Journal of American Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of American Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
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Not a “Nonissue”: Perceptions and Realities of Campus Carry at The University of Texas at Austin6
Teaching Online in the Age of COVID-195
The QuileuteDune: Frank Herbert, Indigeneity, and Empire4
Imagined Hillarys: Feminism, Fantasy, and Fictional Clintons inThe Good WifeandThe Good Fight3
Opioid Storytelling: Rehabilitating a White Disability Nationalism3
How White Americans Became Irish: Race, Ethnicity and the Politics of Whiteness3
“Like a Double-edged Sword”: Student Testimonials on Campus Carry in Texas3
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Campus Carry and Active-Shooter-Event Emotion Management2
Space Occupied: Women Poet–Editors and the Mimeograph Revolution in Mid-century New York City2
Erasing Minds: Behavioral Modification, the Prison Rights Movement, and Psychological Experimentation in America's Prisons, 1962–19831
Not in My Office: Rights in an Armed Campus Space1
“He Was Shot because America Will Not Give Up on Racism”: Martin Luther King Jr. and the African American Civil Rights Movement in British Schools1
The Neo-frontier in Contemporary Preparedness Novels1
Race, Reconstruction, and the Invention of “Negro Superstition,” 1862–18771
Mobility, Skepticism, and Counter-storytelling in African American Travel Writing: Carl Rowan's South of Freedom1
Wages, Work, and the Industrial Past in Three Contemporary Labor Market Narratives1
“The Best Place to Help the Panthers Is at Home”: Dutch Black Panther Solidarity in Pursuit of a Revolution1
Jeffersonian Trembling: White Nationalism and the Racial Origins of National Security1
From Austerity to Disentitlement: The Transformation of Food Stamps in the US, 1969–19841
Unfit for History: Race, Reparation and the Reconstruction of American Lyric1
The Implicated Neoliberal Subject in Thomas Pynchon'sBleeding Edge1
Beyond Argumentum in Terrorem: The Contested Rhetoric of Campus Carry1
Kyle Longley, LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, £23.99). Pp. 361. isbn978 1 1071 9303 1. - Michael 0
Lisa Duggan, Mean Girl Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019, £15.99/$18.95). Pp. 116. isbn 978 0 5202 9477 6.0
The Post-World War II World Order and the Unresolved Cultural Legacies of the Korean War0
Julian Murphet, Faulkner's Media Romance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £53.00). Pp. 296. isbn 978 0 1906 6424 4.0
Ren Ellis Neyra, The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020, $25.95). Pp. xxii + 222. isbn 978 1 4780 1117 0.0
Making Americans: Spectacular Nationalism, Americanization, and Silent Film0
The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895–1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an “International Mind”0
David Schuyler, Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018, £22.99/$29.95). Pp. xiii + 266. isbn978 1 5017 1805 2.0
Wallace D. Best, Langston's Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem (New York: New York University Press, 2017, $35.00). Pp. xix + 288. isbn 978 1 4789 3489 1.0
Benjamin Lee, Poetics of Emergence: Affect and History in Postwar Experimental Poetry (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2020, $85.00). Pp. 190. isbn 978 1 6093 8697 9.0
Heroines of Compassion and National Consolers: The Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation and the Politics of Memory0
Competing Fantasies and Alternative Realities: Salman Rushdie's The Golden House0
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Geoff Hamilton, A New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, $24.50). Pp. 207. isbn081 3942 0
Andrew Heath, In Union There Is Strength: Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, £41.00). Pp. 296. isbn 978 0 8122 5111 1.0
Alasdair Pettinger, Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846: Living an Antislavery Life (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, $80.00). Pp. xviii + 358. isbn 978 1 4744 4425 5.0
Empire after Liberalism: The Transatlantic Right and Identitarian War0
Elizabeth R. Varon, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, £22.99). Pp. 520. isbn 978 0 1908 6060 8.0
Talking American in the Midwest: Linguistic Diversity and Authenticity in the Twentieth-Century United States0
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Girl Wonder: Nathalia Crane, Poetic Prodigy of the 1920s0
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, £64.00). Pp. 210. isbn978 0 1906 8935 30
Lessons in “Bad Love”: Film Noir and the Rise of the American Oil Regime in Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945)0
Howling “A Hot Time”: The Paradoxical Anthem of the Progressive Age0
