Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Editor: Bronner, Simon
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN:
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count:
3565
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present.
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Table of Contents
- A
- Aaron, Daniel
- Abortion
- Addams, Jane
- Adolescence
- Advertising
- Affirmative Action
- African American Dance
- African American Folklore and Humor
- African American Literature
- African American Music
- African American Religions
- African American Speech and Language
- African American Visual Art
- African Americans and Sports
- African Americans in Film and Theater
- African Americans: An Overview
- African Americans
- Afro-Caribbean Culture
- Afro
- Afrocentrism
- Agrarians
- Agriculture
- AIDS
- Ailey, Alvin
- Airplanes and Aviation
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Alger, Horatio
- Ali, Muhammad
- Alternative Medicine
- Amateur and Home Photography
- America Perceived
- America, The Idea of
- America
- American Character
- American Culture Abroad
- American Dream
- American Eagle
- American Gothic
- American Language
- American Studies Association
- American Studies in Canada
- American Studies in China
- American Studies in France
- American Studies in Germany
- American Studies in India
- American Studies in Israel
- American Studies in Japan
- American Studies in Korea
- American Studies in Scandinavia
- American Studies in Spain
- American Studies in the Netherlands
- American Studies in the United Kingdom
- American Studies: A Discipline
- American Studies: An Overview
- American Studies: Approaches and Concepts
- American Studies
- Americanization
- Amish, The
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Angel Island
- Anglo-Americans
- Animal Rights
- Animation
- Anthony, Susan Brownell
- Anti-Catholicism
- Anti-Intellectualism
- Anti-Semitism
- Arab Americans
- Arcade Games
- Architecture: An Overview
- Arms Control
- Armstrong, Louis
- Art Music in the European Tradition
- Art, Society, and Culture
- Arts and Crafts Movement
- Asian American Art and Literature
- Asian American Politics
- Asian Americans in Film and Theater
- Asian Americans: An Overview
- Asian Americans
- Assassinations
- Assimilation
- Atheism in America
- Atomic Bomb
- Audubon Society
- Autobiographies, Memoirs, and Diaries
- Automobiles and Recreational Vehicles
- Avant-Garde Movements
- Baby Boom
- B
- Baldwin, James
- Banks and Banking
- Barbie
- Barnum, Phineas Taylor
- Baseball
- Baxter, Annette K.
- Beaches
- Beat Writers
- Beauty Contests
- Beauty Parlors
- Bellamy, Edward
- Bellow, Saul
- Benton, Thomas Hart
- Bible
- Biculturalism
- Bilingual Education
- Bilingualism
- Bill of Rights
- Bioethics
- Birth Control
- Black Arts Movement
- Black Colleges and Universities
- Black Intellectual Tradition
- Black Muslims
- Black Nationalism
- Black Panthers
- Black Power
- Blues
- Body, The
- Book Clubs
- Boone, Daniel
- Boorstin, Daniel J.
