American Studies Program
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Publications

1988–1999

1999

Corman, Catherine. Reading, Writing, and Removal: Native American Literacies, 1824–1835.

Edwards, Brian. Morocco Bound: U.S. Representations of North Africa. 1920–1998.

Ehrhardt, Julia. ‘A taper in the imagination that never goes out’: Women, Regionalism, and the Profession of Authorship in America, 1900–1952.

Goldsby, Jacqueline. After Great Pain: The Cultural Logic of Lynching and the Problem of Realist Representation in America, 1882–1922.

González Monzón, Gaspar. Barnstorming American Culture: Traveling Entertainment as Work and Performance.

Gudis, Catherine. The Road to Consumption: Outdoor Advertising and the American Cultural Landscape, 1917–1965

Guilbert, Juliette. Rewriting the Republic: American Women’s Historical Fiction, 1824–1869.

Moskowitz, Marina. Standard Bearers: American Material Culture and Middle–Class Communities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.

Rotskoff, Lori E. Sober Husbands and Supportive Wives: Gendered Cultures of Drink and Sobriety in Twentieth–Century America, 1910–1965.

Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Race, Religion, and Radical Reform in Nineteenth–Century America.

Stephens, Michelle Ann. Black Empire: The Making of Black Transnationalism by West Indians in the United States.

Travis, Trish. Reading Matters: Book Men, ‘Serious’ Readers, and the Rise of Mass Culture, 1930–1960.

Weiner, Mark. Race, Citizenship and Culture in American Law: Ethno–Judicial Discourse from Crow Dog to Brown v. Board of Education.

Young, Cynthia. Soul Power: Cultural Radicalism and the Formation of a US Third World Left.

1998

Applegate, Deborah. The Culture of the Novel and the Consolidation of Middle–Class Consciousness: Henry Ward Beecher and the Uses of Sympathy, 1830–1880 (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Bernard, Emily. Black Anxiety, White Influence: Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance (Director: R Stepto)

Klein, Christina. Cold War Orientalism: Musicals, Travel Narratives, and Middlebrow Culture in Postwar America (Director: M Denning)

Marr, Timothy. Imagining Ishmael: Studies of Islamic Orientation in America from Puritans to Melville (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Newman, Kathleen. Critical Mass: Advertising, Audiences and Consumer Activism in the Age of Radio (Director: M Denning)

Saltz, Laura. Disappearing Women: Gender and Vision in Nineteenth–Century American Fiction and Photographs (Director: B Wolf)

Shukla, Sandhaya. India Abroad: Transnational Ethnic Cultures in the United States and Britain (Director: JC Agnew)

Weiner, Mark. Race, Citizenship and Culture in American Law, 1883–1954: Ethno–Juridical Discourse from "Crow Dog" to Brown v. Board of Education (Director: JC Agnew)

1997

Allen, Holly. Fallen Women and Forgotten Men: Gendered Concepts of Community, Home and Nation, 1932–1945 (Director: NF Cott)

Lester, Jody. Power and Marginality: The Politics of Writing about Black and/or Lesbian Identity (Director: HV Carby)

McFadden, Margaret. Anything Goes: Gender and Knowledge in the Comic Popular Culture of the 1930s (Director: NF Cott)

Rice, Stephen. Minding the Machine: Language of Class and Early Industrial America, 1820–1860 (Director: J Butler)

1996

Berger, Martin. Determining Manhood: Constructions of Sexuality in the Art of Thomas Eakins (Director: J Prown)

Conolly–Smith, Peter. The Translated Community: New York City’s German–Language Press as an Agent of Cultural Resistance and Integration, 1910–1918 (Director: JC Agnew)

Dirks, Jacqueline. Righteous Goods: Women’s Production, Reform Publicity and the National Consumers’ League, 1891–1919 (Director: NF Cott)

Levy, Anne Shullenberger. America Discovered a Second Time: French Perceptions of American Notions of Time from Tocqueville to Labouyale (Director: DB Davis)

McAlister, Elizabeth. "Men Moun Yo;" "Here Are the People:" Rara Festivals and Transnational Popular Culture in Haiti and New York City (Directors: J Butler and HV Carby)

Phillips, David. Art for Industry's Sake: Halftone Technology, Mass Photography and the Social Transformation of American Print Culture, 1880–1920 (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Rony, Dorothy B. Fujita. "You Got to Move Like Hell": Trans–Pacific Colonialism and Filipina/o Seattle, 1919–1941 (Director: D Montgomery)

