The 2021 volume of American Furniture is intensely object-focused, with articles ranging from new discoveries in Rhode Island furniture to those on specific pieces: two associated with Jefferson’s drafting of the Declaration and two with fraudulent components and additions. Underlying these essays are a diverse group of topics including “labor and memory in furniture history,” redemption and reimagination of furniture, and the exploitation of history and trauma in the creation and marketing of a fake.Table of ContentsCradling the Past: Labor and Memory in Furniture HistoryKenneth CohenAn “Ingenious” Man: George Peabody, Newport CabinetmakerPatricia E. KaneNewly Discoveries in Furniture by Christopher TownsendErik Gronning and Amy CoesThomas Jefferson’s Writing Box and Rotating Windsor Writing ChairJames GergatReimagining and Redemption: The Chipstone Foundation’s Secretary with ChipmunkBeth Lipman and Jonathan Prown“Forging the Real War”: Nostalgia, Memory, and Trauma in the Bingham Memorial SecretaryBrandy Culp and Ruthie Dibble
