A cultural historian of 19th-century United States, Justin Tyler Clark is assistant professor of History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture (UNC Press, 2018). His essays have appeared in the Journal of American Studies, New England Quarterly, American Journalism, Time & Society, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and other outlets.