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01: The Layered Legibilities of Intercultural Encounters

02: Through the Medium of the Land: Serpent Mound Within and Without Ohio

03: Writing-on-Stone and Book History: Recording the Life-World of the Great Plains

04: Reading and Misreading an Eighth-century Maya Stela

05: The Birth and Life of the Tlaquimilolli (Sacred Bundle) 

06: Indigenous Fabrics of Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Northern Andes

07: Alonso de Molina’s Grammar Book in Sixteenth-Century Tenochtitlan

08: Writing and Resistance in the Conquest of Mexico’s Wake

09: Intercultural Encounters and the Codex Mexicanus

10: Bookmaking in Tlatelolco after the Apocalypse

11: Chihoatenhwa’s Prayer: A Wendat-Jesuit Print Encounter from Seventeenth-Century New France

12: A Timucua Epistle from Seventeenth-Century Florida

13: A Contested Penacook Object in a Seventeenth-Century Puritan Mission

14: Daniel Gookin’s ‘Doings and Sufferings’ and the Contradictions of the New England Mission

15: And Their Words Were Reduced To Writing: The Materiality of Torture Transcripts in Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador), 1724-1730

16: Christoph Saur’s House: Toward an Anti-Colonial History of the Settlement of Germantown

17: Slaveholding, Seasoning, and the Circulation of Culinary Knowledge in the Frankland Family Receipt Book

18: A Jewish Gravestone in Eighteenth-Century Charleston

19: The Uses and Reuses of Ephemeral Colonial Print in Black Households

20: A Guatemalan Rulebook and the Discipling of Catholic Singing in the Spanish Colonial World

21: An Eighteenth-Century Quaker Poem and Transatlantic Abolitionism

22: Ephemeral Texts in a Semi-Literate Society: A Subversive Pasquinade in 1790 Caracas

23: Disparate Sources of an 1800 Settlement Negotiation in Freetown, Sierra Leone

24: Texas-Mexican Women and the War of Independence from Spain: Memory, Writing, Forgetting

25: Refuting Pro-Colonial Discourse in Postcolonial Haitian Refutation Pamphlets

26: Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu’s 1838 Arabic Address in Jamaica

27: Monk on Fire: Imag(in)ing Buddhism in the Americas

28: Afong Moy’s Ephemera and the Ephemerality of the Early Asian American Archive

29: Coloring outside the Lines: The Comic Valentine as a Queer and Gender Variant Object

30: Lady Historian, Cuban Exile, and German Hatter: An Immigrant Story of Emma Willard’s Compendio de la Historia de los Estados Unidos as Translated by Miguel T. Tolón

31: Chinese Print in Early California

32: A Letter from Nineteenth-Century Afro-Brazil

33: Three Ways of Reading Protestant Missionary Marginalia

34: Framing Colonization for Mormon Youth in the Juvenile Instructor (1866)

35: Improvising Indigenous Geographies in the First Atlas of Argentina, c. 1870

36: Proud Raven: Contesting the “Lincoln Pole”

37: Hides, Hymns, Quills, Crosses: An Embellished Nineteenth-Century Dakota-Language Hymna

38: Yun Ch’i-ho’s Diary and Asian-American Encounters in the American South, 1888–1893

39: Multiple Literacies in Hawaiian Sheet Music

40: Dime Novels and the Creation of the Italian Immigrant Criminal

41: Chauncey Yellow Robe’s Resistance in Early Twentieth-Century United States

42: Cataloguing Mexican History in the Age of Pan-Americanism

43: Scouting for the Victor Talking Machine Company: 1917 Traveling Recording Ledgers from Latin America 

44: Making Books at the Penitentiary: César Vallejo’s Trilce

45: 1930s U.S. Encounters with Sierra Leonean Dance Dramas

46: Interwar Black Internationalism and the Creation of Unwritten History of Slavery (1945)

47: Inscribing Black Atlantic Religions: An Afro-Cuban Libreta from Havana

48: The Circulations of a 1968 Haitian Compas LP

49: Rebecca Rubin: American Girl and American Jewish Heritage