David Kieran and Edwin A. Martini (eds.), At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018, $99.95 cloth, $34.95 paper).0
Sarah J. Purcell, Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022, $95.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, $26.99 ebook). Pp. 352. i0
Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick, At the Center: American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019, $85.00). Pp. 358. isbn0
Douglas Dowland, Weak Nationalisms: Affect and Nonfiction in Postwar America (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019, $55.00 hardback, $30.00 paperback). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 4962 0050 0
Matthew Mullins (ed.), Postmodernism in Pieces: Materializing the Social in U.S. Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, $92.00). Pp. 248. isbn 978 0 1904 5950 5.0
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W. Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, $27.95). Pp. 352. isbn 978 0 1908 4699 2.0
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John Ernest (ed.), Race in American Literature and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, $39.99). Pp. 452. isbn 978 1 1084 8739 9.0
“Racial Discrimination Can in No Way Be Justified”: The Vatican and Desegregation in the South, 1946–19680
Ery Shin, Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020, $61.15). Pp. 224. isbn 978 0 8173 2063 8.0
Alex Bevan, The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV: Production Design and the Boomer Era (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, $135.00). Pp. 245. isbn 978 1 5013 3141 1.0
Brian Goldstein, The Roots of the Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017, £32.95). Pp. 400. isbn978 0 6749 7150 9.0
Jessica R. Feldman, Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys: Nabokov, Joyce, and Others (Charlottesville and London: Virginia University Press, 2021, $39.95). Pp. 322. isbn 978 0 8139 4511 8.0
Brian Rosenwald, Talk Radio's America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019, $29.95). Pp. 268. isbn 970
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David Johnson Lee, The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2021, $54.95/£45.18). Pp. 188. isbn 978 10
Greg Barnhisel, Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, $55.00/£44.00). Pp 336. isbn 978 0 2311 6230 2. - Bryn Upto0
Isiah Lavender III, Afrofuturism Rising: A Literary Prehistory of the Movement (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2019, $29.95). Pp. ix + 230. isbn 978 0 8142 5556 8.0
INTRODUCING THE JAS BOOKSHELF0
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Roberto Clemente on the Black/Brown Color Line0
BECOMING MY OWN AUTHORITY0
DISCOVERING THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM BY NELSON ALGREN0
Rachel McBride Lindsey, A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017, $29.95). Pp. 312. isbn 978 1 40
Global Mass Culture, Mobile Subjectivities, and the Southern Landscape: The Bicycle in the New South, 1887–19200
Molly Littlewood McKibbin, Shades of Gray: Writing the New American Multiracialism (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018, $65.00). Pp. 348. isbn978 0 8032 9681 7.0
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Diletta de Cristofaro, The Contemporary Post-apocalyptic Novel: Critical Temporalities and the End Times (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, £29.99 paper, £100.00 cloth). Pp. 195. isbn 978 0
Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, and Stephen E. Tabachnick (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, $175.00/£125.00). Pp. 677. isbn 978 1 10710
Catherine Clinton (ed.), Sisterly Networks: Fifty Years of Southern Women's Histories (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020, $40.00). Pp. 137. isbn 978 0 8130 6661 5.0
Rob Turner, Counterfeit Culture: Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, £75.00). Pp. 232. isbn 978 1 1084 2848 4.0
Matt Wanat and Leonard Engel (eds.), The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018, $75.00). Pp. 267. isbn978 0 8263 5952 0.0
“We Chilluns, Long wid Her, Wuz Lak de Udder Slaves”: Free Black Families and Quasi-slavery in the Late Antebellum Era0
Leisy J. Abrego and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales (eds.), We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020, $26.95). Pp. 0
Diana Lemberg, Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019, $60.00/£50.00). Pp. 304. isbn978 0 2311 8216 4.0
Suzanne Bost, Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir & Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019, $25.00). Pp. 147. isbn 978 0 252 08462 1. - Laura E. Pérez, Er0
Jean Wyatt (ed.), Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2017, $29.95). Pp. 246. isbn 978 0 8203 5086 8.0
