Index of Articles in American Studies Theory and Method

Last update: 08/15/03

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• Bluford Adams, "A Stupendous Mirror of Departed Empires:" The Barnum Hippodromes and Circuses and"A Transient Disease:" Barnumism at the World's Columbian Exposition
• McCrea Adams, Advertising Characters: The Pantheon of Consumerism.
• John Logan Allen, Imagining the West: The View from Monticello
• Molefi Kete Asante, African American Studies: The Future of the Discipline
• Brian Attebery, American Studies: A Not So Unscientific Method
• Edward Ayers, Introduction:American Regionalism.
• Edward Ayers, What We Talk About When We Talk About the South.
• Irving Babbitt, The Choice We Must Face: Democracy and Imperialism, or Democracy and Standards?
• Irving Babbitt, What is Humanism?
• Houston A. Baker, Jr., Figurations for a New American Literary History.
• Irving Babbitt, The Choice We Must Face: Democracy and Imperialism, Or Democracy and Standards?
• Irving Babbitt, What is Humanism?
• Marua Balshaw, "Black Was White": Urbanity, Passing and the Spectacle of Harlem
• Diane Barthel, A Gentleman and a Consumer.
• Roland Barthes, Myth Today, Striptease, Toys, Wrestling,from Mythologies.
• Nina Baym, Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors.
• Silvio A. Bedini, The Role of Automata in the History of Technology.
• Warren J. Belasco, Toward a Culinary Common Denomiator: The Rise of Howard Johnsons, 1925-1940
• Daniel Bell, The Once-Born, the Twice-Born, and the After-Bornfrom The End of Ideology
• Daniel Bell, Excerpts from the Conclusion, from: The End of Ideology.
• Clarisa Bencomo and Elliott Colla, Area Studies, Multiculturalism, and the Problems of Expert Knowledge.
• Klaus Benesch, Technology and American Culture: An Introduction
• Sacvan Bercovitch, The Problem of Ideology in American Literature.
• Peter Berger, Society as Drama
• Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., A New Context for a New American Studies?
• Lauren Berlant, Notes on Diva Citizenshipfrom The Queen of America Goes to WashingtonPart I,Part II,part IIIandPart IV
• Ronald Berman, How Television Sees its Audience: A Look at the Looking Glass
• Ronald Berman, Soaps Day and Night from How Television Sees its Audience.
• Albert Beveridge, The March of the Flag
• Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas.
• John G. Blair, Structuralism, American Studies, and the Humanities
• William Boelhower, Inventing America: a model of cartographic semiosis
• Allan C. Bogue, An Agricultural Empire from The Oxford History of the American West, pts I, II and III
• Randolph Bourne, Trans-National America
• Bernard b, Leo Marx, & Arnold Rose, Literature and Covert Culture.
• David Branham Of Thee I Sing": Contesting America
• Marcela Breton, An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Jazz Stories
• Collin Gifford Brooke, The Fate of Rhetoric in an Electronic Age.
• Bill Brown, American Childhood and Stephen Crane's Toys, Part I and Part II
• Bill Brown, Introduction to The Material Unconscious:
• Tine Bruland, Industrial Conflict as a Source of Technical Innovation: Three Cases.
• Laurence Buell, American Pastoral Ideology Reappraised.
• Laurence Buell, Are We Post-American Studies?
• Lawrence Buell, It's Good, But is it History?
• Peter Burke, The New History, its Past and Future
• Kathleen Burnett, Toward a Theory of Hypertextual Design.
• Robert Cantwell, Feasts of Unnaming: Folk Festivals and the Representation of Folklife.
• Jane Caputi, IBM's Charlie Chaplin: A Case Study.
• John G. Cawelti, Literary Formulas, Hammett, Chandler and Spillane, and The Western: A Look at the Evolution of a Formula from Murder, Mystery and Romance.
• Hazel Carby, The Souls of Black MenPart IandPart II
• Andrew Carnegie, Wealth
• Gary Carson, Material Culture: The Scholarship Nobody Knows
• Santa Casciani, (Re)creating Italian American Hisoriography: Astoria and the Truth of Narrative.
