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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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• Haarsager, Sandra L. "'The Women Must': Bertha Knight Landes, The Nation's First Female Big City Mayor."

• Haas, John H. "Caesar Rodney: Delaware's Prudent Engineer of Revolution."

• Hackleman, Leah Diane. "The First Year? Gendering 1968."

• Hafertepe, Kenneth. "The Enlightened Sensibility: Scottish Philosophy in American Art and Architecture."

• Hall, James C. "'There Is No Deed But Memory': African-American Anti-Modernism and the American Sixties."

• Hallstoos, Brian. "Windy City, Holy Land: Willa Saunders Jones and Black Sacred Music and Drama."

• Halprin, Jeffrey A. "Getting Back to Work: The Revaluation of Work in American Literature and Social Theory, 1950-1985."

• Halter, Marilyn. "Cape Verdean-American Immigration and Patterns of Settlement, 1860-1940."

• Haltman, Kenneth. "Figures in a Western Landscape: Reading the Art of Titian Ramsay Peale from the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1820."

• Hamlin, Kimberly A.. "Beyond Adam’s Rib: How Darwinian Evolutionary Theory Redefined Gender and Influenced American Femini."

• Hampton, Bonita. "A Comparative Study of Risk Factors Associated with Exposure to HIV Among a Sample of African American Women."

• Hannickel, Erica. "An Imperial Vineland: The Culture of the Grape in 19th Century America."

• Hanson, Susan Atherton. "Home Sweet Home: Industrialization's Impact on Rural Households, 1865-1925."

• Hanson, Todd. "Quantum Entanglements: Collaboration and Communication in a Scientific Community of Practice."

• Hardack, Richard. "'The Seductive God': Pan and Transcendental Individualism in American Literature from Melville to Morrison."

• Hare, John L. "Images of the Family in the Ante-Bellum Virginia Novel."

• Harper, Christine Froechtenigt. "The Water Wizard: John F. Wixford and the Purification of the St. Louis Water Supply in 1904."

• Harper, Donna/Akiba Sullivan. "The Complex Process of Crafting Langston Hughes's 'Simple,' 1942-1949."

• Harris, Duchess. "From Kennedy to Combahee: Black Feminist Activism From 1960 to 1980."

• Harris, Lisa. "Challenging Conception: A Clinical and Cultural History of In Vitro Fertilization in the United States."

• Hart, Patricia Susan. "A Home for Every Child; A Child for Every Home: Child Relinquishment and Adoption at Washington Children's Home Society, 1896-1915."

• Hart, William Bryan. "For the Good of Our Souls: Mohawk Authority, Accomodation, and Resistance to Protestant Evangelism, 1700-1780."

• Hartel Jr., Herber R. "The Art and Life of Raymond Jonson (1891-1982): Concerning the Spiritual in American Abstract Art."

• Hass, Kristin Ann. "Remaking the Nation with Purple Hearts and Fishing Lures: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and American Memory."

• Hathaway, Heather. "Cultural Crossings: Migration, Generation, and Gender in Writings by Claude McKay and Paule Marshall."

• Hauck, Gerald G. "Reluctant Immigrants: Klaus and Erika Mann in American Exile, 1936-1945."

• Hayashi, Robert Terry. "Haunted by Waters: Race and Place in the American West."

• Haynes, Robin A.S. "Landscape as Palimpsest: The fugutive Images of Southeastern Colorado."

• Healey, Jane Frances. "Painting Pollock: The Creation of a Cultural hero in Post-World War II America."

• Healy, David James. "The Cultural Diffusion of the Concept of Calling and Its Impact on Protestant Clergy."

• Heard, Sandra . "The "Bad" Black Consumer: A Study of African-American Consumer Culture in Washington, D.C., 1910s-1930s."

• Heckscher, Jurretta Jordan. "'All the Mazes of the Dance': Black Dancing, Culture, and Identity in the Greater Chesapeake World from the Early Eighteenth Century to the Civil War."

• Hedstrom, Matthew . "Seeking a Spiritual Center: Mass-Market Books and Liberal Religion in America, 1921-1948."

• Heflin, Ruth J. "Examples for the World: Four Transitional Sioux Writers and the Sioux Literary Renaissance."

• Hefner, Brooks. ""'You've Got to Be Modernistic': American Vernacular Modernism, 1910-1937"."

• Heikkila, Kimberly L. "G.I. Gender: Vietnam War-Era Women Veterans and U.S. Citizenship."

• Heller, Jennifer. "The Search for Something More: Evangelical Women, Middle-Class Marriage, and the "Problem That Has No Name" in Popular Advice Books of the 1970s ."

• Henthorn, Cynthia Lee. "Commercial Fallout: The Image of Progress, the Culture of War, and the Feminine Consumer, 1939-1959."

