Introduction: Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives / Thomas Bender -- Pt. I. Historicizing the Nation -- 1. Transnationalism and the Challenge to National Histories / Prasenjit Duara -- 2. Internationalizing International History / Akira Iriye -- 3. Where in the World Is America? The History of the United States in the Global Age / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer -- Pt. II. New Historical Geographies and Temporalities -- 4. International at the Creation: Early Modern American History / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- 5. How the West Was One: The African Diaspora and the Re-Mapping of U.S. History / Robin D. G. Kelley -- 6. Time and Revolution in African America: Temporality and the History of Atlantic Slavery.