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A

Atomic Tourism in the United States: The Attraction of Nuclear Bombs and Radiation

B

By Land and by Water: The Problem of Mobility in American Slavery

C

Cosmopolitan Captives: Globe-trotting Slaves in the Age of Secession

E

Empire's Castaway: An Adventurer and the Nineteenth-Century World

F

"Fling Open the Gates So Wide": How Travel and Public Places Transformed Community and National Identity in the United States, 1789-1876

Far from Sanctuary: African American Travel in the Twentieth Century

Franklin's Fins: Bodies, Travel, and Print in the Long Eighteenth Century

G

Gender, Jim Crow, and American Railroads

Global West, American Frontier: Travelers' Accounts of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American West

H

His Lover and Friend Too, in Which a Hawaiian Chief Takes an English Captain as a Lover, Explores the Pacific, Cultivates His Power, Is Killed in Battle, and Changes the Way We Think about the "Age of Exploration"

How the Automobile Transformed the American Metropolis

I

Independence, Neo-imperialism, and the Postcolonial Stewardess

Indians on the Road: Tourism, Travel, and Tribal Identity

R

Race, Aviation, and Social Change: The African American in Early Aviation

Railroads, Hazard, and the Recasting of Individual Liberty

S

Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark, and the West

T

"The World is Ours, Too": Black Women, Global Activism, and the New Black Travel Movement

The Pacific: Connecting the Largest Ocean in the World

Travel and Terror: Exploding Steamboats and the Popular Culture of Antebellum America

Traveling Black, Buying Black: Race on the Road during the Jim Crow Era

Y

York: The Slave on the Lewis and Clark Expedition