American Studies

Fallout Shelter Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War David Monteyne 2011 Spring

Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War

The American Dream in Vietnamese Nhi T. Lieu 2011 Spring

Fantasy, desire, and community in Vietnamese American popular culture

Henry James and the Queerness of Style Kevin Ohi 2011 Spring

The true meaning of being fashionably late in Henry James’s late works

Developing Animals Wildlife and Early American Photography Matthew Brower 2010 Fall

How the emergence of wildlife photography changed the way we think about animals

The Parent as Citizen A Democratic Dilemma Brian Duff 2010 Fall

How ideas about parenthood undermine politics

Claiming Others Transracial Adoption and National Belonging Mark C. Jerng 2010 Fall

How transracial adoption and its history changes the way we see family, nation, and race

Suspended Animation Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity Nathalie op de Beeck 2010 Fall

An innovative analysis of children’s picture books from the interwar period in America

Dream Factories of a Former Colony American Fantasies, Philippine Cinema José B. Capino 2010 Fall

How the Philippine postcolonial imagination represents the American colonizer

Who Speaks for Margaret Garner? Mark Reinhardt 2010 Fall

A fascinating documentary history of the fugitive slave case that captivated the nation—and inspired Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel Beloved.

The Other Emerson Branka Arsić and Cary Wolfe, Editors 2010 Fall

New readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson that reclaim his work for philosophy

Service Economies Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea Jin-kyung Lee 2010 Fall

A compelling alternative narrative of the modern ‘miracle’ of South Korea

The Contours of America’s Cold War Matthew Farish 2010 Fall

How new ideas of space contributed to a broad mobilization of American power

A Black Soldier’s Story The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence Ricardo Batrell 2010 Fall

The autobiographical account of an Afro-Cuban soldier who fought in the Cuban War of Independence—available in English for the first time

The Common Pot The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Lisa Brooks 2008 Fall

Illuminates the significance of writing to colonial-era Native American resistance

Yellow Future Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema Jane Chi Hyun Park 2010 Fall

Tracing the significance of oriental style in contemporary Hollywood cinema

Queer Twin Cities Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project Kevin P. Murphy, Jennifer L. Pierce and Larry Knopp, Editors 2010 Fall

A pioneering look at the queer history, politics, and spaces of the Twin Cities

This Is Not Florida How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount Jay Weiner 2010 Fall

The behind-the-scenes story of the historic Franken-Coleman Minnesota Senate recount

The Dallas Myth The Making and Unmaking of an American City Harvey J. Graff 2010 Fall

An unconventional—and critical—examination of ‘the city with no past’

Navigating the African Diaspora The Anthropology of Invisibility Donald Martin Carter 2010 Spring

Diaspora seen through the lenses of political economy and cultural production

Removing Mountains Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields Rebecca R. Scott 2010 Fall

Coal country lives in southern West Virginia

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