• Jeffrey Cass, Cyberspace, Capitalism, and Encoded Criminality: The Iconography of the Theme Park
• Russ Castronovo, Fathering the Nation: American Geneologies of Race and Freedom,Part IandPart II
• Rey Chow, Digging an Old Well: The Labor of Social FantasyPart Iand Part II
• Christopher Claussen, National Literatures in English: Toward a New Paradigm.
• G. N. G. Clarke, Taking possession: the cartouche as cultural text in eighteenth-century American maps
• Anthony Cohen, Culture as Identity: An Anthropologists Perspective.
• Lizabeth Cohen, Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s
• Terry Cooney, Challenge and Persistence, New Deals and Old, and Popular Culture and the Dance of Values from Balancing Acts: American Thought and Character in the 1930s
• Ruth Schwartz Cowan, The “Industrial Revolution” in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century.
• Malcolm Cowley, A Farewell to the 1930s
• Malcolm Cowley, What the Revolutionary Movement can do for a Writer
• Kathleen Neils Cozzen, A Saga of Families pts I, II and III
• William Cronon, Landscapes of Abundance and Scarcity, parts I , II and III
• Frederick Crews, The New Americanists.
• Frederick Crews, Whose American Renaissance?
• The Critical Art Ensemble, The Technology of Uselessness.
• Paul Cutright, Prologue to Discovery from Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists
• Daniel Czitrom, The Ethereal Hearth from Media and the American Mind
• Robert Darnton, Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre in the Rue Severain.
• Cathy N. Davidson, Loose Change American Studies Association Presidential Address.
• Cathy N. Davidson, Texts as Histories from Revolution and the Word.
• Allen F. Davis, The Politics of American Studies.
• James Deetz, I would Have the Howse Stronge in Timber, from In Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early American Life.
• Frederick Lewis Dekker, Disassembling the Machine in the Garden: Anti-humanism and the New American Studies.
• Michael Denning, "The Special American Conditions:" Marxism and American Studies
• Michael Denning, Arthurian Knights in Connecticut Factores from Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America.
• Only a Mechanic's Daughter from Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America.
• Jane C. Desmond and Virginia R. Domínguez, Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism
• Elizabeth Maddox Dillon, Fear of Formalism: Kant, Twain, and Cultural Studies in American Literature
• Paul Dimaggio, Cultural Entrepreneurship in 19th C. Boston: the creation of an organizational base for high culture in America
• Mary Douglas, Deciphering a Meal
• J. Yellowlees Douglas, Gaps, Maps, and Perception: What Hypertext Readers (Don't) Do
• Peter F. Drucker, The First Technological Revolution and Its Lessons.
• Ann duCille, The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies
• Umberto Eco, Casablanca, or, the Cliches Are Having a Ball.
• Umberto Eco, The Fortress of Solitude from Travels in Hyperreality.
• Umberto Eco, Narrative Structures in Fleming
• Jonathan Elmer, The Archive, The Native American, and Jefferson's Convulsions
• Gary Engle, What Makes Superman So Darned American?
• Francis T. Evans, Roads, Railways, and Canals: Technical Choices in 19th century Britain, from Technology and Culture, Vol.22, 1981
• Stuart Ewen, Goods and Surfaces from Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture.
• Susan Faludi, Teen Angels and Tart-Tongued Witches
• Grant Farred, First Stop, Port-au-Prince: Mapping Postcolonial Africa through Toussaint L'Ouverture and his Black Jacobins
• Paula Fass, Making and Remaking an Event: The Leopold and Loeb Case in American Culture
• Eugene S. Ferguson, Technical Museums and International Exhibitions.
• Benjamin Filene, Setting the Stage: Identifying an American Folk Musical Heritage, 1900-1930 from Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music.
• David Hackett Fischer, Four British Folkways in America: The Origin and Persistence of Regioinal Cultures in the United States from Albion's Seed.