• Herbert, Frank John. "American Nervousness."

• Herbison, C.C. "B(l)ack to the World: Explorations of Race, Trauma, Illness, and Healing in Selected Vietnam War Films."

• Herlihy, Mark A. "Leisure, Space and Collective Memory in the 'Athens of America': A History of Boston's Revere Beach."

• Herman, Ellen. "American Studies Program."

• Hernandez, Rebecca Sarah. "Past is Perfect in the Present Tense: Exhibiting Native America in Museums and Culture Centers."

• Hess, Earl J. "Liberty and Self Control: Republican Values in the Civil War North."

• Hewitt, Kim. "Psychedelics and Psychosis: LSD and Changing Ideas of Mental Illness 1943-1966."

• Hibler, Anita. "The Publication of the Wilkes Reports, 1842-1877."

• Higbie, Frank Tobias. "Indispensable Outcasts: Seasonal Laborers and Community in the Upper Midwest, 1880-1930."

• Hilbish, D. Melissa. "Relax, It's Only a Movie: Representations of War in the Vietnam Combat Film."

• Hill, Robert. "As a Man I Exist; As a Woman I Live: Heterosexual Transvestism and the Contours of Gender and Sexuality in Postwar America."

• Hill, Sarah H. "Cherokee Patterns: Interweaving Women Had Baskets in History."

• Hilton, Angela. "Motherhood on Trial: Black Mothers wit Incarcerated Sons Negotiating the Criminal Justice System in African American Literature."

• Hirayama, Hina. "'A True Japanese Taste': Construction of Knowledge about Japan in Boston, 1880-1900."

• Hise, Greg G. "The Roots of the Postwar Urban Region: Mass-Housing and Community Planning in California, 1920 to 1950."

• Ho, Wen-Ching. "Miscegenation in William Faulkner: A Synecdoche for Slavery/Caste System."

• Hobbs, Stuart D. "The End of the American Avant Garde, 1930 to 1965."

• Hoberman, Michael. "Back Up on Brushy: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890-1920."

• Hobson, Emily. "Imagining Alliance: Queer Anti-Imperialism and Race in California, 1966-1990."

• Hockett, Jeremy. "Reckoning Ritual and Counterculture in the Burning Man Community: Communication, Ethnography, and the Self in Reflexive Modernism."

• Hodges, Anita Poluga. "Collective Visions of Women: Representations of Gender and Race in the Writings of Women of Color, 1900-1940."

• Hodin, Stephen B.. "Jefferson's Ghost: Slavery, Machinery, and the Haunting of the Literary Imagination in Antebellum America."

• Hodson, Joel. "T. E. Lawrence: Transatlantic Legends and American Culture."

• Hoffman, Nancy Everill. "The Construction of William Bartram's Narrative Natural History: A Genetic Text of the Draft Manuscripts for Travels."

• Hoffman, Nicole T. "Scribbling, Writing, Author(iz)ing: Four Nineteenth-Century Women Writers."

• Holmes, Steve. "'Blessed Home': Nature, Religion, Science, and Human Relationship in the Early Life of John Muir."

• Holt, Sharon Ann. "A Time to Plant: The Economic Lives of Freedpeople in Granville County, North Carolina, 1865-1900."

• Hood, Adrienne Dora. "Organization and Extent of Textile Manufacture in Eighteenth Century, Rural Pennsylvania: A Case Study of Chester County."

• Horowitz, Steven Paul. "The Poetry of Paul Goodman."

• HoSang, Daniel. "Racial Propositions: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar California ."

• Howard, John. "Men Like That: Male Homosexualities in Mississippi, 1945-1985."

• Howard, Vicki. "American Weddings: Gender, Consumption, and the Business of Brides."

• Howze, William Clell. "The Influence of Western Painting and Genre Painting on the Films of John Ford."

• Hoy, Joan McElroy. "The Publication and Distribution of Books among New England Quakers, 1775-1836."

• Hughes, Ellen Roney. "Machines For Better Bodies: A Cultural History of Exercise Machines in America, 1839-1950."

• Hulsether, Mark D. "Liberals, Radicals, and the Contested Social Thought of Postwar Protestantism: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941 to 1976."

• Hunt, Imelda. "An Oral History of Art Tatum During His Years in Toledo, Ohio, 1909-1932."

• Hunter, Phyllis Whitman. "Ship of Wealth: Massachusetts Merchants, Foreign Goods, and the Transformation of Anglo-America, 1670-1760."

• Hurth, Elizabeth. "In His Name: Comparative Studies in the Quest for the Historical Jesus."

• Hutchins, Loraine. "Rites: A Cultural Analysis of Contemporary U.S. Sacred Sexuality Trends and Traditions."

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