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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.

Making All the World America offers a new account of the Doctrine of Discovery. While scholars have maintained that the doctrine operated through the suppression of Indigenous peoples, Timothy Bowers Vasko contends that the doctrine’s ideological work actually depended on the recognition of Indigenous rights and sovereignty.

In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison.

In Instrumental Indians, Matthew Villeneuve explores how John Dewey, the nation’s most prominent philosopher of democracy and education, articulated his ideas in part by invoking imaginary Indians while utterly failing to account for his Indigenous contemporaries’ struggles to achieve self-determination in schools.

Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers offers a detailed history of the newspapers that Frederick Douglass edited during his lifetime and highlights how his periodicals were collective productions. Benjamin Fagan places Black organizing at the center of the story of Douglass’s newspapers, and his newspapers at the center of the story of Black organizing.