Rubin, Rachel. Reading, Writing and the Rackets: Jewish Gangsters in Interior Russian and American Narrative (Directors: K Clark and M Denning)

Singh, Nikhil. 'Race' and Nation in the American Century: A Genealogy of Color and Democracy (Director: M Denning)

Smith, Suzanne. "Dancing in the Streets": Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, 1963–1973 (Director: HV Carby)

Uriarte, Mercedes de. Crossed Wires: Origins, Evolution and Agenda in U.S. Newspaper Construction of Outside "Others"––the Case of Latinos (Director: K Erikson)

White, Elizabeth. Sentimental Enterprise: Sentiments and Profit in American Market Culture (Director: JC Agnew)

1995

Belgrad, Daniel. The Social Meaning of Spontaneity in American Literature, 1940–1960 (Director: JC Agnew)

Cleghorn, Cassandra. Bartleby's Benefactors: Toward a Literary History of Charity in the Antebellum South (Director: R Brodhead)

Gilmartin, Katie. The Very House of Difference: Intersections of Identities in the Life Histories of Colorado Lesbians, 1940–1995 (Director: NF Cott)

Green, Amy. Savage Childhood: The Scientific Construction of Girlhood and Boyhood in the Progressive Era (Director: W Cronon)

Filene, Benjamin. Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Vernacular Music in the Twentieth Century (Director: RB Stepto)

Lassonde, Stephen. Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class (Director: J Demos)

Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: Waging, Writing, and Remembering King Philip's War (Director: J Demos)

Rotella, Carlo. October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Director: RB Stepto)

Swinth, Kristen. Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of a Professional Ideal in American Art, 1870–1920 (Director: NF Cott)

Townsend, Gretchen. Protestant Material Culture and Community in Connecticut, 1785–1854 (Director: J Butler)

1994

Deloria, Philip. Playing Indian: Otherness and Authenticity in the Assumption of American Indian Identity (Director: H Lamar)

Gedge, Karin. Without Benefit of Clergy: Women in the Pastoral Relationship in Victorian American Culture (Director: J Butler)

Reid–Pharr, Robert. Conjugal Union: Gender, Sexuality and the Development of an African American National Literature (Director: H Carby)

Richard, Yevette. My Passionate Feeling About Africa: Maida Springer–Kemp and the American Labor Movement (Director: D Montgomery)

Schoelwer, Susan. Painted Ladies, Virgin Lands: Women in the Myth and Image of the American Frontier, 1830–1860 (Director: B Wolf)

Viehmann, Martha. Writing Across the Cultural Divide: Images of Indians in the Lives and Works of Native and European Americans, 1890–1995 (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Waldstreicher, David. The Making of American Nationalism: Celebration and Political Culture, 1776–1820 (Director: DB Davis)

Yoo, David. Growing Up Nisei: Second–Generation Japanese Americans (Director: H Lamar)

1993

Brekus, Catherine A. Let Your Women Keep Silence in the Churches: Female Preaching and Evangelical Religion in America 1740–1845 (Director: HS Stout)

Den Tandt, Christophe. The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Desmond, Jane. Physical Evidence: Bodies in Contemporary American Performance (Director BJ Wolf)

Dilworth, Leah C. Imagining the Primitive: Representations of Native Americans in the Southwest, 1880–1930 (Director: BJ Wolf)

Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: The Relationship Between Civil Rights and Foreign Affairs in the Truman Administration (Director: DB Davis)

Fisher, Paul. Itineraries in the Art–World: The Cult of Europe and Transatlantic Careers in High Culture, 1865–1920 (Director: RH Brodhead)

Forbath, William E. Law and the Shaping of American Labor (Director: DB Davis)

Hartman, Saidiya V. Performing Blackness: Staging Subjection and Resistance in Antebellum Culture (Director: Alan Trachtenberg)

Murolo, Priscilla. Working Girls' Clubs, 1884–1928: Class and Gender on the "Common Ground of Womanhood" (Director: D Montgomery)

Rachman, Stephen. Narrative Pathology: Plagiarism, Exhaustion, and Obscenity in the American Renaissance (Director: RH Brodhead)

Satter, Beryl E. New Thought and the Era of Woman, 1875–1895 (Director: NF Cott)

Schnog, Nancy J. Inside the Sentimental: The Psychological Work of Nineteenth–Century American Women's Writing (Director: RH Brodhead)

Sellers, Christopher. Manufacturing Disease: Experts and the Ailing American Worker (Director: WJ Cronon)

Shannon, Christopher. Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, Autonomy, and Culture in American Social Thought, From Veblen to Mills (Director: J–C Agnew)

