Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Cynthia A. Kierner, Matthew Mulcahy, and Liz Skilton
  • A New World of disaster : hazards, environments, and experience in colonial British America / Matthew Mulcahy
  • An incendiary war : conspiracies, disasters, and the American Revolution, 1775-1790 / Benjamin L. Carp
  • An American plague : yellow fever in the United States, 1793-1820 / Sarah E. Naramore
  • Misinformation and the politics of reporting on disasters in the early republic / Jonathan Todd Hancock
  • The Great New York Fire of 1835 and the legal architecture of disaster / Jane Manners
  • Brave men and mangled ladies : spectacle, sentiment, and exploding steamboats in antebellum America / Cynthia A. Kierner
  • Spring floods and settler colonial ambivalence : a microhistory of Freshets on Wright's Island in the mid-nineteenth century / Tom Wickman
  • Richmond's year of disasters : relief, reconciliation, and the end of Reconstruction / Alyssa Toby Fahringer
  • The slow disaster of Jim Crow and Lowcountry hurricanes, 1893-1940 / Caroline Grego
  • Layers of violence : slow disaster in the cancer alley anthropocene
  • Scott Gabriel Knowles and Ashley Rogers
  • A collision of disasters : COVID-19 and diabetes
  • Richard M. Mizelle Jr.
  • The myth of the 100-year flood : the language of risk and the 2016 Louisiana floods / Liz Skilton.