• Phillip Fisher, The New American Studies: From Myths to Rhetorics.
• William Fisher, Of Living Machines and Living-Machines: Blade Runner and the Terminal Genre.
• John Fiske, The Jeaning of America and Commodities and Culture from Understanding Popular Culture. from Understanding Culture.
• George Fitzhugh, Selection fromSociology for the South.
• Stephen Fjellman, Theses on Disney
• Dan Flores, A Very Different Story: Exploring the Southwest from Monticello with the Freeman and Custis Expedition, pts I and II
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Between Individualism and Fragmentation: American Culture and the New Literary Studies of Race and Gender. Waldo Frank, Land of the Wop, Home of the Kike, from Our America.
• Ted Friedman, The World of 'The World of Coca-Cola'
• John Frow, Class and Cultural Capital
• Vivien Green Fryd, "Political Compromise in Public Art: Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom"
• Helen Galkina, Theoretical Approaches to Ethnic Identity
• David Gebhard, The Moderne in the U.S., 1920-1941
• Clifford Geertz, Ideology As a Cultural System.
• Clifford Geertz, Thick Description.
• Peter Gibian, The Art of Being Off-Center:Shopping Center Spaces and Spectacles.
• Henry Giroux, David Shumway, Paul Smith, and James Sosnoski, The Need for Cultural Studies: Resisting Intellectuals and Oppositional Public Spheres
• Susan A. Glenn, "Give an Imitation of Me": Vaudeville Mimics and the Play of the Self
• Gregor Goethals, Sacred and Secular Icons.
• Mike Gold, Towards Proletarian Art
• Avery Gordon and Christopher Newfield, White Philosophy
• Ian Gordon, From Caricature to Comic Strips: The Shaping of Comic Art as Commodity, Comic Strips, National Culture, and Marketing, and The Comic Book: Comics as an Independent Commodity 1936-1945
• Ian Gordon,Envisioning Consumer Culture: 'Gasoline Alley' and 'Winnie Winkle'
• Linda Gordon, What's New in Womens' Studies?
• Henry Giroux, et al, The Need for Cultural Studies: Resisting Intellectuals and Oppositional Public Spheres.
• Norman Graebner, The NOrthwest Coast in World Diplomacy, 1790-1846
• Gerald Graff, The Promise of American Studies.
• Clement Greenburg, Avant-Garde and Kitsch
• Susan Gubar, Notations 'in Media Res'
• Susan Gubar, from Racechanges, Part I, Part II, and Part III.
• Susan Gubar, What Ails Feminist Criticism?
• James Guimond, Signs of Hard Times from American Photography and the American Dream, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2
• Ramon A. Guitierrez, Community, Patriarchy and Individualism: The Politics of Chicano History and the Dream of Equality
• Jay Gurlan, American Studies and the Creative Present.
• Jurgen Habermas, The Public Sphere from On Society and Politics.
• Sheldon Hackney, Roundtable: The National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity
• Grace Hale, Producing the Ground of Differencefrom Making Whiteness
• H. Lark Hall, Styles of Mind 1927 from V. L. Parrington: Through the Avenue of Art.
• Stuart Hall, Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms Part Iand Part II
• Stuart Hall, What is this "Black" in Black Popular Culture?
• Ben Halpern, Myth and Ideology in Modern Usage
• Kendra Hamilton, Thoughts on the Reconstruction of the Laboring Community at University of Virginia.
• Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, from Empire: Preface, The Political Constitution of the Present, Bipolitical Production, and Alternatives within Empire
• Harper, Eloquence and Epitaph: Aids, Homophobia, and the Problematics of Black Masculinity
• Katherine Hayles, Chaos as Disorderly Order
• Earl W. Hayter, Barbed Wire Fencing - A Prairie Invention.
• James A. Henretta, Social History as Lived and Written
  • commentary by Darrett Rutman and Robert Berkhofer and
  • a response by James Henretta
• Amanda J. Higgins, Photo/Modern: Theks of Alfred Stieglitz and Henning Svenson
• John Highham, The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1990s
• Brooke Hindle, A Retrospective View of Science, Technology, and Material Culture in Early American History.