- Borderlands
- Bracero
- Brand Names
- Bread and Roses
- Bridges
- Broadway Musicals
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Brown, John
- Buddhism
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Bureau of Indian Affairs and Federal Indian Policy
- Business Cycles
- C
- California
- Canals
- Capitalism
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Carnivals and Fairs
- Carson, Rachel
- Catalogs, Mail-Order
- Celebrations and Holidays
- Celebrity
- Cemeteries
- Censorship
- Central American and Caribbean Immigrants
- Central Park
- Chávez, César
- Chaplin, Charles
- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
- Chicanismo and the Chicano Movement
- Chicano Literature
- Chicano Performing and Graphic Arts
- Chicanos: An Overview
- Chicanos
- Childhood
- Children's Literature
- Chinese Americans
- Chisholm, Shirley
- Christmas
- Church and State
- Circuses
- Citizenship
- City, The Idea of the
- City
- Civil Religion
- Civil Rights and the Civil Rights Movement: An Overview
- Civil Rights and the Civil Rights Movement
- Civil Rights Movement, the Aftermath
- Civil Service
- Civil War
- Class and Culture
- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
- Clinton, William Jefferson
- Clothing
- Coca-Cola
- Coins, Currency, Stamps, and Commemorative Medals
- Cold War
- Colonialism
- Coltrane, John
- Columbia
- Comic Strips and Comic Books
- Commercial Architecture
- Communitarianism
- Community
- Computers
- Coney Island
- Congress
- Conservation and Conservation Movements
- Conservatism
- Constitution
- Consumer Technology
- Consumerism
- Contemporary Religious Movements
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Corporations
- Cotton
- Counterculture
- Country Music
- Country-rock
- Cowboys
- Crèvecoeur, Jean de
- Crazy Horse
- Credit Card
- Crime
- Critical Approaches to Literature
- Critiques of Technology
- Crockett, Davy
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cultural Pluralism
- Cultural Resource Management
- Culture and Cultural Studies
- Currier and Ives
- Cyberculture
- D
- Dance
- Dating
- Daughters of the American Revolution
- Daughters of the Confederacy
- Davis, Miles
- Declaration of Independence
- Decorative Arts
- Democracy
- Department Store
- Design, Commercial and Industrial
- Disney, Walt
- Disneyland
- Divorce
- Docudrama
- Documentary Film
- Documentary Photography and Photojournalism
- Domestic Architecture
- Domesticity
- Dorson, Richard Mercer
- Double Consciousness
- Douglass, Frederick
- Draft
- Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Drama in the Twentieth Century
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Duel
- Dylan, Bob
- E
- Eakins, Thomas
- Early America
- Easter
- Eastern Orthodox Christianity
- Ecocriticism
- Edison, Thomas
- Education and Public Policy
- Education, The Idea of Universal
- Education
- Eisenhower, Dwight David
- Electrification
- Ellis Island
- Ellison, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Engineering
- Environment and Environmentalism: An Overview
- Environment and Environmentalism: UPDATE
- Environment and Environmentalism
- Environmental Art
- Environmental Studies
- Erie Canal
- Ethnic Studies
- Ethnography
- European Americans
- Evangelicalism
- Exceptionalism
- Exploration
- F
- Family
- Fans and Groupies
- Farms
- Fashion
- Fast Food
- Faulkner, William
- Federal Arts Projects
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Federal Government
- Federalist Papers
- Feminism and Women of Color
- Feminism: An Overview
- Feminism
- Feminist Art
- Feminist Press, The
- Filipino Americans
- Film and History
- Film and Its Audiences
- Film and Reality
- Film and the Construction of Identity
- Film Technology
- Film: An Overview
- Film
- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key (F. Scott)
- Five-and-Dime Stores
- Flag
- Flappers
- Folk Art
- Folk Culture
- Folk Musical Traditions
- Folk Religion
- Foodways
- Football
- Ford, Henry
- Foreign Policy and Cultural Diplomacy
- Foundations, Philanthropic
- Fourth of July
- Foxfire
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Franklin, John Hope
- Free Enterprise
- Free Love
- Freedom of the Press
- Freemasons
- Friedan, Betty
- Frontier and Folk Heroes
- Frontier Thesis
- Frost, Robert
- Fundamentalism
- G
- Gambling
- Gangs
- Gardens and Horticulture
- Garvey, Marcus
- Gates, Bill
- Gay and Lesbian Literature and Studies
- Gay and Lesbian Movement: An Overview
- Gay and Lesbian Movement
- Gay and Lesbian Rights
- Gender and Culture
- Genteel Tradition
- German Americans
- Geronimo
- Gershwin, George
- Gettysburg Address
- Ghost Dance
- Gibson Girl
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Global Relations
- Globalization
- Goetzmann, William H.