Shen, Xiao Hong. Yale's China and China's Yale: Americanizing Higher Education in China, 1900–1927 (Director: J Butler)

Stowe, David. Swing Changes: The Transformation of Jazz in American Culture, 1935–1950 (Director: M Denning)

Wickberg, Daniel. The Sense of Humor in American Culture, 1850–1960 (Director: JC Agnew)

Wescott, Brian. Freed to be Something New: Native American Journey into the Performing Arts (Director: H Lamar)

1992

Ballard, Barbara. Nineteenth–Century Theories of Race, the Concept of Correspondences, and Images of Blacks in the Antislavery Writings of Douglass, Stowe, and Browne (Director: DB Davis)

Casper, Scott E. Constructing American Lives: The Cultural History of Biography in Nineteenth–Century America (Director: RH Brodhead)

Goldberg, Michael L. "An Army of Women": Gender Relations and Politics in Kansas Populism, the Woman's Movement, and the Republican Party, 1879–1896 (Director: NF Cott)

Grasso, Christopher D. Between Awakenings: Learned Men and the Transformation of Public Discourse in Connecticut, 1740–1800 (Director: HS Stout)

Griffin, Farah J. "Who Set You Flowin'?" Migration, Urbanization, and African–American Culture (Director: RB Stepto)

Haltman, Kenneth. Figures in a Western Landscape: Readings in the Art of Titian Ramsay Peale from the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819–1820 (Director: J Prown)

Phillips, Kimberley. Heaven Bound: Black Migration, Community, and Activism in Cleveland, 1915–1945 (Director: NF Cott)

1991

Cartwright, Elizabeth. Physiological Modernism: Cinematography as a Medical Research Technology, 1895–1960 (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Glasser, Ruth. Que Vivio Tiene la Gene Aqui en Nueva York: Music and Community in Puerto Rican New York 1915–1940 (Director: D Montgomery)

Nickerson, Catherine R. The Domestic Detective Novel: Gothicism, Domesticity, and Investigation in American Women's Writing, 1865–1920 (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Oberdeck, Kathryn. Labor's Vicar and Variety Show: Popular Religion, and Cultural Class Conflict (Director: D Montgomery)

Stein, Sally. The Rhetoric of the Colorful and the Colorless: American Photography and Material Culture Between the Wars (Director: A. Trachtenberg)

Tal, Kali. Bearing Witness: The Literature of Trauma (Director: RB Stepto)

Wallach, Glenn. Obedient Sons: Youth and Generational Consciousness in American Culture, 1630–1850s (Director DB Davis)

1990

Beavers, Herman. Wrestling Angels into Song: Coherence and Disclosure in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPhearson (Director: RB Stepto)

Bruce, Marcus C. The Unfinished Universe: William James, Pragmatism, and the American Intellectual (Director: J Butler)

Morrissey, Katherine G. Mental Territories: Environment and the Creation of the Inland Empire, 1870–1920 (Director: HR Lamar)

Myers, Kenneth. Selling the Sublime: The Catskills and the Social Construction of Landscape Experience in the United States, 1776–1876 (Director: J Prown)

1989

Brown, David H. Garden in the Machine: Afro–Cuban Sacred Art and Performance in Urban New Jersey and New York (Director: HR Lamar)

Ibarguen, Raoul Richard. Narrative Detours: Henry Miller and the Rise of New Critical Modernism (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Scobey, David M. Empire City: Politics, Culture and Urbanism in Gilded–Age New York (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Watts, Linda S. "The Moment of Recognition": A Feminist Approach to Religious and Artistic Creation in the Writings of Gertrude Stein (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Ye, Wei–li. The American Experience of Chinese Students in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century (Director: JD Spence)

1988

Ferraro, Thomas J., III. Ethnic Passages: The Mobility Narratives of Yezierska, Miller, Puzo, and Kingston (Director: JC Agnew)

Frank, Dana L. At the Point of Consumption: Seattle Labor and the Politics of Consumption, 1919–1927 (Director: D. Montgomery)

Johnson, Dianne A. For the Children of the Sun: What We Say to Afro–American Youth Through Story and Image (Director: RB Stepto)

MacDonald, Bonney. In the Making: Acts of Creation in the Writing of William and Henry James (Director: RWB Lewis)

Rosenthal, Joel. Righteous Realist: Perceptions of American Power and Responsibility in the Nuclear Age (Director: G. Smith)

Stock, Catherine M. Main Street in Crisis: The Old Middle Class in the Great Depression (Director: HR Lamar)