Introduction / Claire Parfait, Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, and Claire Bourhis-Mariotti
Part I. New perspectives on African American history
"The grandest book ever written" : advertising Joseph T. Wilson's Black Phalanx (1888) / Claire Parfait
A race against obscurity : Merl R. Eppse and the Negro, too, in American history / Cheryl Knott
Abolitionist Black histories and historians in Massachusetts petitions / Nicole Topich
From the margins with a legacy of agency in Africanity : an encyclopedic idea / Michael Benjamin
Part II. Material and visual culture and the writing of history
Work, class, and respectability in Robert Roberts's House Servant's Directory, or, A Monitor for Private Families (Boston, 1827) / Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry
Expressions of self and belonging : enslaved people and race-based fashion in the antebellum U.S. South / Katie Knowles
African American quilts : color, creation, (counter)culture / Géraldine Chouard
Freeman Murray and the art of social justice / James Smalls
Romare Bearden : the making of a Black political cartoonist / Amy Kirschke.