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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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• D'Ambrosio, Paul S. "Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997): The Making of a Working Class Artist."

• D'Amore, Laura. "American Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine Since 1962."

• D'Amore, Laura. "American Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine Since 1962."

• D'Amore, Laura. "American Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine Since 1962."

• Dacey-Groth, Camilla. "Slaves of Fiction: Coming to Terms with the American Holocaust through Representation of Slavery in Post-Civil-Rights Fiction and Film."

• Dailey, Martha LaCroix. "Dr. Michael Steck: A Prototype of Nineteenth Century American Individualism."

• Daly, Janet R. "The Changing Image of the City: Planning for Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973."

• Darling, Patricia A. "Turning East: Converts and Movements in the Twin Cities in the 1970s."

• Darowski, Joseph . "Reading The Uncanny X-Men: Gender, Race, and the Mutant Metaphor in a Popular Narrative."

• Daughdrill, Martha J. "Urban Growth and Family Farmers: Strategic Responses."

• Davidoff, Solomon. "Of Their Own Accord: (Mis)Readings of Geotheistic Allusions to Popular Fiath in C. S. Lewis' ."

• Davies, Shannon. "American Physicists Abroad: Copenhagen, 1920-1940."

• Davis, John. "Picturing Palestine: The Holy Land in Nineteenth-century."

• Davis, Nancy E. "The American China Trade, 1784-1844: Products for the Middle Class."

• Davis, Timothy Mark. "Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the Evolution of the American Parkway."

• Dawson, Deborah Lynn. "Laboring in My Savior's Vineyard: The Mission of Eliza Hart Spalding."

• Dawtry, John J. "Elite Responses to Poverty and the Poor in Cincinnati, 1840-1900."

• de Baca, Michael Alvar. "Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture in the 1960s."

• de la Pena, Carolyn Thomas. "Powering the Modern Body: Theories of Energy Transfer in American Medicine, Science and Popular Culture, 1875-1945."

• De la Vega-Hurtado, Margarita. "A Foreigner's Gaze: The American Films of Louis Malle."

• De Santis, Christopher C. "Reconstruction and the American Literary Imagination."

• De Ste Croix, James B. "The Republic of Talk Radio."

• de Uriarte, Mercedes Lynn. "Crossed Wires: U.S. Newspaper Constructions of Outside 'Others'--The Case of Latinos (with Implications for the 21st Century Newsroom)."

• De Vierville, Jonathan Paul. "American Healing Waters: A Chronology and Historical Survey (1513 to 1946) of America's Major Springs, Spas, and Health Resorts Including a Review of their Medicinal Virtues, Therapeutic Methods, and Health Care Practices."

• Debo, Annette. "America in H.D.'s Palimpsest: Place, Race, and Gender in her Early Poetry and Prose."

• DeBoer-Langworthy, Carol. "The Modern World of Neith Boyce: A Critical Documentary Edition of Her Autobiographical Writings."

• Decena, Carlos. "Queering the Heights: Dominican Transnational Identities and Male Homosexuality in New York City."

• DeLombard, Jeannine. "'Eye-witness to the Cruelty': Literary Abolitionism and the Antebellum Culture of Testimony."

• Deloria, Philip J. "Playing Indian: Otherness and Authenticity in the Assumption of American Indian Identity."

• Denard, Carolyn Coleman. "Return to the Briar Patch: Ethnic Cultural Consciousness in the Fiction of Toni Morrison."

• Denenberg, Thomas. "Consumed by the Past: Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America."

• Denkler, Elizabeth. "Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage: Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Rural Town.."

• Deutsch, James I. "Coming Home from "The Good War": World War II Veterans as Depicted in American Film and Fiction,."

• DeVaul, Diane Louise. "Mother Work-Quilts and Art: A Material Culture Study."

• Devlin, Athena. "Between Profits and Primitivism: Rehabilitating White Middle-Class Manhood in America, 1880-1917."

• Dewar, Andrew Raffo . "Handmade Sounds: The Sonic Arts Union and American Technoculture."

• DeWolfe, Elizabeth A. "'Erroneous Principles, Base Deceptions, and Pious Frauds': Anti-Shaker Writing, Mary Marshall Dyer, and the Public Theater of Apostasy."

• Dey, Deborah. "Pastoral Themes and Their Use in the Meramec Dam Controversy."

• Dick, Lesley. "'I Just Want To Be Wonderful': The Cultural Legacy of Marilyn Monroe."

