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Before Disability is a literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil War. It shows how disability helped to shape US citizenship as it developed as well as how the formation of US citizenship, in turn, fundamentally shaped disability.

Richly illustrated with documents, photographs, and artworks spanning from before 1776 into the twenty-first century, This Land Is . . . tells a story about place in US history and culture. More than twenty writers and artists reflect on the conflicting visions of American land, engaging with colonial legacies, national identity, and resilience.

Jane Colden (1724–1760) was America’s first woman botanist. This richly illustrated account of her life and work examines Colden’s original writing, the correspondence of her father, Dr. Cadwallader Colden, and eighteenth-century botanic sources, and restores her legacy as one of the country’s great botanists.