Laura E. Helton

Helton, Laura E., Michele Mitchell, and Nikhil Pal Singh. “Remaking the Past: Collecting, Collectivity, and the Emergence of Black Archival Publics, 1915-1950”. New York University, 2015.

Helton, Laura E. Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History. Black Lives in the Diaspora : past Present Future. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2024.

Helton, Laura E. “Schomburg’s Library and the Price of Black History”. African American Review 54, no. 1 (2021): 109-27.

Adamczyk, Alice, Laura E. Helton, Miranda Mims, and Matthew J. Murphy. “Library Archaeology: Reconstructing a Catalog of the Arthur A. Schomburg Book and Pamphlet Collection”. African American Review 54, no. 1 (2021): 91-107.

Helton, Laura E. “Black Bibliographers and the Category of Negro Authorship”. In African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910, edited by Shirley Moody-Turner, 23-47. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Helton, Laura E. “On Decimals, Catalogs, and Racial Imaginaries of Reading”. PMLA 134, no. 1 (2019): 99-120.

Helton, Laura E. “Making Lists, Keeping Time: Infrastructures of Black Thought, 1900-1950”. In Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print, edited by Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne, 82-108.