• Darlene Clark Hine, The Black Studies Movement: Afrocentric-Traditionalist-Feminist Paradigms for the Next Stage
• Richard Hofstadter, Vernon L. Parrington from The Progressive Historians.
• W. D. Howells, The Man of Letters as a Man of Business.
• W. D. Howells, Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories
• Bell Hooks, Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister?
• Neil Howe & William Strauss, The New Generation Gap
• Irving Howe, Black Boys and Native Sons
• Martyn Hudson, The Clerk of the Foresters Record: John Berger, the Dead, and the Writing of History.
• Louis C. Hunter, The Heroic Theory of Invention
• T. H. Huxley, On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automota and Its History
• Joseph Irrante, The Road to Autopia: The Automobile and the Spatial Transformation of American Culture.
• Russell Jacoby, A New Intellectual History?
  • response by Dominick La Capra
• Kenneth Jackson, The Transportation Revolution and the Erosion of the City, from: Crabgrass Frontier.
• John A. Jakle, The American Gasoline Station: 1920-1970
• Henry James, Introduction from Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Frederick Jameson, Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: "Dog Day Afternoon" as a Political Film
• Frederick Jameson, Postmodernism: or the Logic of Late Industrial Capitolism.
• Dolores E. Janiewski, 'Confusion of Mind:' Colonial and Post-Colonial Discourses about Frontier Encounters
• Rosemary Jann, Sherlock Holmes Codes the Social Body
• Myra Jehlen, Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism.
• David E. Johnson and Scott Michaelson, Border Secrets: An Introduction
• Alfred Haworth Jones, The Search for a Usable Past in the New Deal Era
• Joyce Joyce, The Black Canon.
• Michael Kammen, The Problem of American Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration
• Amy Kaplan, Left Alone America: The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture
• James Kavanaugh, The Artifact in American Culture: The Development of an Undergraduate Curriculum.
• R. Gordon Kelly, The Social Construction of Reality: Implications for the Future Direction in American Studies
• Linda Kerber, Diversity and the Transformation of American Studies.
• Linda Kerber, The Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment -- an American Perspective.
• Judith B. Kerman, Technology and Politics in the "Blade Runner" Dystopia
• Judith B. Kerman, Retrofitting "Blade Runner"
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate.
• Marge Kibby, Cyberorgasm: Machines and Male Hysteria in Films of the Eighties
• James Kissane and John M. Kissane, Sherlock Holmes and the Ritual of Reason
• Michael J. Klarman, Rethinking the History of American Freedom
• Deborah Knight, Making sense of Genre
• Annette Kolodny, The Integrity of Memory: Creating a New Literary History of the United States.
• James Koolhaus, Whatever Happened to Urbanism?
• John Kouwenhoven, Stone, Steel, and Jazz,fromMade in America
• John Kouwenhoven, What is Vernacular?
• Arthur Kroker, Digital Humanism: The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan
• Joan Kron, The Semiotics of Home Decor.
• Bruce Kucklich, Myth and Symbol in American Studies.
• Peter J. Kuznick, Losing the World of Tomorrow: The Battle over the Presentation of Science at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
• Earle Labor, Jack London's Symbolic Wilderness: Four Versions
• Jacques Lacan, Seminar on "The Purloined Letter"
• Dominick LaCapra, Intellectual History and its Ways
• Christopher Lane, The Poverty of Context: Historicism and Nonmimetic Fiction.
• Richard Lanham, The Electronic Word: Literary Study and the Digital Revolution.
• Paul Lauter, The Literatures of America: A Comparative Discipline.
• Paul Lauter, Visons of Nashville, Visions of America ASA Presidential Address, 1994
• Robert H. Lavenda, Festivals and the Creation of Public Culture: Whose Voice(s)?
• Kathernine Lawrie, Cookie-Cutter Or Connoisseur?
