1. Dying Instruction: Puritan Pedagogy in Uncle Tom's Cabin– Molly Farrell
2. Contraband Singing: Poems and Songs in Circulation during the Civil War–Michael C. Cohen
3. Melville in the Customhouse Attic–Christopher Hager
4. Emersonian Terrorism: John Brown, Islam, and Postsecular Violence–Michael Ziser
5. From Sympathy to Empathy: Anzia Yezierska and the Transformation of the American Subject– Ann Mikkelsen
6. The Technê Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter–R. John Williams