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John Claborn, Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, $102.60). Pp. 216. isbn978 1 3500 0944 8. - Sonya Posmentier, Cu0
Jonathan Bell (ed.), Beyond the Politics of the Closet: Gay Rights and the American State since the 1970s (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, $49.95). Pp. 280. isbn 978 00
Lindsey Flewelling (ed.), Two Irelands beyond the Sea: Ulster Unionism and America, 1880–1920 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018, £85.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 7869 4879 3.0
Exchange: A Signature Pedagogy for American Studies in the UK0
Mary Schmidt Campbell, An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, £22.99/$34.95). Pp. 464. isbn 978 0 1950 5909 0.0
Sub-Urban or Post-Rural: Suburban Development as a Two-Way Street in the Mid-Twentieth Century0
Roger L. Geiger, American Higher Education since World War II (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019, $35.00). Pp. 400. isbn 978 0 6911 7972 8.0
Duck Fights: Walt Disney versus Dudu Geva and the Politics of Americanization in Late Twentieth-Century Israel0
Benjamin Holtzman, The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, £22.99). Pp. 336. isbn 978 0 1908 4370 0. - Andrew J. Diamond and T0
Ashley Reed, Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020, $19.95). Pp. 262. isbn 978 1 5017 5136 3.0
C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017, $24.95). Pp. xiv + 259. isbn 978 1 5179 0173 8.0
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The Exonerative Deterministic: Uses of Neo-naturalism in Twenty-First Century American Culture0
David A. Davis, World War I and Southern Modernism (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018, $65.00). Pp. 234. isbn 978 1 4968 1541 5.0
Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin (eds.), Race Capital? Harlem as Setting and Symbol (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019, $65.00). Pp. 300. isbn978 0 2311 8322 2.0
Nancy Sinkoff, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020, $34.99). Pp. 538. isbn 970
Jennifer Harford Vargas, Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, £41.99). Pp. 260. isbn019 064 2858.0
Marc Howard Ross, Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, $39.95). Pp. 320. isbn978 0 8122 5038 1.0
The Political Uses of Food Protests: Analyzing the 1910 Meat Boycott0
A “Monument to the American and Filipino Alliance for Freedom”: The Pacific War Memorial and Second World War Remembrance0
Alin Fumurescu, Compromise and the American Founding: The Quest for the People's Two Bodies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, $99.99). Pp. 266. isbn 978 1 1084 1587 3.0
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Reading Resistances in Ralph Waldo Emerson and José Martí0
“I Take the Pictures as I See Them”: Doris Derby as Womanist, Activist and Photographer in the Civil Rights Movement0
Edward Sugden (ed.), Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Junctures of Time, Space, Self, and Politics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, $110.00). Pp. 272. isbn 0
Aaron Cohen, Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019, $20.00). Pp. 272. isbn 978 0 2261 7607 9.0
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Dwelling with(out) Others: Family Dysfunction in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland0
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Beyond the Map: How to Decolonize the History of US Empire0
Geoffrey Sanborn, The Value of Herman Melville (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, £12.99). Pp. 161. isbn 978 1 1084 5291 5.0
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Kirsten MacLeod, American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siècle: Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2018, CA$90.00). Pp. 508. isbn 978 1 4426 43160
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Louis Moore, I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880–1915 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017, $27.95). Pp. 240. isbn978 0 2520 8287 0.0
Heike Schaefer, American Literature and Immediacy: Literary Innovation and the Emergence of Photography, Film, and Television (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, £75.00). Pp. 311. isbn<0
“A Sort of Public Living Room”: Ignorance and the Racial Management of Disorder in Postwar Los Angeles0
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Sharon Monteith, SNCC's Stories: The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020, $34.95). Pp. xx + 360. isbn 978 0 8203 5802 4.0
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“The Epitome of Black Masculinity”: Isaac Hayes, Black Moses, and the Long Freedom Struggle0
