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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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Dissertations: A

• Aamodt, Terrie Dopp. "Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptical Imagery and the Civil War."

• Abrahamson, David. "The Rise of the Special Interest Magazine in 'the Other 1960s': An Economic and Sociocultural History."

• Achode, Codje. "The Negro Renaissance from America Back to Africa: A Study of the Harlem Renaissance as a Black African Movement."

• Ackermann, Marsha E. "Cold Comfort: The Air Conditioning of America."

• Adelman, Rebecca. "The Shadow Rules of Engagement: Visual Practices, Citizen-Subjectivity, and America's Global War on Terror."

• Adelt, Ulrich . "Black, White and Blue: Racial Politics of Blues Music in the 1960s."

• Adelt, Ulrich. "Black, White and Blue: Racial Politics of Blues Music in the 1960s."

• Alaimo, Stacy. "Cartographies of Undomesticated Ground: Nature and Feminism in American Women's Fiction and Theory."

• Alcocer-Berriozabal, Mary. "The Structure and Development of the American Expatriate Community in Mexico City Since World War II."

• Aleiss, Angela M. "From Adversaries to Allies: The American Indian in Hollywood Films, 1930-1950."

• Alexander, Eleanor. "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore; A Social History of Love, Sex and the African-American Elite, 1870-1910."

• Alexander, Ilene. "Learning in Other Ways: A History of Feminist Pedagogy in the U.S."

• Alexander, Lisa. "Race on First, Class on Second, Gender on Third, and Sexuality up to Bat: Intersectionality and Power in Major League Baseball, 1995 - 2005 ."

• Allen, Gloria Seaman. "Threads of Bondage: Chesapeake Slave Women and Plantation Cloth Production, 1750-1850."

• Alsaeed, Ibrahim H. "The Origin and Meaning of America's Special Relationship With Israel."

• Alvarez, Sally M. "Reclaiming the Public Sphere: A Study of Public Access Cable Television Programming by the U.S. Labor Movement."

• Ambler, Cathy. "The Look of the Fair: Kansas County Fairscapes, 1854-1994."

• Ambrose, Andrew M. "Redrawing the Color Line: The History and Patterns of Black Housing in Atlanta, 1940-1973."

• Anderson, Crystal S. "'Far From Everybody's Everything': Literary Tricksters in African American and Chinese American Novels."

• Anderson, Elizabeth S. "Pirating Feminisms: Film and the Production of Post-War Canadian National Identity."

• Anderson, Robert L. "Voices of Steel: New Left and Worker Resistance to Steel Industry Restructuring, Western Pennsylvania, 1979-1986."

• Andreasen, Bryon C. "'As Good A Right to Pray': Copperhead Christians on the Northern Civil War Home Front."

• Andrews, Doris Elisabett. "Popular Religion and the Revolution in the Middle Atlantic Ports: The Rise of the Methodists."

• Annus, Iren. "The Constitution of Mormon Identity."

• Applegate, Deborah Mari. "The Culture of the Novel and the Consolidation of Middle-Class Consciousness: Henry Ward Beecher and the Uses of Sympathy, 1830-1880."

• Archuleta, Micki. "A Covenant of Struggle: Constitutional Discourse and Ideological Debate in Antebellum America."

• Arjet, Robert. "Gunplay: Men, Guns, and Action Films in the United States."

• Arnold-Lowrie, Christine M. "A Punishment for my Pride: The Hamiltons of Port Tobacco, Maryland, 1860-1900."

• Ash, Patricia B. "Quest for Harmony: Religion in the Origin of the Antebellum Woman's Rights Movement."

• Ashe, Bertram D. "From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Fiction."

• Atwood, Paul L. "The United States and Costa Rica, 1945-1960: The Containment of Liberal Nationalism."

• Augspurger, Michael. "An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune and the Culture of Corporate Liberalism."

• Augst, Thomas. "Making Society Out of Books: Character, Self-Fashioning, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture in Nineteenth-Century America."

• Austin, Joe. "Taking the Train: Youth Culture, Urban Crisis, and the "Graffiti Problem" in New York City, 1970-1990."

• Austin, John Peter Nathaniel. "The Literary Compilation in Antebellum America: 1820-1850."

• Avery, Anthony P. "Folklore and Alternative Masculinities in a Rave Scene."

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