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Stepping Into It: Lessons Learned from Entering the History You’re Writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2012

Jennifer Mittelstadt
Jennifer Mittelstadt*
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Rutgers University
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 135 - 154
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Copyright © Donald Critchlow and Cambridge University Press 2012

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