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"Awful Calamity": Sentiment, Gender, and Nation in the Richmond Theater Fire of 1811
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
A Cultural History of America's Thanksgiving
A Cultural History of Wall Street
A Nation without Class: A Social History of Inequality since the 1970s
A Passion for Liberty: Emotional Rhetoric and the American Revolution
A War for the Soul of America
African American Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
African Americans and American Popular Culture, 1890-1930
Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture Is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul
American Cosmopolitanism: Rabindranath Tagore and His Impact on American Readers in the Early Twentieth Century
Are We A Nation? New Perspectives on the Emergence of Modern America, 1896-1929
B
"Back in the U.S.A." The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll and 1950s America
"Born on the Fourth of July": Musical Celebrations of America's Independence
Baseball as History/History as Baseball
Blue-Collar Cosmopolitans: Toward a History of Working-Class Sophistication
Born to Shop? Consumerism and the American Woman
C
Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude: The 1970s' Shift in American Culture and Politics
Come Back Tom Joad: The Legacy of the 1930s
Community Building and Dismantling in Contemporary Asian American History
D
Did Tecumseh Stamp his Foot? Earthquakes and Legend in the South
E
El Sabor de la Patria: Mexican Restaurants, Cultural Tourists, and "Authenticity" in Early Mexican Chicago
Hamilton: A New American Civic Myth?
Emotion and Encounter: Early Atlantic Accounts
Evangelicalism and the Rise of the Sunbelt
Explosive Issues: Sex, Women, and the Bomb in Post–World War II America
F
"Fling Open the Gates So Wide": How Travel and Public Places Transformed Community and National Identity in the United States, 1789-1876
Fashion Forward? The Environmental History of Style
Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880–1930
From Grits to the Allman Brothers: Why America Looks to the South for Authentic Culture
H
High Schools, New Girls, and New Women: 1880–1900
High Thoughts and Mass Markets: Philosophy and Popular Culture in American History
Historicizing the Carceral State: Race, Sex, and Power in Early America
History by Hollywood: The Movies’ Impact on Public Opinion
Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday
I
"Into the Fire": September 11, Popular Music, and Public Memory
Irish Americanization on Stage: How Irish Musicians, Playwrights, and Writers Created a New Urban American Culture
Is Birth Control Moral? Margaret Sanger and Changing Views of Contraception
K
Keeping It from the Kids: Censorship as Child Protection in Modern America
L
Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Creating Plantation Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790–1860
Landscapes of Segregation: Race, Recreation and Resistance in Modern America
Learning about America from Starbucks
Living in the Material World: American Housework in Historical Perspective
Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and the New American City
LOSER! How Trump's Favorite Insult Became Our Hugest Fear
M
Memorial Mania: Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America
Missouri Miners Breaking Bad: How the "Show-Me State" Got Its Name
Multiculturalism
Music as a Mode of Communication in Cross-cultural Encounters
N
Narcissism in the Age of Trump
Nationalism, Nativism, and Fear in American History
New Directions in Worker and Community
New Right Beauty: Race, Gender, and American Conservatism’s Aesthetic Politics since 1945
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Not Your Grandmother's Grandmother: Changes in Popular Culture Images of the American Grandmother in the Twentieth Century
O
"Our Newcomers to the City": The Great Migration and the Making of Modern Mass Culture
P
Pan-Africanism and Black Nationalism
Pictures of Feeling: Norman Rockwell's Affection for America
Popular Culture Goes To War: John Wayne, Joe Louis, Superman, and American Culture during World War II
Public Feeling, Public Healing: Contemporary Memorials and the Mediation of Grief
S
Scandal at Bizarre: Sex, Rhetoric, and Reality in Jefferson's America
Sex and the City: Jane Addams Confronts Prostitution
Smoking Hot!: The Synergistic Rise of Jazz and Cigarettes from the United States to China
Snake Oil Revisited: Household Medicine and Herbal Commerce in a Developing Consumer Society
So Far from Home: Negotiating Cultural, Environmental, and Community Survival in Early Mexican Chicago
Society Ladies and Political Parties: A Study in American Women's History
Soviet Prisoners, Berlin Exiles, and the Rise of Anti-Communism in the United States
Spanish Manila and the First American Chinatown
Stayin' Alive: Class and Popular Culture in the 1970s
T
The American Invention of Spirituality
The Changing Landscape of Love, Sex, Singlehood, and Marriage
The Cowboy Suit Tragedy: Owning Hazard in the Modern American Consumer Economy
The Culture Wars in Higher Education
The Declaration of Dependence: Voluntary Annexation, Salvadoran Statehood, and the Monroe Doctrine
The Domestic Impact of World War II
The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Buffalo, New York, and the Pan American Exposition, 1901
The Huntington Challenge: Latino History, American Culture, and the Future of Diversity in the United States
The Julia Child Project: Food in Mid-century American Life
The Long Rise and Short Decline of American Democracy
The Long Shadow of William James: Pragmatism in American Culture since 1870
The Military History of American Beauty Pageants
The Moon and Moonshine: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of the Invisible World
The Most Influential Satire in History: Harvey Kurtzman and MAD Magazine
The New American Citizenship and the Challenge of Intersectionality
The Nightmare Year 1968 and Rock Music
The Oddities of American History and the Possibility of Systemic Change in the Twenty-first Century
The Panic-less Panic: The Strange Career of the Panic of 1837
The Politics of Dress: Gender, Imperialism, and Modernity
The Politics of Toughness: Conservatism, Masculinity, and American Culture in the Late Twentieth Century
The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II
The Problem of Culture in U.S. Foreign Relations
The Rise and Fall of the Urban Volunteer Fire Company: Why Nineteenth-Century Citizens Chose to Pay for an Urban Service They Had Previously Received for Free
The Secret History of Property Law
The Silent Majority
The Sixties at 50: 1968 and the New American Cultural Politics
The Social History of the Climate Crisis
The South in American Popular Culture: From Tin Pan Alley to Reality Television
The Stroke of Midnight: New Year's Observances during the Civil War Era
The War for Tennessee, 1792–1794: Indian "Nations," White "Christians," and the Education of Andrew Jackson
The World Turned Inside Out, or Cartoon Politics: American Thought and Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century
To Look for America: From Hiroshima to Woodstock (an impressionistic multi-media presentation on American society after 1945, with a focus on the upheaval of the sixties)
To Swear like a Sailor
Travel and Terror: Exploding Steamboats and the Popular Culture of Antebellum America
Twittering in the Past Tense: Social Technologies of the 1850s
U
Undoing Slavery: Abolition and the Argument over Humanity
Unfamiliar Territory: The Worldwide Transformation of Marriage and Family Life
Unruly Adults and Dissent in the 1950s
W
What's Laundry Got to Do with It?
Whatever Happened to Healthy Narcissism?
When Benjamin Franklin Worried about the Swarthy Germans: How Anxiety about Immigrants Shaped the United States
Why Joe Louis Matters: Race, Masculinity, and Culture
Why Women's History Matters
Y
Yiddish Heritage and the Jewish Role in American Popular Culture
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