Introduction, by Robert M. Ehrenreich, Jane E. Klinger, Gabriel Pizzorno, and Caroline Sturdy Colls PART I: PRESERVING DIFFICULT HISTORIES 1. The Conservator's Role in the Preservation of the Material Culture of Difficult Histories, by Jane E. Klinger 2. Imperfect Proof: A Case Study of Preserving and Presenting the Humanity of 9/11's Material Culture, by Jan Seidler Ramirez and Lisa Conte 3. Mending the Social Fabric of Memory: Preserving Textiles in Genocide Memorials from Rwanda to Cambodia, by Julia M. Brennan 4.
A Common Evidentiary Infrastructure: On Participatory Methods of Optical Survey, Recording the Destruction of Yazidi Cultural Heritage in Sinjar, by Ariel Caine PART II: RECOVERING VESTIGES OF PERSONHOOD 5. Material Connections at Japanese American Incarceration Camps, by Koji Lau-Ozawa 6. Identity, Personhood, and Material Culture: A Documentary Archaeology of the Personal Belongings of Prisoners upon Arrival at Dachau Concentration Camp, by Gabriel H. Pizzorno and Benjamin C. G. Lee 7. Talisman, Trophy, Testament: Holocaust-Era Mica from the Theresienstadt Glimmerwerke, by Robert M. Ehrenreich PART III: RECLAIMING HERITAGE AND REBUILDING COMMUNITY 8.
Beyond the Object: Afterlives of Loss and the Materiality of What Remains, by Elana Resnick 9. Body Politics and Museums: Face Casts of American Indians as Catalysts for an Intersectional Framework to Confront Historical Trauma and Difficult Histories, by Gwyneira Isaac 10. Undoing Cultural Erasure and Reclaiming Heritage: A Museum and Community Collaborative Analysis of a Wallet Made during the Holocaust from a Desecrated Torah Scroll, by Jeremy Maron and Steven Hyman 11. "Without Apology or Anger": The 1968 Olympic Protest and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, by Damion L. Thomas, Shi Evans, And Justin Hudson PART IV: REPRESENTING DIFFICULT HISTORIES 12. A Visual Artist's Approach to Material Culture: Addressing Trauma and Terror, by Renee Billingslea 13. An Epistemology of the Virtual: or What Can Concealing Reveal?, by Lance Winn 14. Object Lessons: Art and Forensics from Former Yugoslavia, by Stephenie Young 15.
Representing and Exhibiting Archaeological Findings through Artistic Practice, by Caroline Sturdy Colls And Michael Safaric Branthwaite Conclusion: The Material Culture of Difficult Histories, by Leora Auslander Index Contributors.