- Gospel Music
- Gospel of Wealth
- Graffiti
- Grateful Dead, The
- Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
- Great Depression
- Great Society
- Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of
- Gun Control
- Guthrie, Woody
- H
- Hacienda
- Halloween
- Harlem Renaissance
- Harlem
- Hasidim
- Hate Speech
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Health Care
- Hearst, William Randolph
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Heritage Studies
- Heroism
- Highways
- Hinduism
- Hip-Hop
- Hirabayashi, Gordon
- Historic Preservation
- Historical Subjects in Painting and Sculpture
- Hockey
- Hollywood
- Holocaust Memorials
- Home Economics
- Home, The
- Homeland Security
- Homelessness
- Hoover Dam
- Hornung, Alfred
- Hospitals and Asylums
- Houdini, Harry
- Howells, William Dean
- Hudson River School
- Huerta, Dolores
- Hull-House
- Humor in Everyday Life
- Humor in Literature
- Humor
- Hunting
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- I
- Ideology
- Immigration and Immigration Law
- Imperialism
- Improvisational Theater
- Independence Hall
- Independent Film
- Indian Activism
- Indian Education
- Indian Lands and Sovereignty
- Indian Wars and Treaties
- Individualism
- Industrial Towns
- Inner Cities and Ghettos
- Integration
- Intellectual History
- Intellectuals
- International American Studies Association (IASA)
- Internet
- Internment Camps
- Iraq, War in
- Irish Americans
- Islam
- Italian Americans
- Iwo Jima Memorial
- J
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jackson, Jesse
- Jackson, Michael
- James, William
- Jamestown
- Japanese Americans
- Jazz Age
- Jazz
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Jewish American Folklore and Humor
- Jewish American Literature
- Jewish American Speech and Language
- Jewish Americans in Film and Theater
- Jewish Americans: An Overview
- Jewish Americans
- Jim Crow
- Johnson, Robert
- Judaism
- K
- Kennedy, John F.
- Keynesianism
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Kinsey Reports
- Klezmer
- Kochiyama, Yuri
- Korean Americans
- Korean War
- Kroes, Rob
- Ku Klux Klan
- Kwanza
- L
- Labor Day
- Labor Movement
- Lacrosse
- Land Use
- Latino Activism
- Latino Graphic Arts
- Latino Literature
- Latino Muralists
- Latino Performing Arts
- Latinos: An Overview
- Latinos
- Law
- Legend
- Lenz, Günter H.
- Letter Writing and Correspondence
- Levittowns
- Liberalism
- Libertarianism
- Liberty Bell
- Libraries
- Library of Congress
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Literary Canon
- Literature and Popular Culture
- Literature and the Construction of Identity
- Literature, Science, and Technology
- Literature: An Overview
- Literature
- Locke, Alain
- Lomax, Alan
- Lomax, John
- Lost Generation
- Louisiana Purchase
- Loving v. Virginia
- Lyceums and Chautauquas
- Lynching
- M
- Mafia
- Magazines
- Magic and Magicians
- Malcolm X
- Malls
- Manifest Destiny
- March on Washington
- Mardi Gras
- Maritime Culture
- Marriage
- Marshall, Thurgood
- Marx, Leo
- Marxism
- Masculinity
- Mason-Dixon Line
- Mass Transit
- Material Culture Studies
- Materialism
- Mather, Cotton
- Matthiessen, F. O.
