Achavah and history: reflections on the historical emphases of Moshe Davis / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Vision and persistence: origins of the America-holy land studies project / Robert T. Handy -- Moshe Davis and the new field of America-holy land studies / Michael Brown -- "Each mouldering ruin recalls a history": nineteenth-century images of Jerusalem and the American public / John Davis -- Historical perspective through the study of ordinary people: William H. Rudy (1845-1915), a member of the America-Swedish Colony in Jerusalem / Ruth Kark -- Dedicating and consecrating the land: Mormon ritual performance in Palestine / Steven Epperson -- Esco Fund Committee: the story of an American Jewish foundation / Marianne Sanua -- Cultural model for America-holy land studies: one early example / Mathew Silver -- Ambiguous missionary: Robert Lindsey in Israel, 1948-1970 / Yaakov Ariel -- America Olim and the transfer of innovation to Palestine, 1917-1939 / Joseph B. Glass -- Armchair travelers to the holy land: the travel accounts of Rev. J. Lynch, OSF / Margaret M. McGuinness -- Franciscan monastery in Washington, D.C.: "the holy land of America" / David Klatzker -- Jerusalem, Vilna, Chicago: Gedaliah Bublick's wartime dilemma / Gerson Greenberg