Joan Marie Johnson, Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870–1967 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017, $39.95). Pp. 320. isbn 978 1 460
Shelby Harriel, Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019, $25.00). Pp. 161. isbn 978 1 4968 2201 7.0
Steven Cohan, Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, £22.99). Pp. 251. isbn 978 0 1908 6577 1.0
Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s0
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Toward a Democracy of Seeing: William Eggleston and the Achievement of Southern Photography0
Thomas Strychacz, Kitchen Economics (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2020, $54.95). Pp. 172. isbn 978 0 8173 2058 4.0
Jennifer A. Jones, The Browning of the New South (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019, $30.00). Pp. 336. isbn 978 0 2266 0098 7.0
John Morán González and Laura Lomas (eds.), The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018, $180.00). Pp. 855. isbn 978 1 100
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, £12.99). Pp. 232. isbn 978 0 1906 2536 8.0
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The White Fraud: White Elephants, Siam, and Comparative Racialization0
Lauren Kroiz, Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018, $65.00). Pp. 312. isbn 978 0 5202 8656 6.0
Kandice Chuh, The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “after Man” (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, $23.95). Pp. 192. isbn 978 1 4780 0092 1.0
NOW I CAN WRITE: THE TENACITY AND ENDURANCE OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S THE SOUND AND THE FURY0
Markets and Players: Plotting Poverty and Citizenship in Matthew Desmond's Evicted0
Jamin Wells, Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020, $29.95). Pp. 258. isbn 978 1 4696 6090 5.0
Hollywood Film behind the Iron Curtain: Cold War Nostalgias inChuck Norris vs Communism(2015)0
STUDS TERKEL'S HARD TIMES: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION0
Katie Batza, Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, $45.00/£39.00). Pp. 192. isbn 978 0 8122 5013 8.0
Katharina Donn, The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century (New York: Routledge, 2021, £34.99). Pp. 160. isbn 978 0 3674 5746 4.0
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David R. Swartz, Facing West: American Evangelicals in an Age of Global Christianity (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, £22.99). Pp. 320. isbn 0 19025 0801.0
Elsa Court, The American Roadside in Emigré Literature, Film and Photography, 1955–1985 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, £44.99). Pp. xii + 193. isbn 978 3 0303 6735 0.0
Food, Health and Welfare in the Long Twentieth Century: Introduction0
Maryanne A. Rhett, Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880–1922 (London: Bloomsbury, 2020, $135.00 cloth, $40.95 paper). Pp. 137. isbn 978 1 3500 7324 1, 978 1 3501 9627 8.0
Mark Boonshoft, Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020, $95.00). Pp. 296. isbn 978 1 4696 5953 40
Steven Belletto and Joseph Keith (eds.), Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019, $85.00). Pp. 299. isbn 978 1 6093 8631 3.0
Constructions of Racial Savagery in Early Twentieth-Century US Narratives of White Civilization0
Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein, The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality (New York: Viking, 2019, $35.00). Pp. 464. isbn978 0 5255 5750 0.0
Jerome Slater, Mythologies without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1917–2020 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, $29.95). Pp. 393. isbn 978 0 1904 5908 6.0
Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Crossing B(l)ack: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2013, $33.00). Pp. 171. isbn 978 1 5723 3930
Economies of Prestige and the Editorial Program Era: Literary Sociology and Tim Groenland's The Art of Editing0
Gossip on Main Street: Visualizing Oral Exchange in Mid-Twentieth-Century Small-Town Photography and Art0
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (New York: The New Press, 2016, £10.00/$13.00). Pp. 390. isbn978 1 6209 7349 3.0
Californians and Others: Children's Health, Nutrition, and Welfare in Depression-Era Migrant Camps0
Jesse Raber, Progressivism's Aesthetic Education: The Bildungsroman and the American School, 1890–1920 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, $59.99). Pp. 208. isbn 978 3 3199 0043 8.0
Jason T. Sharples, The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, $45.00). Pp. 328. isbn 978 0 8122 520
Joseph M. Adelman, Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing the News, 1763–1789 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019, $54.95). Pp. 203. isbn 978 1 4214 2860 4.0