  Genre Theory and John Ford's 'Stagecoach'
• Maurizio Lazzarato, Immaterial Labor
• Edwin Layton, Mirror-Image Twins: The Communities of Science and Technology in 19th-century America.
• T.J.Jackson Lears, Beyond Veblen: Rethinking American Consumer Culture.
• T.J. Jackson Lears, The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities
• Richard Lehan, The Theoretical Limits of the New Historicism.
• David Levin, American Historicism Old and New.
• David Levin, How Uniform Were the Old American Studies?
• Lawrence Levine, The Folklore of Industrial Socity: Popular Culture and Its Audiences
• Lawrence Levine, Jazz and American Culture
• Lawrence Levine, The Historian and the Icon: Photography and the History of the American People in the 1930s and 1940s
• Lawrence Levine American Culture and the Great Depression
• Lawrence Levine, William Shakespeare in America.
• Lawrence Levine, Hollywood's Washington: Film Images of National Politics During the Great Deparession
• Lawrence Levine, Progress and Nostalgia: The Self-Image of the 1920s
• David L. Lewis, Sex and the Automobile: From Rumble Seats to Rockin' Vans.
• George H. Lewis, From Common Dullness to Fleeting Wonder: The Manipulation of Cultural Meaning in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Saga.
• Lisa A. Lewis, Male-Address Video.
• Patricia Nelson Limerick, Insiders and Outsiders: The Borders of the USA and the Limits of the ASA: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, 31 October 1996
• Walter Lippman, from Drift and Mastery
• George Lipsitz, Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen: Popular Culture, Cultural Theory, and American Studies
• George Lipsitz, Popular Culture: This Ain't No Sideshow
• Alan Liu, Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail, Part Iand Part II.
• Henry Demarest LLoyd, The Lords of Industry
• Henry Demarest Lloyd, The Story of a Great Monopoly
• Alain Locke, Enter the New Negro
• Alain Locke, Harlem
• Christopher Looby, George Thompson's "Romance of the Real:" Transgression and Taboo in American Sensation Fiction
• Eric Lott, The Blackening of America: Popular Culture and National Cultures
• Eric Lott, Boomer Liberalism: When the New Left was Old Part I and Part II
• Eric Lott, "Genuine Negro Fun:" Racial Pleasure and Class Formation in the 1840s
• Eric Lott, Love and Theft: The Racial Unconscious of Black Minstrelcy
• Eric Lott, from Love and Theft;Notes
• Eric Lott, White Like Me: Racial Cross Dressing and the Construction of American Whiteness
• Lisa Lowe, Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization: Asian American Critique from Immigrant Acts Part Iand Part II
• James Russell Lowell, Introduction from The Bigelow Papers.
• James Russell Lowell, On Democracy (1868)
• David Lowenthal, Changing the Past,from The Past is a Foreign Country.
• Robert S. Lynd, Getting a Living, The Historical Setting, Traditional Ways of Spending Leisure, Inventions Remaking Leisure, The Organization of Leisure, and The Dominance of Getting a Livingfrom Middletown: A Study in American Culture.
• Kenneth Lynn, The Regressive Historians.
• Dwight Macdonald, Masscult and Midcult from Against the American Grain
• Norman Mailer, The White Negro
• Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
• Roland Marchand, Visions of Classlessness, Quests for Dominion: American Popular Culture, 1945-1960.
• Roland Marchand, The Parable of the Democracy of Goods.
• Robin Markowitz, Canonizing the Popular
• Leo Marx, American Studies A Defense of an Unscientific Method,
• Leo Marx, Sleepy Hollow 1844 from The Machine in the Garden
• Leo Marx, Bernard Bowron, & Arnold Rose, Literature and Covert Culture
• Cotton Mather, General Introduction,Magnalia Christi Americana
• Cotton Mather, Life of Winthrop,Magnalia Christi Americana.
• Elaine Tyler May, "The Radical Roots of American Studies"
• Henry F. May, Shifting Perspectives on the 1920s.
