1. Our Phillis, Ourselves– Joanna Brooks
2. Past Presentisms: Suffering Soldiers, Benjaminian Ruins, and the Discursive Foundations of Early U.S. Historical Novels–Joseph J. Letter
3. Heartfelt Thanks to Punch for the Picture: Frederick Douglass and the Transnational Jokework of Slave Caricature–Michael A. Chaney
4. A Wayward Art: Battle-Pieces and Melville's Poetic Turn–Cody Marrs
5. Colored Empires in the 1930s: Black Internationalism, the U.S. Black Press, and George Samuel Schuyler–Etsuko Taketani
6. Richard Wright's Oneiropolitics– Mikko Tuhkanen