Selected Alumni Publications
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Ahearn, Marie L. The Rhetoric of War: Training Day, the Militia, and the Military Sermon. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Alexander, Eleanor. Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Attebery, Brian. Decoding Gender in Science Fiction New York: Routledge, 2002.
---.The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
---.Strategies of Fantasy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Bair, Barbara, and Susan E. Cayleff. Wings of Gauze: Women of Color and the Experience of Health and Illness. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993.
Balakian, Peter. The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
---.Theodore Roethke's Far Fields: The Evolution of His Poetry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Bartlett, Irving H. The American Mind in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New York: Crowell, 1967.
---.Daniel Webster. New York: Norton, 1978.
---.Wendell and Ann Phillips: The Community of Reform, 1840-1880. New York: Norton, 1981.
Bederman, Gail. Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Boyd, Nan Alamilla. Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003..
Brewer, Priscilla J. From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America. Syracus.: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002..
Carlebach, Michael L. American Photojournalism Comes of Age. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Cavicchi, Daniel. Tramps Like Us: Music & Meaning Among Springsteen Fans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Cayleff, Susan E. Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
---.Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
Cohen, Peter F. Love and Anger: Essays on Aids, Activism, and Politics. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1998.
Comer, Krista. Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women's Writing. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999..
Conforti, Joseph. Saints and Strangers: New England in Bristish North America. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006..
---.Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001..
---.Jonathan Edwards, Religious Traditions, and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995..
---.Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry, and Reform in New England between the Great Awakenings. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eeerdmans, 1981..
---.A History of East Providence, Rhode Island. White Plains, New York: Monarch, 1976..
Cooper, Mark Garrett. Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Couser, Thomas G. Vulnerable Objects: Ethics and Life Writing. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
---.Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
---.Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
---.American Autobiography: The Prophetic Mode. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Pess, 1979.
Cullen, Jim. The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
---.The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1996.
---.Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
---.The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
---.Restless in the Promised Land: Catholics and the American Dream. Franklin, Wis.: Sheed & Ward, 2001.
Donaldson, Susan Van D'Elden. Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865-1914. New York: Prentice Hall International, 1998.
Donalson, Melvin Burke. Black Directors in Hollywood. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.
---.Masculinity in the Interracial Buddy Film. Jefferson: McFarland, 2005.
Douglas, Susan J. Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987..
---.Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'N' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern. New York: Times Books, 1999..
---.Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Times Books, 1994.
DuCille, Ann. The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
---.Skin Trade. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Eberwein, Jane Donahue. Dickinson, Strategies of Limitation. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985.
---.Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and Bryant. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
---.An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Eppard, Philip B. Critical Essays on John O'hara. New York: G.K. Hall, 1994.
Fees, Paul, Sarah E. Boehme, and Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. New York: The Buffalo Bill Historical Center in association with H.N. Abrams, 1988.
Fox, Stephen R. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America. New York: W. Morrow, 1989.
---.The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter. New York: Atheneum, 1970.
---.John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement. Boston: Little Brown, 1981.
---.The Mirror Makers : A History of American Advertising and Its Creators. New York: Morrow, 1984.
Francis, Elizabeth. The Secret Treachery of Words: Feminism and Modernism in America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Gaines, Kevin Kelly. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Gerhard, Jane F. Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Grasso, Linda M. The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2002.
Greenwald, Maurine Weiner, and Margo J. Anderson. Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
Gross, Laurence F. The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Heath, Kingston Wm. The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape. 1st ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
---.Solitary Comrade, Jack London and His Work. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917. 1st ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000.
---.Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
---.Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Jameson, J. Franklin, Morey Rothberg, and Jacqueline Anne Goggin. John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
Joyrich, Lynne. Re-Viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Kilgore, De Witt Douglas. Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space.. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Kocks, Dorothee E. Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Kulik, Gary, Roger N. Parks, and Theodore Z. Penn. The New England Mill Village, 1790-1860. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982.
Lamster, Frederick. Souls Made Great through Love and Adversity: The Film Work of Frank Borzage. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981.
Leary, Thomas E., and Elizabeth C. Sholes. From Fire to Rust: Business, Technology, and Work at the Lackawanna Steel Plant, 1899-1983. Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, 1987.
Leavitt, Sarah Abigail. From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Levine, Stuart George. Edgar Poe: Seer and Craftsman. Deland, Fla.: Everett Edwards, 1972.
Levine, Stuart George, and Nancy Oestreich Lurie. The American Indian Today. Deland, Fla.: Everett Edwards, 1968.
Lovejoy, David S. The Glorious Revolution in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
---.Religious Enthusiasm and the Great Awakening. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
---.Religious Enthusiasm in the New World: Heresy to Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985.
---.Rhode Island Politics and the American Revolution, 1760-1776. Providence: Brown University Press, 1958.
Luedtke, Luther S. Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
---.Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Romance of the Orient. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Malloy, Mary, and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Souvenirs of the Fur Trade : Northwest Coast Indian Art and Artifacts Collected by American Mariners, 1788-1844. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University, 2000.
Martin, Robert K. The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.
---.Hero, Captain, and Stranger: Male Friendship, Social Critique, and Literary Form in the Sea Novels of Herman Melville. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
---.The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.
Martin, Robert K., and Leland S. Person. Roman Holidays : American Writers and Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.
Martin, Robert K., and George Piggford. Queer Forster, Worlds of Desire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
McAlister, Melani. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
McLaren, Joseph. Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943, Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, No. 181. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Melosh, Barbara. American Nurses in Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories. New York: Garland, 1984.