• Bruce Mazlish, The Man-machine and Artificial Intelligence
• Thomas C. McClintock, The Turner Thesis: After Ninethy Years it Still Lives On.'
• Pamela McCorduck, Brass for Brain from Machines Who Think
• Deborah E. McDowell, Pecs and Reps: Muscling in on Race and the Subject of Masculinity
• Robert S. McElvaine, Historical Currents and the Great Depression
• Robert S. McElvaine, Perspective: The Great Depression and Modern America
• James R/ McGovern, The American Woman's Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals
• Margaret T. McFadden, 'America's Boyfriend who Can't Get a Date:' Gender, Race, and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932-1936.
• Gaile McGregor, The Technomyth in Transition: Reading American Popular Culture.
• Jay Mechling, An American Culture Grid, With Texts.
• Jay Mechling, Robert Meredith, David Wilson, American Culture Studies: The Discipline and the Curriculum
• Hugo A. Meier, Technology and Democracy, 1800-1860.
• H. L. Mencken, The Declaration of Independence in American.
• H. L. Mencken, The Land of the Free.
• H. L. Mencken, On Being an American
• H. L. Mencken, Last Words
• Walter Benn Michaels, Autobiography of an Ex-White Man: Why Race is not a Social Constructionand Notes
• David Mikics, Postmodernism,Ethnicity, and Underground Revisionism in Ishmael Reed. (1)"
• David Mikics, Postmodernism,Ethnicity, and Underground Revisionism in Ishmael Reed.(2)
• Gregg Mitman, Cinematic Nature: Hollywood Technology, Popular Culture, and the American Museum of Natural History. Francis J. Molson, The Booy Inventor in American Series Fiction, 1900-1930.
• Paul Elmer Moore, Aristocracy
• Paul Elmer Moore, Wealth and Aristocracy
• Keith Moxey, Semiotics and the Social History of Art.
• Stewart Moulthrop, You Say You Want a Revolution: Hypertext and the Laws of Media.
• Stephen Mulhall, Picturing the Human (Body and Soul): A Reading of Blade Runner
• Susan S. Mulyan, Curriculum Development Report.
• Kevin J. Mumford, Homosex Changes: Race, Cultural Geography, and the Emergence of the Gay
• Jose Esteban Munoz, The White to be Angry Part Iand Part II
• Gerald Murphy, About the Iroquois Constitution.
• Murray G. Murphey, American Civilization as a Discipline. Gerald Nachman, from Raised on Radio, pts I II III IV V
• David Nasaw, from Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements, Pt. 1, Pt.2, and Pt. 3
• Reinhold Neibuhr, Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?from The Irony of American History.
• Dana Nelson, National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men
• Mark Noonan, Understanding the Whole: The American Studies Approach
• Forum on Peter Novick's That Noble Dream:
  • J. H. Hexter
  • Linda Gordon
  • David Hollinger
  • Allan Megill
  • Reply by Peter Novick
  • Afterword by Dorothy Ross
  • Martha Nussbaum, The Professor of Parody.
  Dorothy Ochs, It's a Small World After All, It's a Small World After All, It's a Small World After All, It's a Small, Small World
• Howard Odum, Exploring the Region: The Anthropologists
• Howard Odum, The Middle States and Their "Middle West."
• Howard Odum, Problems and Strategy of Regional Development Towards National Reintegration.
• Peter Onuf, The Expanding Union, pts I and II
• Miles Orvell,Whitman's Transformed Eye, from The Real Thing
• Miles Orvell, A Hieroglyphic World: The Furnishing of Identity, from The Real Thing
• John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny
• David Pace, Structuralism in History and the Social Sciences
• David Palumbo-Liu, Awful Patriotism: Richard Rorty and the Politics of KnowingPart IandPart II
• Michael Parenti, Class and Virtue.
• V.L.Parrington, Introduction and Liberalism and Puritanism from Main Currents in American Thought
• Donald Pease, After the Tocqueville Revival; or, The Return of the Political
• Donald Pease, National Narratives, Postnational Narration
• Donald Pease, Visionary Compacts and the Cold War Consensus.
