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April 2021 issue

The Flash Press: New York’s Early 19th-Century “Sporting” Underworld as a Unique Source of Slang

Jonathon Green,

author of Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Black Women in the Women’s Era, 1890-1920: Course Assignments Using Readings from Afro-Americana Imprints

Katherine Hijar,

Assistant Curator, Mystic Seaport Museum

Antebellum Arithmetic and Abolitionist Newspapers

Lukas Etter,

University of Siegen, Germany

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