In The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Marcy J. Dinius offers the first in-depth analysis of Walker's argumentatively and typographically radical pamphlet and its direct influence on five Black and Indigenous activist authors, Maria W. Stewart, William Apess, William Paul Quinn, Henry Highland Garnet, and Paola Brown.

As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value.

American Contact explores the dynamics of intercultural encounters through the medium of material texts. Its forty-eight short chapters shed new light on the material practices of communicating power and resistance, subjection and survivance, in contact zones of America from millennia in the past to the 2000s.

Never Broken features contemporary works by Lenape artists in dialogue with historic Lenape ceramics, beadwork, and other cultural objects. This richly illustrated volume explores the ways in which art can create, challenge, and rewrite history.

Neither the Time nor the Place considers how the space-time dyad has both troubled and invigorated Americanist scholarship in recent decades. Organized around considerations of citizenship, environment, historiography, media, and bodies, the book presents some of the most provocative new work being done in American literary studies today.