- McCarthyism
- McGuffey Readers
- McLuhan, Marshall
- Mead, Margaret
- Media and Politics
- Media: An Overview
- Media
- Medicine
- Melting Pot
- Melville, Herman
- Memorial Day
- Mennonites
- Mental and Intelligence Testing
- Mercantilism
- Mestiza Consciousness
- Mexican War, The
- Mid-Atlantic Region
- Middle Age
- Middletown
- Midwest, The
- Military Forces
- Military-Industrial Complex
- Militia
- Millennialism
- Miller, Arthur
- Miller, Perry
- Mills, C. Wright
- Mining
- Minstrelsy
- Miscegenation
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Moby Dick
- Monroe Doctrine
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Mormonism
- Morrison, Toni
- Moses, Robert
- Mother's Day and Father's Day
- Mott, Lucretia Coffin
- Mount Rushmore
- Movie Stars
- Moynihan Report
- Muckraking
- Muir, John
- Multiculturalism
- Mumford, Lewis
- Murals
- Museums
- Music and the Construction of Identity
- Music Videos
- Music, The Business of
- Music: An Overview
- Music
- Myth and Symbol
- N
- National Archives
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Organization for Women
- National Parks and the National Park Movement
- National Rifle Association
- National Road
- Nationalism
- Native American Architecture and Design
- Native American Art
- Native American Creation Myths
- Native American Languages
- Native American Literatures
- Native American Music
- Native American Religions
- Native Americans: An Overview
- Native Americans
- Nativism
- Natural Rights
- Naturalization
- Nature in Literature and the Arts
- Nature, The Idea of
- Nature
- New Deal
- New England
- New Journalism
- New Urbanism
- Newspapers
- Niagara Falls
- Noble Savage
- Nuclear Age
- Nuclear Energy
- Nye, Russel Blaine
- O
- Obama, Barack
- Old Age
- Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Olympic Games
- Organization Man
- Orientalism
- Orvell, Miles
- P
- Pacific Islands
- Pacific Northwest, The
- Pacifism
- Paine, Thomas
- Painting
- Parades
- Paredes, Américo
- Parenthood
- Parker, Charlie
- Parrington, Vernon Louis
- Patriotic Songs
- Patriotism
- Pattee, Fred Lewis
- Paul, Alice
- Peale, Charles Willson
- Pearl Harbor
- Pentecostalism
- Performance Art
- Periodization and American Studies
- Philanthropy
- Philosophies of Education
- Photography and the Construction of Identity
- Photography and the Old West
- Photography: An Overview
- Photography
- Physical Culture
- Pilgrims
- Plantation
- Plastics
- Plays and Playwrights
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Plymouth Rock
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Poetry
- Police
- Polish Americans
- Political Cartoons
- Political Correctness
- Political Culture
- Political Parties
- Poor White
- Pop Art
- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
- Popular Culture
- Popular Literature
- Popular Religion
- Popular Song
- Popular Theatrical Traditions
- Populism
- Pornography
- Postal System
- Postindustrial America
- Postmodernism
- Pragmatism
- Prejudice
- Presidency, The
- Presley, Elvis
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania
- Print Culture
- Prison Literature
- Private Communities
- Private, Religious, and Independent Schools
- Progress
- Progressivism
- Prohibition
- Proletarian Literature
- Prostitution
- Protestant Ethic
- Protestantism
- Public Art
- Public Buildings
- Public Health
- Public Heritage
- Public Intellectual
- Public Lands
- Public Memory
- Public Relations
- Public Schools
- Public Space
- Public Sphere
- Puerto Ricans
- Puritanism
- Q
- Quakers
- Queer Popular Culture
- R
- Race and IQ
- Race Riots
- Racism
- Radical Tradition in Literature
- Radio
- Railroads
- Reader's Digest
- Realism and Naturalism in Literature
- Reality Television
- Reconstruction
- Recording Technology
- Recreation and Leisure
- Reform Movements
- Regionalism
- Religion and Popular Culture
- Religion and Religious Movements: An Overview
- Religion and Religious Movements
- Religious Architecture
- Religious Writing and Sermons
- Republicanism
- Revolutionary War
- Rhetorical Criticism
- Riis, Jacob
- Rites of Passage
- Robber Baron
- Robeson, Paul
- Rock Music
- Rockefeller, John D.
- Rockwell, Norman
- Rodeos and Wild West Shows
- Roe v. Wade
- Roman Catholicism
- Romance Novels
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Rourke, Constance
- S
- Sacagawea
- Salem Witchcraft Trials
- Sandburg, Carl
- Saxton, Alexander P.
