The essays in this collection were written collaboratively, with feedback, insights, discussion, and inspiration from the dozen students in “American Literature, American Learning,” a graduate class taught by Cathy N. Davidson.  Thanks to a grant from the Teagle Foundation, a team of undergraduates were taught how to do professional copy editing, proofreading, and book design and produced the final manuscript online, as a free downloadable pdf, and as a physical book available at cost on Amazon.com.