---.Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
---.Gender and American History since 1890. New York: Routledge, 1993.
---."The Physician's Hand": Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
---.Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Michel, Sonya. Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.
Michel, Sonya, and Rianne Mahon. Child Care Policy at the Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Michel, Sonya, and Robyn Muncy. Engendering America: A Documentary History, 1865 to the Present. Boston: McGraw-Hill College, 1999.
Miller, David C. American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Mills, Nicolaus. American and English Fiction in the Nineteenth Century; an Antigenre Critique and Comparison. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
---.The Crowd in American Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
---.Culture in an Age of Money : The Legacy of the 1980s in America. Chicago: I. R. Dee, 1990.
---.Debating Affirmative Action: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Inclusion. New York: Delta, 1994.
---.Legacy of Dissent: 40 Years of Writing from Dissent Magazine. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
---.Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi, 1964--the Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1992.
Mills, Nicolaus, Kira Brunner, and Bill Berkeley. The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Moses, Wilson Jeremiah. Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History, Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
---.Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
---.Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982.
---. Classical Black Nationalism: From the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
---.Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey. New York: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2004.
---.The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925.. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1978.
---.Liberian Dreams: Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
Nelson, Rudolph. . The Making and Unmaking of an Evangelical Mind: The Case of Edward Carnell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
O'Brien, Charles F. Sir William Dawson, a Life in Science and Religion. Philadelphia,: American Philosophical Society, 1971.
Osterud, Nancy Grey. Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Peiss, Kathy Lee. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
---.Hope in a Jar : The Making of America's Beauty Culture. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998.
---.Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality: Documents and Essays, Major Problems in American History Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002.
Peiss, Kathy, Christina Simmons, and Robert A. Padgug. Passion and Power: Sexuality in History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
Powers, Richard Gid. G-Men: Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
---.Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: Collier Macmillan, 1987.
Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1994.
---.Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
Rudnick, Lois Palken. Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.
---.Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Ryden, Kent C. Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England, American Land and Life Series. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001.
---. Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993.
Saillant, John. Afro-Virginian History and Culture. New York: Garland Pub., 1999.
---.Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Scholar, Nancy. Anaïs Nin. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984.
Scriabine, Christine Brendel, and Donald Wayne Rogers. Voting and the Spirit of American Democracy : Essays on the History of Voting and Voting Rights in America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Shapiro, Michael Steven. Child's Garden : The Kindergarten Movement from Froebel to Dewey. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983.
Sherman, Sarah Way. Sarah Orne Jewett, an American Persephone. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1989.
Slotkin, Richard. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890. New York: Atheneum, 1985.
---.Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Atheneum, 1992.
---.Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.
---.The Crater.. New York: Atheneum, 1980.
Smith, Judith E. Family Connections: A History of Italian and Jewish Immigrant Lives in Providence, Rhode Island, 1900-1940. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985.
St. Armand, Barton Levi. Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
---.H. P. Lovecraft: New England Decadent. Toulouse: Université de Toulouse - le Mirail, 1975.
---.The Roots of Horror in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. Elizabethtown, N.Y.: Dragon Press, 1977.
---.Skeleton Leaves and Phantom Flowers : Select Poems. Providence: Hellcoal Press, 1970.
---.Thoreau Comes to Brown. Providence, R.I.,: Brown University, 1968.
---.Books & Covers: The Bibliographic Art of Walter Feldman. Providence, R.I.: Brown University, 1997.
---.Hypogeum : Poems of the Buried Life. Providence: Burning Deck, 1975.
Stanton, William. The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
---.The Leopard's Spots: Scientific Attitudes toward Race in America, 1815-59. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
---.American Scientific Exploration, 1803-1860 : Manuscripts in Four Philadelphia Libraries. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Library, 1991.
Staub, Michael E. . Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
---.Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Stevens, Elizabeth C. Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lillie Chace Wyman: A Century of Abolitionist, Suffragist, and Workers' Rights Activism. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003.
Tashjian, Dickran. A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920-1950. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Tashjian, Dickran Levon. Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910-1925. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1975.
Tashjian, Dickran Levon, and Whitney Museum of American Art. William Carlos Williams and the American Scene, 1920-1940. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with the University of California Press, 1978.
Tashjian, Dickran, and Ann Tashjian. Memorials for Children of Change: The Art of Early New England Stonecarving. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1974.
Taylor, Robert Joseph. Colonial Connecticut: A History. Millwood, N.Y.: KTO Press, 1979.
Thomas, John L. Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd, and the Adversary Tradition. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1983.
---.A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard De Voto, History, and the American Land. New York: Routledge, 2000.
---.John C. Calhoun; a Profile. New York: Hill and Wang, 1968.
---. The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison, a Biography. Boston: Little Brown, 1963.
Topp, Michael Miller. Those Without a Country: The Political Culture of Italian American Syndicalists. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Upton, Dell. Architecture in the United States. Oxford History of Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
---.Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Urgo, Joseph R. Faulkner's Apocrypha: A Fable, Snopes, and the Spirit of Human Rebellion. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989.
---.Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.
---.Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
Warren, Frank A. Liberals and Communism: The "Red Decade" Revisited. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
---.Noble Abstractions : American Liberal Intellectuals and World War II. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999.
Wreszin, Michael. A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
---.The Superfluous Anarchist: Albert Jay Nock. Providence: Brown University Press, 1972.
Wreszin, Michael, and Schirmer Collection (Brown University). Oswald Garrison Villard, Pacifist at War. Bloomington,: Indiana University Press, 1965.
Yoshihara, Mari. Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.
---. Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.