American artifacts: essays in material culture

The truth of material culture: history or fiction? / Jules David Prown

Seduced by an old flame: paradox and illusion in a late-twentieth-century lucite lighter / Robyn Asleson

In vino veritas? death and the cellarette in empire New York / Jeffrey Collins

Reaching out to touch someone? reflections on a 1923 candlestick telephone / Kenneth Haltman

Sewing and sowing: cultural continuity in an Amish quilt / Sara Laurel Holstein

Unwrapping the bwat sekre: the secrets of a Haitian money box / Daisann McLane

The many figures of Eve: styles of womanhood embodied in a late-nineteenth-century corset / Leslie Shannon Miller

A garden in the machine: reading a mid-nineteenth-century, two-cylinder parlor stove as cultural text / Joel Pfister

Lucubrations on a lava lamp: technocracy, counterculture, and containment in the American sixties / Jennifer L. Roberts

Industry, nature, and identity in an iron footbridge / Carlo Rotella

An heirloom: interpreting a gilded age tortoiseshell locket / Lucy Soutter

The Foley food mill / Amy B. Werbel

The light of the home: dialectics of gender in an Argand lamp / Weili Ye.