American contact: objects of intercultural encounters and the boundaries of book history

Introduction: The layered legibilities of intercultural encounters / Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman

Through the medium of the land: Serpent Mound within and without Ohio / Chadwick Allen

Writing-on-Stone and book history: recording the life-world of the Great Plains / Germaine Warkentin

Reading and misreading an eighth-century Maya stela / Megan E. O'Neil

The birth and life of the tlaquimilolli (sacred bundle) / Molly H. Bassett

Indigenous fabrics of empire in the sixteenth-century northern Andes / Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez

Alonso de Molina's grammar book in sixteenth-century Tenochtitlan / Marlena Petra Cravens

Writing and resistance in the conquest of Mexico's wake / Barbara E. Mundy

Intercultural encounters and the Codex Mexicanus / Lori Boornazian Diel

Bookmaking in Tlatelolco after the apocalypse / Alex Hidalgo

Chihoatenhwa's prayer: a Wendat-Jesuit print encounter from seventeenth-century New France / John H. Pollack

A Timucua epistle from seventeenth-century Florida / George Aaron Broadwell and Alejandra Dubcovsky

A contested Pennacook object in a seventeenth-century Puritan mission / Marie Balsley Taylor

Daniel Gookin's "Doings and sufferings" and the contradictions of the New England mission / David D. Hall and Adrian Chastain Weimer

And their words were reduced to writing: the materiality of torture transcripts in early eighteenth-century Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador) / Agnieszka Czeblakow

Christoph Saur's house: toward an anticolonial history of the settlement of Germantown / Bethany Wiggin

Slaveholding, seasoning, and the circulation of culinary knowledge in the Frankland family receipt book / Marissa Nicosia

A Jewish gravestone in eighteenth-century Charleston / Shari Rabin

The uses and reuses of ephemeral colonial print in Black households / Maria Ryan

A Guatemalan rulebook and the discipling of Catholic singing in the Spanish colonial world / Diane Oliva

An eighteenth-century Quaker poem and transatlantic abolitionism / Rachael Scarborough King with Cecily Duffie, Danielle Knox, Bishop Lawton, John Henry Merritt, Gabriell Montgomery, and Maria Carolina Sintura

Ephemeral texts in a semiliterate society: a subversive pasquinade in 1790 Caracas / Cristina Soriano

Disparate sources of an 1800 settlement negotiation in Freetown, Sierra Leone / Rachel B. Herrmann

Texas Mexican women and the War of Independence from Spain: memory, writing, forgetting / Raúl Coronado

Refuting procolonial discourse in postcolonial Haitian pamphlets / Chelsea Stieber

Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu's 1838 Arabic address in Jamaica / Elizabeth A. Dolan and Ahmed Idrissi Alami

Monk on fire: imag(in)ing Buddhism in the Americas / Alexandra Kaloyanides

Afong Moy's ephemera and the ephemerality of the early Asian American archive / Xine Yao

Coloring outside the lines: the comic valentine as a queer and gender-variant object / Don James McLaughlin

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 / Jessica C. Linker

Chinese print in early California / Devin Fitzgerald

A letter from nineteenth-century Afro-Brazil / Isadora Moura Mota

Three ways of reading Protestant missionary marginalia / Sonia Hazard

Framing colonization for Mormon youth in the Juvenile instructor (1866) / Nathan Rees

Improvising indigenous geographies in the first atlas of Argentina, ca. 1870 / Brian Bockelman

Proud Raven: contesting the "Lincoln pole" / Emily L. Moore

Hides, hymns, quills, crosses: an embellished nineteenth-century Dakota-language hymnal / Daniel Radus

Yun Ch'i-ho's diary and Asian-American encounters in the American South, 1888-1893 / Chris Suh

Multiple literacies in Hawaiian sheet music / Amy Kuʻuleialoha Stillman

Dime novels and the creation of the Italian immigrant criminal / Nancy Caronia

Chauncey Yellow Robe's resistance in the early twentieth-century United States / Rachel Linnea Brown

Cataloging Mexican history in the age of pan-Americanism / Corinna Zeltsman

Scouting for the Victor Talking Machine Company: 1917 traveling recording ledgers from Latin America / Sergio Ospina Romero

Making books at the penitentiary: César Vallejo's Trilce / Carlos Aguirre

1930s U.S. encounters with Sierra Leonean dance dramas / Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis

Interwar Black internationalism and the creation of Unwritten history of slavery (1945) / Anne Ricculli

Inscribing Black Atlantic religions: an Afro-Cuban libreta from Havana / Martin A. Tsang

The circulations of a 1968 Haitian compas LP / Mathew R. Swiatlowski

Rebecca Rubin: American Girl and American Jewish heritage / Rachel B. Gross.