The late nineteenth century cotton dress on cover of the September AHR is part of the toolkit for this issue's #AHR Syllabus module on teaching material culture. The module offers teachers a variety of ways to use objects to tell historical stories, including helping students create object biographies. The #AHRSyllabus is a collaborative initiative designed to foreground innovative uses of historical method in the classroom. This module, like the entire #AHRSyllabus project, is entirely free to read for all and available through the AHR website. Dress, 1872, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.426a, b.