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American studies
from the University of Chicago Press
The books in this subject catalog are not all the books published by the University of Chicago Press in this field, but only our most recent and important books. We recommend you start with this catalog. For a more extensive listing you may go to the subject index of our complete catalog, or you may search our title database using a subject term. To see just our very latest books (titles released in the last six months) go to our new releases pages.
History and culture
- Adams, Rachel: Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
- Adams, A. Gretchen: The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
- Borgmann, Albert: Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility for Our Country • Read an excerpt.
- Brown, David S.: Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing
- Brown-Saracino, Japonica: A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity
- Chancer, Lynn S.: High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes
- Cook, W. James: The Cultural Turn in U. S. History: Past, Present, and Future
- Davenport, Stewart: Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860
- Dawdy, Lee Shannon: Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans
- Dawdy, Lee Shannon: Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans
- DePastino, Todd: Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America • Read an excerpt from the book and an interview with the author.
- Desmond, Matthew: On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters • Read an excerpt.
- Esperdy, Gabrielle: Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal
- Ferguson, Robert A.: The Trial in American Life • Read an excerpt.
- Frank, Thomas: The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism • Read an excerpt.
- Frank, Thomas: New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right
- Fronc, Jennifer: New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era
- Gaustad, Edwin Scott: Dissent in American Religion: Revised Edition
- Gilbert, James: Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science • Read an excerpt.
- Gilbert, James: Whose Fair?: Experience, Memory, and the History of the Great St. Louis Exposition
- Goldsby, Jacqueline: A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
- Graebner, William: Patty's Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America
- Grazian, David: On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife • Read an excerpt.
- Gussow, Adam: Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition • Read an interview with the author.
- Gussow, Adam: Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
- Halle, David: New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society, and Culture--A Comparative View
- Halton, Eugene: The Great Brain Suck: And Other American Epiphanies
- Haraway, Donna J.: The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness
- Harris, Leslie M.: In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 • Read an excerpt.
- Heap, Chad: Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
- Hendershot, Heather: Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture • Read an excerpt.
- Henkin, David M.: The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America • Read an excerpt.
- Herman, Ellen: Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States
- Howard, John: Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow
- Hubbard, Bill: American Boundaries: The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey
- Hull, R. Bruce: Infinite Nature
- Isenberg, Alison: Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It
- Kercher, Stephen E.: Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America • Read an excerpt.
- Kripal, Jeffrey J.: Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion • Read an excerpt.
- Kruse, Kevin M.: The New Suburban History
- Lears, T. J. Jackson: No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
- Lehmann, Chris: Revolt of the Masscult
- Lenthall, Bruce: Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture • Read an excerpt.
- Levenstein, Harvey: We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930 • Read an excerpt.
- Mechling, Jay: On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth • Read an excerpt.
- Mitchell Jr., Richard G.: Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times • Read an excerpt.
- Nicolaides, Becky M.: My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965
- Page, Max: The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940
- Peterson, Richard A.: Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity • Read 10 Things You Didn't Know
about the Origins of Country Music.
- Reiss, Benjamin: Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
- Robinson, Michael F.: The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture
- Rozario, Kevin: The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America • Read an excerpt.
- Rydell, Robert W.: Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922 • Read an excerpt.
- Sánchez-Eppler, Karen: Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
- Schmid, David: Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture • Read an excerpt.
- Schulten, Susan: The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950
- Schwartz, Barry: Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory
- Seiler, Cotten: Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America
- Serlin, David: Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America
- Slauter, Eric: The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution
- Smith, Carl: Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman, Second Edition
- Spears, Timothy B.: Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919
- Spirn, Whiston Anne: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field • See an illustrated excerpt.
- Swidler, Ann: Talk of Love: How Culture Matters
- Tamarkin, Elisa: Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America
- Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America • Read two chapters: "On the Use That the Americans Make of Association in Civil Life" and "Why the Americans Show Themselves So Restive in the Midst of Their Well-Being".
- Torgovnick, Marianna: The War Complex: World War II in Our Time • Read an excerpt.
- Turner, Fred: From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism • Read the introduction and an excerpt.
- Van Meter, R. Jan: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History
- Vogt, Evon Z.: Water Witching U.S.A.
- Weinberger, Eliot: 9/12: New York After • Read an excerpt.
- Wolfe, Cary: Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory
- Wolfe, Alan: The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith
- Woloson, Wendy A.: In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression
- Yablon, Nick: Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819-1919
- Young, Michael P.: Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement
- Zakim, Michael: Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860
- Zaloom, Caitlin: Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London • Read an excerpt.
Literature
- Augst, Thomas: The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America
- Banta, Martha: Barbaric Intercourse: Caricature and the Culture of Conduct, 1841-1936
- Blazek, William: American Mythologies: Essays on Contemporary Literature
- Brown, Bill: A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature
- Diggins, John Patrick: Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy
- Jehlen, Myra: Readings at the Edge of Literature
- Muyumba, M. Walton: The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism
Art, film, and media
- Antliff, Allan: Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde
- Bottoms, Greg: The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art • Read an excerpt and
an interview with the author.
- Burke, Patrick: Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street
- Buscombe, Edward: 'Injuns!': Native Americans in the Movies
- Castronovo, Russ: Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era
- Cohen, Cline Patricia: The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York • Read an excerpt.
- Dunaway, Finis: Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform • Read an excerpt.
- Elms, Anthony: Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68
- Feeney, Mark: Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief • Read an excerpt.
- Fryd, Vivien Green: Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe
- Gendron, Bernard: Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde • Read an excerpt.
- Gennari, John: Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics • Read an excerpt and a soundtrack for the book.
- Grazian, David: Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs • Read an interview with the author.
- Grindstaff, Laura: The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows • Read an excerpt.
- Halpern, Richard: Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence • Read an excerpt.
- Hariman, Robert: No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy • Read an excerpt.
- Holt, Fabian: Genre in Popular Music
- Ibson, John: Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography
- Kenney, William Howland: Jazz on the River • Read an excerpt.
- LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski: Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television
- Latham, Robert: Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption
- Lewis, Paul: Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict
- May, Lary: The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way
- Miller, Laura J.: Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption • Read an excerpt.
- Spigel, Lynn: TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television
- Verhoeff, Nanna: The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning
Race, sex, and gender identities
- Armstrong, Elizabeth A.: Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994
- Breines, Wini: Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties
- D'Emilio, John: Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
- D'Emilio, John: Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
- Dawson, Michael C.: Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies
- Entman, Robert M.: The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America • Read Entman-Rojecki Index of Race and the Media.
- Gilbert, James: Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s
- Gillman, Susan: Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult
- Glaude, Eddie S.: In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America • Read an excerpt.
- Green, Adam: Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955
- Hartmann, Douglas: Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath
- Herring, Scott: Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
- Howard, John: Men Like That: A Southern Queer History
- Jackson, John L.: Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America • Read an excerpt.
- Jackson Jr., John L.: Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity
- Pyron, Darden Asbury: Liberace: An American Boy • Read an excerpt.
- Robinson, Paul: Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics
- Rupp, Leila J.: A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America
- Rupp, Leila J.: Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret • Read an excerpt.
- Van Deburg, William L.: Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
- Walters, Suzanna Danuta: All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America
- Winter, Thomas: Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877-1920
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