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In The Sonic South, Rebeccah Bechtold traces how white listeners both heard and imagined the plantation South and its Black communities and examines the legacy of these ways of hearing in the popular plantation literature of the 1830s to 1860s, written by both pro- and antislavery authors.

Through an exploration of ostensibly race- and gender-neutral policy approaches to alleviate patriarchal anxieties, H. Howell Williams reveals that political advocates’ efforts to regulate fatherhood were really attempts to bolster White American patriarchy and protect its dominance.

Historian Yoram Meital interprets Cairo’s synagogues as exquisite storytellers. Meital contends that studying the congregations and the social services provided in synagogues sheds new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present.

American Burial Ground reinterprets the historic touchstone of the Overland Trail as a story of death and Native activism. Emigrant graves became seeds of U.S. possession across the West. In response Native peoples defended their homelands by pointing to their graves as proofs of Indigenous persistence and enduring territorial claims.

Hope amid Despair tells the story of life on Lampedusa, a small island in the central Mediterranean and the southernmost frontier of undocumented migration to Europe. Alessandro Corso argues for an understanding of this border zone not as a site of order and control, but as one of existential struggle and moral possibility.

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.