Introduction: historical Latinidades and archival encounters / Rodrigo Lazo
The errant Latino: Irisarri, Central Americanness, and migration's intention / Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Historicizing nineteenth-century Latina/o textuality / Raúl Coronado
On the borders of independence: Manuel Torres and Spanish American independence in Filadelphia / Emily García
From Union officers to Cuban rebels: the story of the brothers Cavada and their American civil wars / Jesse Alemán
Almost-Latino literature: approaching truncated Latinidades / Robert McKee Irwin
Toward a reading of nineteenth-century Latino/a short fiction / John Alba Cutler
When archives collide: recovering modernity in early Mexican American literature / José Aranda
Feeling Mexican: Ruiz de Burton's sentimental railroad fiction / Marissa K. López
Pronouncing citizenship: Juan Nepomuceno Cortina's war to be read / Alberto Varon
Raimundo Cabrera, the Latin American archive, and the Latina/o continuum / Carmen E. Lamas
Flirting in Yankeeland: rethinking American exceptionalism through Argentine travel writing / Carrie Tirado Bramen
"Hacemos la guerra pacífica": Cuban nationalism and politics in Key West, 1870-1900 / Gerald E. Poyo
Citizenship and illegality in the global California gold rush / Juan Poblete
"El negro es tan capaz como el blanco": José Martí, "Pachín" Marín, Lucy Parsons, and the politics of late-nineteenth-century Latinidad / Laura Lomas
Sotero Figueroa: writing Afro-Caribbeans into history in the late nineteenth century / Nicolás Kanellos
Response: from Criollo/a to Latino/a: the Latino nineteenth century in a hemispheric context / Ralph Bauer.