Writing the History of Pandemics in the Age of COVID-190
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The Anarchy of Children's Archives: Citizenship and Empire in the Global 1930s0
Zachary Leader, The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965–2005 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018, $40.00). Pp. xii + 767. isbn978 1 1018 7516 2.0
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Erin M. Kempker, Big Sister: Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2018, $24.95). Pp xii + 201. isbn 978 00
John Michael, Secular Lyric: The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018, $35.00). Pp. 255. isbn978 0 8232 7972 2.0
Kirk Curnutt, William Faulkner (London: Reaktion Books, 2018, £11.99). Pp. 196. isbn978 1 7802 3998 9.0
Catherine Keyser, Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, £47.99). Pp. 240. isbn 978 0 1906 7312 3.0
The “Open Sore of America”: Race and the American Congo Reform Movement, 1885–19080
Kinohi Nishikawa, Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018, $15.12). Pp. 305. isbn 978 0 2265 8691 5.0
Tom F. Wright'sTransatlantic Rhetoricas an American Studies Teaching Resource0
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz (eds.), Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines (Oakland: University of Californ0
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Lisa Blee and Jean M. O'Brien, Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019, $29.95). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 4696 4840 8.0
Yuan Shu, Otto Heim, and Kendall Johnson (eds.), Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019, $72.00). Pp. 308. isb0
Robert F. Zeidel, Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse: Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization (Ithaca, NY and London: Northern Illinois University Press, 2020, $49.95). P0
Lynne Curry, Religion, Law, and the Medical Neglect of Children in the United States, 1870–2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, £54.99). Pp. ix + 197. isbn 978 3 0302 4688 4.0
M. Scott Heerman, The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730–1865 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, £37.00). Pp. 248. isbn 9780
Sarah Ehlers, Left of Poetry: Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019, $90.00). Pp. i + 222. isbn 978 1 4696 5127 9.0
Jon Gordon, Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts, and Fictions (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015, $45.00). Pp. 288. isbn978 1 7721 2036 3.0
Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham, From Slavery to Civil Rights: On the Streetcars of New Orleans, 1830s–Present (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, £19.95). Pp. 257. isbn 978 1 8003 48550
The Showmen's Culture: Life, Labor, and Negotiated Loyalty among Traveling Entertainment Workers in the Gilded Age0
“Death or Liberty”: Henry Box Brown “Personificating” Himself in Edward Gascoigne Burton's The Fugitive Free and The Nubian Captive0
Malinda Maynor Lowery, The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018, $30.00). Pp. 328. isbn978 1 4696 4637 4.0
Matthew Lockwood, To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019, $30.00). Pp. 523. isbn 978 0 3002 3225 7.0
Brett Goodin, From Captives to Consuls: Three Sailors in Barbary and Their Self-Making across the Early American Republic, 1770–1840 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, $49.95). Pp. 210.0
Kate Clarke Lemay, with Susan Goodier, Martha S. Jones, and Lisa Tetrault (eds.), Votes for Women! A Portrait of Persistence (Washington, DC and Princeton, NJ: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian I0
Martin Dines, The Literature of Suburban Change (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, £85.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 4744 2648 0.0
Seth Cotlar and Richard J. Ellis (eds.), Historian in Chief: How Presidents Interpret the Past to Shape the Future (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, $38.36). Pp. 274. isbn0
Stanley Harrold, American Abolitionism: Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times into Reconstruction (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2019, $39.50). Pp. 296. isbn0
Magdelana J. Zaborowska, Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2018, $28.95/£21.99). Pp. 408. isbn978 0 8223 6983 7.0
Michael Nott, Photopoetry 1845–2015: A Critical History (New York and London: Bloomsbury Visual, 2018, £102.00). Pp. 202. isbn978 1 5013 3223 4.0
James Meredith, Three Years in Mississippi (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019, $30.00). Pp. xxvi + 318. isbn978 1 4968 2106 5.0
Horsepower: Animals, Automobiles, and an Ethic of (Car) Care in Early US Road Narratives0
