1. Innocents abroad: the founding trustees, 1866-1880
2. General Cesnola and the Temple of Curium: showmanship and scholarship in the age of Barnum, 1865-1895
3. Indentured gratitude: the Havemeyers and other oligarchs, 1869-1913
4. Downtown: artist-artisans between commerce and philanthropy, 1880-1914
5. The guards: ethnicity, class, and labor, 1880-1958
6. Colonial flatware: Judge Clearwater and the limits of Americanization, 1906-1933
7. The ladies lunch club: women and the curatorial profession, 1900-1940
8. The modernists: the museum and modern art, 1921-1950
9. Pupils on parade: museum education as theater, 1907-1973
10. Uptown: the Met and the "total Black community," 1943-1977
11. Self-culture for out-of-towners: from miniatures to the Annenberg Center, 1948-1977
12. Changing occupations: mannequins at the Met, 1942-2004
13. Legacy systems: from multimedia to digital, 1983-2019
