Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Editor: Holland, Sharon P.
Publication Year: 2021
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Price: Core Collection Only

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