- Scalping
- Scandinavian Americans
- Schooling
- Science and Public Health
- Science and Religion
- Science and Technology
- Science Fiction
- Science: An Overview
- Science
- Scouting
- Sculpture
- Segregation
- Self-Made Man
- Sentimental Tradition in Literature
- September 11, 2001: An Overview
- September 11, 2001: Media Representations
- Serial Killers
- Service Academies
- Sexual Harassment
- Shakers
- Sharecroppers
- Silent Films
- Sinatra, Frank
- Sixties, The
- Skateboarding
- Slave Narratives
- Slavery, Apologists for
- Slavery
- Slotkin, Richard
- Small Town
- Smith, Henry Nash
- Smithsonian Institution
- Social Class
- Social Media
- Social Mobility
- Social Purity
- Social Register
- Socialism
- Soul Food
- South Asian Americans
- South, The
- Southern Writers
- Space Program
- Spirituals
- Spock, Benjamin
- Sports: An Overview
- Sports
- Standing Army
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Star-Spangled Banner, The
- States' Rights
- Statue of Liberty
- Steel
- Steinbeck, John
- Steinem, Gloria
- Stereotypes and Stereotyping
- Stieglitz, Alfred
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Strike
- Structuralism and American Studies
- Studio System
- Suburbs
- Suffragist Period
- Sullivan, Louis
- Sunbelt
- Superheroes
- Supreme Court
- T
- Takagi, Yasaka
- Talented Tenth
- Tammany Hall
- Tar and Feathers
- Tattoo Parlors
- Taylor, Frederick Winslow
- Taylorism
- Technology and the Visual Arts
- Technology in American Business
- Technology: An Overview
- Technology
- Telephone
- Television in the Post-Network Era
- Television
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Terrorism
- Thanksgiving
- The Masses, The Liberator, and The New Masses
- The Occupy (Wall Street) Movement
- Theater and Its Audiences
- Theater: An Overview
- Theater
- Think Tanks
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Tobacco
- Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Tourism
- Transcendentalism
- Transgender Studies
- Transnationalism and American Studies: The View from Abroad
- Transnationalism and American Studies
- Transnationalism in American Studies
- Tribal Gaming
- Trusts
- Truth, Sojourner
- Tupperware
- Turner, Frederick Jackson
- Turpie, Mary C.
- Twain, Mark
- U
- U.S. Government and Native Americans
- UFO Phenomenon, The
- United States-African Relations
- United States-Asian Relations
- United States-Canadian Relations
- United States-Eastern European Relations
- United States-Latin American Relations
- United States-Middle East Relations
- United States-Western European Relations
- Urban Architecture
- Urban Folklore
- Urban Parks
- Urban Planning and Design
- Utopias and Utopianism
- V
- Vampire and Vampirism
- Vegetarianism
- Venturi, Robert
- Vernacular Architecture
- Veterans
- Victorian Period and the Gilded Age
- Video and Computer Games
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Vietnam War
- Vietnamese Americans
- Violence
- Voting and Elections
- W
- WAC and WAVES
- Walker, Alice
- Wall Street
- War and the Representation of War
- War of 1812
- Ward, John William
- Warhol, Andy
- Washington Monument
- Washington, Booker T.
- Washington, D.C.
- Washington, George
- WASP
- Watergate
- Welles, Orson
- West, The
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
- White-Collar Crime
- Whiteness
- Whitman, Walt
- William Penn's Treaty with the Indians
- Williamsburg
- Wilson, Woodrow
- Women in the American Labor Movement
- Women's Literature
- Women's Movement: An Overview
- Women's Movement
- Women's Studies
- Women's Suffrage
- Wong, Anna May
- Wood, Grant
- Woodson, Carter G.
- Woodstock
- Work and Workers
- World Trade Center
- World War I
- World War II
- World's Fairs and Expositions
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
- Wright, Richard
- Writers and Politics
- Wyeth, Andrew
- Y
- Youth Culture