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Papers

(The TQCC of Winterthur Portfolio-A Journal of American Material Culture is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Rafia Zafar. Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning. Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. 148 pp.; 13 bl	1
Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris, eds., with a foreword by Deborah Willis. Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897–1922. Durham: University of North Carolina Press and the	0
:Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics	0
Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress	0
Front Matter	0
:Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment	0
Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff, with Carrie Eastman and Ashley Simone, eds. In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2020. 256 pp.; 129 color illu	0
From the Collection	0
William D. Moore. Shaker Fever: America’s Twentieth-Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. Public History in Historical Perspective. xi	0
:The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access	0
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Lauren F. Klein. An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2020. 236 pp.; 20 black-and-white photographs, notes, bibliography, index	0
Joseph Manca. Shaker Vision: Seeing Beauty in Early America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. vii–x+391 pp.; 72 color and 21 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index. $39.95	0
:Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America	0
:Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art	0
:Properties of Plastics: A Guide for Conservators	0
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:The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America	0
Two Photo Essays on Art and Cultural Exchange	0
:Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies	0
Monuments in Flax and Wool	0
:The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America	0
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George W. Boudreau and Margaretta Markle Lovell, eds. A Material World: Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019. 344	0
Deborah Willis. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship. NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis. New York: New York University Press, 2021. vii+243 pp.; 82	0

“Within Arm’s Reach”	0
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:Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture	0
Editor’s Introduction	0
:The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans	0
:Seduced by Radium: How Industry Transformed Science in the American Marketplace	0
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Editor’s Introduction	0
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Rebecca Zorach. Art for People’s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965–1975. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 395 pp.; 82 color and 43 black-and-white illustrations, notes,	0
:American Furniture, 1650–1840: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art	0
Books Received	0
:Black Designers in American Fashion	0
Thomas C. Hubka. How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 320 pp.; 148 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index. $40.00 (paper).	0
Books Received	0
Whitney Martinko. Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Early American Studies	0
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:Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births	0
Enslavement and Its Legacies: “May the points of our needles prick”	0
Editor’s Introduction	0
Editor’s Introduction	0
Sarah Wasserman. The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 296 pp.; 30 black-and-white photographs, notes, index. $27.00 (paper).	0
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum	0
:Mendings	0
:Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing	0
:Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture	0
:In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality	0
Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers, and Deborah Willis, eds. To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes. With a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and photograp	0
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:Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office	0
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Food for Fantasy	0
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:Radio Chipstone	0
:Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds	0
James A. Delle and Elizabeth C. Clay, eds. Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019. 281 pp.; 75 black-and-white illus	0
Front Matter	0
:In the Midst of Things: The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City	0
A Gropius-Breuer House Like Notable Others	0
Kyle Devine. Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. xii+316 pp.; 16 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00 (paper).	0
Editor’s Introduction	0
Enslavement and Its Legacies: “Constantly to look at me”	0
Complicit Material Culture	0
A More Perfect Atlantic World	0
A Conversation about Catesby’s Natural History with a Winterthur Conservation Student	0
The Transformative Power of Spaces	0
Editor’s Introduction	0
:The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects	0
Front Matter	0
Zachary J. Violette. The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 279 pp.; 22 color pl	0

Beyond the Box	0
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Landscape Architecture’s Veils	0
Naa Oyo A. Kwate. Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Forerunners: Ideas First 33. 87 pp.; 13 black-and-white images, no	0
Editor’s Introduction	0
Essence of Stillness	0
Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Translation	0
Books Received	0
Wendy A. Woloson. Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 388 pp.; 10 color plates and 92 halftones, notes, index. $29.99.	0
:Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place	0
Bobbye Tigerman and Monica Obniski, eds. Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980. Munich: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Prestel Verlag, 2020. 335 pp.; 220 color illustration	0
:Elusive Archives: Material Culture in Formation	0
Kristina Wilson. Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 254 pp.; 77 color and 76 black-	0
:Joinery, Joists and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the Twenty-First Century	0
Tanisha C. Ford. Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019. 256 pp.; 11 black-and-white illustrations. $27.99.	0
Wendy Bellion. Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019. 272 pp.; 11 color and 51 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index, bibli	0
:The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia: From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure	0
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Stitching a Lineage	0
Dana Goodin, Jasmine Helm, and Joy Davis. Unravel: A Fashion Podcast. 2015–2020, Podcast audio. https://www.unravelpodcast.com/. April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary. Dressed: The History of Fa	0
Charles Dawson’s Dioramas, Conservation, and Racial Equity, 1940 to Present	0
Editor’s Introduction	0
Choose Coziness, Clutter, and Color	0
:Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America	0
Books Received	0
Cover	0
Jonathan Senchyne. The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. xiv+194 pp.; 10 black-and-white illustrations, no	0
:Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures	0
:Company Suburbs: Architecture, Power, and the Transformation of Michigan’s Mining Frontier	0
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Brandi Thompson Summers. Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 232 pp.; 16 halftones, 1 table, notes, b	0
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:All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake	0
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:Conflict Graffiti: From Revolution to Gentrification	0
Map, Paper, Prints	0
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Michael Gaudio. Sound, Image, Silence: Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 224 pp.; 16 color and 67 black-and-white illustrati	0
:Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment	0
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:Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire	0
:The Everyday Life of Memorials	0
:Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures	0
:Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women’s Movement through Material Culture, 1848–2017	0
:The Material World of Eyre Hall: Four Centuries of Chesapeake History	0
Front Matter	0
Darby English. To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, 2	0
Editor’s Introduction	0
Editor’s Introduction	0
:Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture	0
A Conversation about Catesby’s Natural History with the Winterthur Library Director	0
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:Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia	0
Books Received	0
:Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts	0
:Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History	0
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Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith. Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020. xvii+176 pp.; 38 black-an	0
:Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia	0
Eco-Aesthetics as an Organizing Principle in Global Material Culture	0
:Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors	0
:Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire	0
Brett & Toby	0
:Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture	0
A Conversation about Catesby’s Natural History with the Plant-Loving Winterthur CEO	0
Editor’s Introduction	0
:Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas	0