delaware	Tables of sociability: Philadelphia pier tables, 1810--1850

The fragility of significance: The rise and fall of the Cannon Ball House	Fashionable goods from a credible source: Anthony Rasch, silversmith and merchant

Pigments and pianos: Painter and varnisher Lyman White	The Corliss steam engine and the US economy in the late nineteenth-century

The Rockefeller Foundation and the public's perception of its trustworthiness: 1911--1913	Selling and stereoscopy: Reading "A Visit to Sears, Roebuck & Co."

Baby books and childhood narratives: Writing the self through material culture	The three architectures of "Geraldine's scrapbook of dresses"

Almost history: American colonial revival furniture and the career of Enrico Liberti (1894--1979)	Nostalgia and pragmatism: Dioramas of the Montana Historical Society

"For neatness, true fitting, shape and fashion": The craft and consumption of stays in eighteenth century America	"By his account rendered": The business of cabinetmaking in York County, Maine, 1815--1840

Edwin AtLee Barber: Collecting Pennsylvania, defining America	"A grand and ceaseless thoroughfare": The social and cultural experience of shopping on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 1820--1860

Springhouses of the Red Clay Valley: A transformation from essential to ornamental	"The blood of murdered time": Berlin wool work in America, 1840-1865

Colonial lineage and cultural fusion: Family identity and progressive design in the Kingscote dining room	What's love got to do with it? The social life of comic valentines, 1870-1920

Selling the silent salesman: Irv Koons and mid-twentieth century packaging design	"Quite an undertaking": The business of salvaging architecture in the 1920s

Brewing capital: Making and marketing beer in the Delaware Valley, 1760--1800	"At the plume of feathers": Susanna Passavant and the jewelry trade of eighteenth-century London and abroad

The gift of a museum to a museum: Elizabeth Day McCormick's textile collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	Entertaining a New Republic: Music and the women of Washington, 1800-1825

Mending a rupture: Vestment revival in the Episcopal Church, 1870-1930	The slop shop and the almshouse: Ready-made menswear in Philadelphia, 1780-1820

The arbiters of taste: Producers, consumers and the industrialization of taste in America, 1900--1960	Terrorism and the American experience: Constructing, contesting and countering terrorism since 1793

A time to gather, a time to scatter: Dutch-American settlement in Minnesota, 1885--1910	The quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Production, context, and meaning, 1750--1884

A different kind of slavery: American captives in Barbary, 1776--1830	The biomedicalization of public health and the marginalization of the environment: A policy history from the environment to the hospital and back again

Army of "cripples": Northern Civil War amputees, disability, and manhood in Victorian America	Good food for little money: Food and cooking among urban working-class Americans, 1875--1930

Making space for children: The material culture of American childhoods, 1900--1950	"By legal or moral suasion let us put it away": Temperance in Baltimore, 1829--1870

Class, culture, and color: Black Saint-Dominguan refugees and African-American communities in the early republic	Fallible guardian: The social construction of railroad telegraphy in 19th-century America

Pattern books and the suburbanization of Germantown, Pennsylvania, in the mid-nineteenth century	Why fly? A social and cultural history of private aviation in post-World War II America: 1945--1985

Progressively turning human origins discourse on its head: Science, religion, and liberal Catholic irony in the American public square, 1899--1939	The development and meaning of firefighting, 1650--1850

Making the farm pay: Persistence and adaptation in the evolution of Delaware's agricultural landscape, 1780--2005	The gender of industrial decline: Reconsidering sex discrimination and equal opportunity at Western Electric, 1965--1985

From the moon to the museum: A material history of Apollo space suits	From rags to riches: Amish quilts and the crafting of value

A church in crisis? Paradoxes in the rise of American Methodism, 1777--1835	Material translations: Cloth in early American encounters, 1520--1750

The Linen and Flaxseed Trade of Philadelphia, 1765 to 1815	Instruments of power: Sonic signaling devices and American labor management, 1821--1876

Thoroughly democratic in principle: Clothing and the materialization of the female body, 1870s--1914	The science of God's creation: Popular science and Christianity in the early republic

Ties that bind: People, policy, and perception in U.S.-Korean relations, 1905--1965	The right to design disability and access in the United States, 1945--1990

Cherokee reckonings: Native preachers, Protestant missionaries, and the shaping of an American Indian religious culture, 1801--1838	Betting on computers: Digital technologies and the rise of the casino industry (1950--1995)

To establish an intercourse between our respective houses: Economic networks in the Mid-Atlantic, 1735--1815	"Permanent property": Slave life insurance in the antebellum Southern United States, 1820--1866

Essays on macroeconomic price adjustments