American Studies
- Barnstorming the Prairies How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest Jason Weems 2015 Fall
- How flight led to a new view of the Midwest, making it the center of the nation in more ways than one
- Peace Corps Fantasies How Development Shaped the Global Sixties Molly Geidel 2015 Fall
- How the 1960s Peace Corps’ gendered modernization ideology shaped social movements across the Americas
- The Value of Homelessness Managing Surplus Life in the United States Craig Willse 2015 Fall
- How social welfare and social science came to reinforce, not combat, racialized housing insecurity
- Measuring Manhood Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934 Melissa N. Stein 2015 Fall
- A major new history of scientific racism in the United States
- Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Carly A. Kocurek 2015 Fall
- How and why video gaming culture became the domain of young men and boys
- Martin Heidegger Saved My Life Grant Farred 2015 Fall
- Could there be a bigger paradox than the black man using Martin Heidegger to repel the white woman's racism?
- Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring
- What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?
- Making Suburbia New Histories of Everyday America John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul and Katherine Solomonson, Editors 2015 Spring
- Illustrates the astonishing complexity of American suburbia
- A Peculiar Imbalance The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837–1869 William D. Green 2015 Spring
- The untold story of what it meant to be a black member of early Minnesota society
- Already Doing It Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill 2015 Spring
- Exploring and exposing efforts to restrict the sexuality of intellectually disabled people
- Life Support Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor Kalindi Vora 2015 Spring
- How global capitalism has turned human beings into a new form of biocapital
- Zoo Renewal White Flight and the Animal Ghetto Lisa Uddin 2015 Spring
- Race, urban life, and the postwar revitalization of American zoos
- Imagine the Sound Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights Carter Mathes 2015 Spring
- Examines the use of sound in the works of African American writers during the post–Civil Rights era
- The Poitier Effect Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation Sharon Willis 2015 Spring
- Sidney Poitier as an icon of the civil rights era, signifying racial reconciliation without threat to the white status quo
- Physics of Blackness Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology Michelle M. Wright 2015 Spring
- Reveals how assumptions we make about time and space inhibit more inclusive definitions of Blackness
- Slaves of the State Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary Dennis Childs 2015 Spring
- A sweeping cultural history of U.S. prison slavery
- Impossible Heights Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder Adnan Morshed 2014 Fall
- A rich exploration of the influence of skyscrapers, airplanes, and aerial vision on interwar American visual culture
- Building Zion The Material World of Mormon Settlement Thomas Carter 2014 Fall
- What the built environment shows us about the complex and evolving nature of nineteenth-century Mormon social and religious life
- The Way Things Go An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism Aaron Jaffe 2014 Fall
- That rare modernist book: erudite, innovative, thought provoking, and playful
- The American Isherwood James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2014 Fall
- Shines a critical spotlight on the American life of the famed author