• Mark Pittenger, A World of Difference: Constructing the 'Underclass' in Progressive America
• Linda Funk Place, et al., The Object as Subject: The Role of Museums and Material Culture Collections in American Studies
• Popular Memory Group, Popular Memory: Theory, Politics, Method.
• Neill Postman, The Typographic Mind From Amusing Ourselves to Death.
• Jules David Prown, Style as Evidence
• David Puente, Getting Around "Blood is Blood": Two Versions of American Identity
• Ian Quimby, Material Culture and the Study of American Life
• Janice Radway, American Studies Reader Theory and the Literary Text
• Janice Radway, The Ideal Romance from Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Pt. I and Pt. II
• Janice Radway, What's in a Name? Presidential Address to the American Studies Association
• Peter Ranier, Antihero Worship.
• John Crowe Ransom, A Statement of Principlesfrom I'll Take My Stand.
• John Crowe Ransom, The South --Old or New?
• Robert B. Ray, The Thematic Paradigm
• John Shelton Reed, The South. Where is it? What is it?from My Tears Spoiled My Aim.
• T.V.Reed, Theory and Method in American Studies/Cultual Studies: A Bibliographical Essay
• William B. Rhoads, The Colonial Revival and American Nationalism
• Adrienne Rich, Taking Women Students Seriously.
• D.N. Rodowick, Audiovisual Culture and Interdisciplinary Knowledge
• Michael Rogin, "The Sword Became a Flashing Vision:" D.W.Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
• Laura Romero, Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and Vanishing Americans.
• Constance Rourke, Corn Cobs Twist Your Hair,from American Humor: A Study of the National Character.
• Constance Rourke, The Gamecock in the Wilderness from American Humor: A Study of the National Character.
• Stephen W. Rousseas and James Farganis, American Politics and the End of Ideology
• John Carlos Rowe, Postnationalism, Globalism and the New American Studies
• Richard Ruland, Art and a Better America.
• Jose David Saldivar, Metahistory and Dependencyfrom The Dialectics of Our America
• Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition Part Iand Part II
• George Santayana, Materialism and Idealism in American Life. Scott Saul, American Roots, pts I II III IV V
• John E. Sawyer, The Social Basis of the American System of Manufacturing.
• Alexander Saxton, Blackface Minstrelcy and Jacksonian Ideology
• Wolf Schafer, The Global Age
• Scott Schaffer, Disney and the Imagineering of Histories
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,The New Mood in Politics from The Politics of Hope
• Thomas J. Schlereth, Mirrors of the Past: Historical Photography and American History
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Liberalism in America: A Note for Europeans
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,The New Mood in Politics
• Joan Scott, Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
• Linda Seger, Creating the Myth
• William Henry Seward, Higher Law
• Laurence Shames, The More Factor.
• Alan Shapiro, Captain Kirk Was Never the Original.
• Meyer Shapiro, The Introduction of Modern Art in America: The Armory Show
• Amy Sherr, Disney's Animated Features and Propp's Literary Theory
• David Simpson, Literary Criticism and the Return to History
• Robert Sklar, American Studies and the Realities of America
• Robert Sklar, The Making of Cultural Myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra
• Robert Sklar, The Problem of American Studies Philosophy: A Bibliography of New Directions.
• Rogers M. Smith, Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdahl, and Hartz.
• Vivian Sobchack, "Surge and Splendor:" A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic
• Werner Sollors, A Critique of Pure Pluralism
• Susan Sontag, from Against Interpretation
• Peter Stanfield, An Octaroon in the Kindling: American Vernacular and Blackface Minstrelsy in 1930s Hollywood
• Shelby Steele, Malcolm X.
• Roger B. Stein, Packaging the Great Plains: The Role of the Visual Arts
• Cushing Strout, deTocqueville and the Idea of an American Literature.
• Henry Nash Smith, Can American Studies Develop a Method?
• Susan Strasser, New Products, New Habits from Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market.
