Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Transnational Recastings of Conquest and the Malinche Myth -- Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier -- Saving the Circum-Atlantic World: Transnational (American) Memories in Julia Álvarez's Disease Narrative -- Intruders on Native Ground: Troubling Silences and Memories of the Land-Taking in Norwegian Immigrant Letters -- Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History and Identity in James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk -- Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty's Autobiographical Writing -- Roots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated -- Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo -- Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I -- "Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France": Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers -- Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory -- Remembering the 'Forgotten War' and Containing the 'Remembered War:' Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War -- Celluloid Recoveries: Cinematic Transformations of Ground Zero -- (Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago's World's Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory -- Between Diaspora and Empire: The Shevchenko Monument in Washington, D.C. -- Of Routes and Roots: Topographies of Transnational Memory in the Upper Rio Grande Valley -- "A Lens into What It Means to Be an American": African American Philadelphia Murals as Sites of Memory -- Artistic Inspiration and Transnational Memories in the Twentieth Century -- Magna Carta 1215 and the Exercise of Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century -- Commentary Epilogue -- Backmatter.