• Dicker, Rory C. "Home Repair: Reconfigurations of Domesticity in American Fiction of the 1860s."

• Dickinson, Jennifer Alvarez. "Pocho Humor: Contemporary Chicano Humor and the Critique of American Culture."

• Dietzel, Susanne B. "Reconfiguring the Garden: Representation of Landscape in Narratives by Southern Women."

• Dievler, James A. "Sexual Exiles: Edith Wharton, Henry Miller, James Baldwin and the Culture of Sex and Sexuality in New York City."

• DiGirolamo, Vincent. "Crying the News: Children, Street Work, and the American Press, 1830s-1920s."

• Dilworth, Leah. "Imagining the Primitive: Representations of Native Americans in the Southwest, 1880-1930."

• Dinerstein, Joel. "Swinging the Machine: White Technology and Black Culture Between the World Wars."

• Dion-Buffalo, Yvonne. "Four Generations: A Story of a Family of Plains Cree Women."

• Dirks, Jacqueline K. "Righteous Goods: Women's Production, Reform Publicity, and the National Consumers' League, 1891-1919."

• Dobak, William A. "Fort Riley and Its Neighbors: The Federal Government and Economic Development in the Nineteenth-Century American West."

• Dodge, William A. "The Meaning of Place at Blackrock: Change and Identity on the Zuni Indian Reservation."

• Doezema, Marianne. "George Bellows and Urban America, 1905-1913."

• Dohle Jr., James P. "JROTC: A Study of Two St. Louis Schools."

• Dolgon, Corey. "Innovators and Gravediggers: Capital Restructuring and Class Transformation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945-1994."

• Donahue, Matthew A. "The Message Behind the Beat: Social and Political Attitudes Expressed in American Rap and Punk Rock Music of the 1980's and Early 1990's."

• Donaldson, Elizabeth J. "Picturesque Scenes, Sentimental Creatures: The Rhetoric and Politics of American Nature Writing, 1890-1920."

• Donaldson, John K. "The Themes of Reciprocity and Renewal in Traditional Cherokee Culture."

• Donath, Jackie R. "Design as Mass Communication: An Iconological Case Study of the Work of Charles and Ray Eames."

• Dorman, Jessica. "'Deliver Me from This Muck-Rake': The Literary Impulse behind Progressive Era Muckraking."

• Dougan, John. "Two Steps from the Blues: Creating Discourse and Constructing Canons in Blues Criticism."

• Dowling, Robert M. "Slumming: Morality and Space in New York City from 'City Mysteries' to the Harlem Renaissance."

• Doyle, Robert C. "In the Public Domain: Musical Performance as Social Communication in a Folkloric Context."

• Doyle, Susan Badger. "Intercultural Dynamics of the Bozeman Trail Era: Red, White, and Army Blue on the Northern Plains, 1863-1868."

• Drew, Bettina. "Master Andrew Jackson: Indian Removal and the Culture of Slavery."

• Driemeyer, Laura. "Rising From the Ashes: The Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Building Culture in Charlestown, Massachusetts."

• Drown, Eric M. "Usable Futures, Disposable Paper: Popular Science, Science Fiction and Modernization in America, 1908-1937."

• duCille, Ann. "Coupling and convention: Marriage, Sex, and Subjectivity in Novels by and about African American women, 1853-1948."

• Dudziak, Mary L. "Cold War Civil Rights: The Relationship Between Civil Rights and Foreign Relations in the Truman Administration."

• Duffy, Timothy P. "The Gender of Letters: The Man of Letters and Intellectual Authority in Nineteenth-Century Boston."

• Dunne, Robert. "Protestant Backlash: The American Dream Myth and Marginalized Groups, 1820-1860."

• Dunson, Stephanie. "The Minstrel in the Parlor: Nineteenth-Century Sheet Music and the Domestication of Blackface Minstrelsy."

• DuPuis, Reshela P. "Documenting Community: Activist Videography in Hawai'i."

• Duvall, John N. "Faulkner's Marginal Couple and the Community."

• Dvorak, Kenneth R. "Terror in Detroit: The Rise and Fall of Michigan's Black Legion."

• Dwyer, Britta Christina. "Nineteenth-Century Regional Women Artists:The Pittsburgh School of Design for Women, 1865-1904."

• Dykstra, Natalie A. "Working it Out: Domesticity, Space, and Self-Representation in Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1868-1914."

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