• Susan Strasser, The New Retailing from Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market.
• Joe Stratton and Lan Eng, On the Impossibility of a Global Cultural Studies: 'British' Cultural Studies in an 'International' FramePart Iand Part II
• Josiah Strong, Anglo Saxon Predominance
• William Graham Sumner, On a New Philosophy: That Poverty is the Best Policy.
• Warren Susman, Culture and Commitment
• Warren Susman, Culture Heroes: Ford, Barton, Ruth
• Warren Susman, History and the American Intellectual: Uses of a Usable Past
• Warren Susman, The Thirties.
• Warren Susman, Soapland
• Richard E. Sykes, American Studies and the Concept of Culture: A Theory and Method.
• Frederick W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management
• Willard Thorpe, Prologue to Socialism and American Life.
• James Thurber, The Soap Opera
• Cecelia Tichi, from Shifting Gears
• Robert Toll, Social Commentary in Late Nineteenth-Century White Minstelsy from Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in 19th C. America.
• Robert Toll, The Vaudeville Show, Pt 1 and Pt. 2, Plays for the People Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, and The Evolution of Musical Comedy Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 from On with the Show: The First Century of Show Business in America
• Robert Toll, The Evolution of Musical Comedy
• Jane Tompkins, href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/tompkins.html"> Masterpiece Theatre: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation.
• Jane Tompkins,West of Everything
• ELizabeth Toon and Janet Golden, Rethinking Charles Atlas.
• Alan Trachtenberg, Mechanization Takes Command from The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age.
• Alan Trachtenberg, Albums of War: On Reading Civil War Photographs
• Lionel Trilling, Reality in America
• Lionel Trilling, A Novel of the Thirties
• Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History.
• Dell Upton, White and Black Landscapes in 18th C. Virginia
• Thorstein Veblen, Industrial Exemption and Conservatism, from The Theory of the Leisure Class.
• Patricia Wald, Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation
• Anthony F. C. Wallace, Paradigmatic Process in Culture Change.
• Michael Walker, "King's Row"
• Wendy W. Walters, Limited Options: Strategic Maneuverings in Himes's Harlem
• Kenneth W. Warren, Appeals for (Mis)recognition: Theorizing the Diaspora
• Kenneth Warren,
Terms of (Mis)recognition
• Mary Helen Washington, What Happens to American Studies If You Put African American Studies at the Center?
• Barbara Welter, The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860
• Andrew Wernick, Vehicles for Myth: The Shifting Image of the Modern Car.
• Laura Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visons in an Age of Imperialism.
• Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas
• Walt Whitman, The Eighteenth Presidency
• Robyn Wiegman, American Antomies: Theorizing Race and Gender
• Robyn Wiegman, What Ails Feminist Criticism? A Second Opinion
• Robyn Wiegman. Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity
• Raymond Williams, Advertising: The Magic System
• Christopher P. Wilson, Containing Multitudes: Realism, Historicism, American Studies.
• An American Studies Calendar
• Richard Guy Wilson, et al, The American Renaissance Chapters 1 and Chapter 3.
• Richard Guy Wilson, Contemporary American Folk Art: Charming Junk or Art with a Capital A? and Bibliography
• Richard Guy Wilson, et al, The Presence of the Past from The Architecture of Virginia
• Woodrow Wilson, Americanism and the Foreign Born
• Gene Wise, An American Studies Calendar
• Gene Wise, From 'American Studies' to 'American Culture Studies.'
• Gene Wise, "Paradigm Dramas" in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement.
• Gene Wise, Political "Reality" in RecentAmerican Scholarship: Progressives versus Symbolists.
• Janet Wolff, Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Culture
• K. Scott Wong, The Transformation of Culture: Three Chinese Views of America
• Robin Wood, Ideology, Genre, Auteur: "Shadow of a Doubt."
• C. Vann Woodward, The Irony of Southern History from The Burden of Southern History.
• Thomas Wright, The National Museum of Science an Industry: An Overview.
• ???, Our America