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finalist in non-fiction. One of his essays, "Manufacturing
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A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan
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Man’s Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War
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The American Antiquarian Society, 1812–2012: A Bicentennial History
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literature and culture, reside in the Harvard University Archives.
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America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century
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