Ira Nadel, Philip Roth: A Counterlife (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, £22.99). Pp. 568. isbn 978 0 1998 4610 8.0
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Gender Inequalities and Academic Journal Publishing: The View from the Journal of American Studies0
Peniel E. Joseph, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (New York: Basic Books, 2020, £25.00). Pp. 384. isbn 978 1 5416 1786 5.0
Mark Whalan, World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, $39.99). Pp. 273. isbn 978 1 1084 7383 5.0
Benjamin Mountford and Stephen Tuffnel (eds.), A Global History of Gold Rushes (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018, $29.95/£24.00). Pp. 336. isbn978 0 5202 9455 4.0
Michella M. Marino, Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021, $35.00). Pp. 296. isbn 978 1 4773 2382 3.0
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Hester Blum, The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, $26.95). Pp. 328. isbn978 1 4780 0387 8.0
Jennifer C. Lena, Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019, $29.95/£25.00). Pp. 256. isbn 978 0 6911 5891 4.0
Naomi Greyser, On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, $73.00). Pp. 272. isbn 978 0 1900
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Rabbi Balfour Brickner, Interreligious Dialogue, and the Ironies of Liberal Zionism in America, 1967‒19800
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Ann Mattis, Dirty Work: Domestic Service in Progressive Women's Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019, $75.00). Pp. 248. isbn 978 0 4721 3129 7.0
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Aimee Bahng, Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017, $94.95 hardback, $24.95 paperback). Pp. xvi +170. isbn978 0 8223 6364 4, 0
Marshall Boswell, The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination (London: Bloomsbury, 2019, £57.60 hardcover, £17.99 paperback). Pp. xiii + 170. isbn 9780
Sweep the Nation by Song: The Townsend Plan, Old-Age Pensions, and Popular Music0
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William Sturkey, Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2019, $29.95). Pp. 309. isbn 978 0 6749 7635 1.0
Navigating Intimate Geohistories in Keguro Macharia's Frottage - Keguro Macharia, Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (New York: New York University Press, 2019, $27.00). 0
Thomas Doherty, Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, $29.95 hardcover, $18.95 paperback). Pp. 406. isbn978 0 2311 8778 7.0
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Native Bondage, Narrative Mobility: African American Accounts of Indian Captivity0
Celeste-Marie Bernier, Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965–2015 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018, £66.00). Pp. xx + 318. isbn978 0 5202 8653 5.0
Elizabeth E. Sine, Rebel Imaginaries: Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021, $27.95). Pp. 320. isbn 978 1 4780 1137 8.0
Better Intoned Than Read: Sound and Matter in God's Trombones0
Ezra Tawil, Literature, American Style: The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, $75.00). Pp. 257. isbn 978 0 8122 5037 4.0
Robert Pee and William Michael Schmidli (eds.), The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, €103.99). Pp. 28 + 301. isbn0
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Karen E. H. Skinazi, Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018, $27.95). Pp. 20
Rebecca Tuuri, Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018, $29.95). Pp. 338. isbn 978 1 40
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Matthew R. Bahar, Storm of the Sea: Indians & Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, $35.00). Pp. 220. isbn978 0 1908 7424 7.0
A. Robert Lee (ed.), Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018, $57.53). Pp. 196. isbn978 0 8248 7294 6.0
Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020, $99.00 cloth, $30.00 paperback). Pp. 233. isbn 978 1 4968 2970 2.0
Bruce Holsapple, The Birth of the Imagination: William Carlos Williams on Form (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016, $59.95). Pp. xiv + 415. isbn978 0 8263 5760 1.0
Mark Newman, Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945–1992 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018, $30.00). Pp. xviii + 455. isbn978 1 4968 1890
In Practice: Teaching Environmental American Studies in a Time of Crisis0
Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder, A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections since Suffrage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, £19.00). Pp. 308. isbn 978 1 3169 41330
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