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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

Fashionable goods from a credible source: Anthony Rasch, silversmith and merchant	"The love of research and the gift for new weavings": The work, collections, and legacy of Marguerite Porter Davison

Selling and stereoscopy: Reading "A Visit to Sears, Roebuck & Co."	Benjamin Franklin's 1776 Continental currency design: An American propaganda

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

"Their houses are some Built of timber": The colonial timber frame houses of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey	Constructing Savannah's cityscape, 1837--1854

Soldiers' and sailors' monuments and the rhetoric of reunion	The tension between art and industry: The Art-In-Trades Club of New York, 1906--1935

"By his account rendered": The business of cabinetmaking in York County, Maine, 1815--1840	Small consolations: Miniature architecture of memory in contemporary American art

"Convenient and fet to be cooked in": Making space for the kitchen in central Delaware, 1760-1820	"In consideration of divers good causes": The development and persistence of a free black community in West Laurel, Delaware 1800-1900

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

Brewing capital: Making and marketing beer in the Delaware Valley, 1760--1800	The gift of a museum to a museum: Elizabeth Day McCormick's textile collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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

The quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Production, context, and meaning, 1750--1884	Vision conceptualized in the American Renaissance murals of Edwin Howland Blashfield

Making space for children: The material culture of American childhoods, 1900--1950	Pattern books and the suburbanization of Germantown, Pennsylvania, in the mid-nineteenth century

The rhythm of glue, grease, and grime: Indexicality in the works of Romare Bearden, David Hammons, and Renee Stout	From rags to riches: Amish quilts and the crafting of value

Instruments of power: Sonic signaling devices and American labor management, 1821--1876	Laughing matters: Art caricature in America, 1878--1918

Enchanted machines: Vision and imagination in nineteenth-century American painting	The right to design disability and access in the United States, 1945--1990

Translations, appropriations, and copies of paintings at the dawn of mass culture in the United States, circa 1900	Navigating a sea of values: Understanding public attitudes toward the ocean and ocean energy resources