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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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• Lacey, Brenda W. "Feet Don't Fail Me Now: A Study of African American Females Performing on a School-based Drill Team."

• Lachin, Teresa B. "'War and Remembrance': The War Memorial as Cultural Artifact."

• Ladd, Michelle R.. "Sometimes a Cigar. . . : Literature and the American Experience of Modernity."

• Ladd-Taylor, Molly M. "Mother-Work: Ideology, Public Policy, and the Mothers' Movement, 1890-1930."

• Laderman, Scott. "Witnessing the Past: History, Tourism, and Memory in Vietnam, 1930-2002."

• LaFauci, Lauren. "Peculiar Nature: Slavery, Environment, and Nationalism in the Antebellum South."

• Lainsbury, Andrew. "Once Upon an American Dream: The Story Of Euro Disneyland."

• Lake, Taylor S. "American Delsartism and the Bodily Discourse of Respectable Womanliness."

• Landsmark, Theodore Carlisle. "'Haunting Echoes': Histories and Exhibition Strategies for Collecting Nineteenth-Century African American Crafts."

• Lara, Irene. "Decolonizing Latina Spiritualities and Sexualities: Healing Practices in las Américas."

• Larson, Rebecca Darlene. "'Public Friends': Quaker Women Travelling Ministers, 1700-1775."

• Lassonde, Stephen A. "Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940."

• Latta, Judi Moore. "Wade in the Water-The Public Radio Series: The effects of the Politics of Production on Sacred Music Representations."

• Law, Andrew D. "Chance and Necessity: Reengaging John A. Kouwenhoven and Tradition-oriented Criticism."

• Lawler, W. Stewart. "The Power of Performance and the Performance of Power: A Master/Mistress Trope for Black Cultural Difference in the African Diaspora."

• Lawson, Tamara Wilds. "Faith Without Funding, Values Without Justice: The Bush Campaign's Successful Targeting of African American Evangelical Pastors and Churches in the 2004 Presidential Election."

• Lazo, Rodrigo. "Filibustering an Empire: Transamerican Writing and U.S. Expansionism."

• Lazzell, Carleen C. "Civic Architecture in Transition: The Rise of Nineteenth Century Victorian Era County Courthouses in New Mexico."

• Lee, Calinda. "Creating the Pleasant View: The Impact of Gender, Race, and Class on African American Suburbanization, 1837-1999."

• Lee, Lloyd L. "21st Century Diné Cultural Identity: defining and Practicing Sa'ah Naagháí Bik'eh Hózhóón."

• Lee, Sang-Dawn. "Big Brother, Little Brother: The Influence on Korean Culture in the Lyndon B. Johnson Years."

• Lee-Whitman, Leanna. "Silks and Simplicity: A Study of Quaker Dress as Depicted in Portraits, 1718-1855."

• Lees, Victoria. "Heresy, hearsay and historiography: tracing the voice of Anne Hutchinson."

• Lehman, Katherine. "Whose Girl?: Representations of Single Women, Sexual Politics and The Workplace in 1960s-70s Television and Film."

• Lensink, Judy Nolte. "'My Only Confident': The Diary of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888."

• Lentz, Kristen Marthe. "Television as Bad Object: Feminism, Race and the Politics of the Sign in 1970s Television and Film."

• Leonard, Angela Michele. "Reading Political Poetry: A Discourse Analysis of the Antislavery Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier and the Corn Law Rhymes of Ebenezer Elliott."

• Lepore, Jill. "The Name of War: Waging, Writing, and Remembering King Philip's War."

• Lester, Julie. "The Agrarian Myth as Narrative in Agricultural Policymaking."

• Levenduski, Christine. "Elizabeth Ashbridge's 'Remarkable Experiences': Creating the Self in a Quaker Personal Narrative."

• Levy, Anne Shullenberger. "America Discovered a Second Time: French Perceptions of American Notions of Time from Tocqueville to Laboulaye."

• Lewis, Chris H. "Progress and Apocalypse: Science and the End of the Modern World."

• Lewis, Randolph. "'America is Hard to See': Emile de Antonio and the Art of Political Filmmaking."

• Liang, Iping J. "The Lure of the Land: Ethnicity and Gender in Imagining America."

• Lich, Glen E. "Return of the American: Speculations on Fred Gipson and Texas Writing."

• Liebermann, Robbie. "'My Song Is My Weapon': People's Songs and the Politics of Culture, 1946-1949."

• Liechtenstein, Ale. "The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South."

• Lieu, Nhi T. "Private Pleasures on Public Display: Vietnamese Identities in Multi-Mediated Leisure and Niche Entertainment."

• Ligibel, Theodore J. "The Maumee Valley Heritage Corridor as a Model of the Cultural Morphology of the Historic Preservation Movement."

• Linebaugh, Donald W. "'The Road to Ruins and Restoration': Roland W. Robbins and the Professionalization of Historical Archaeology."

• Ling, Jinqi. "The Game of Negotiation: Cultural Politics in Post-WW II Asian American Literary Discourse."

• Linkon, Sherry Lee. "Rose Terry Cooke and The Woman Question: A Study in Fiction and Ideology."

• Liu, Xin. "The Founding and Development of the Palolo Chinese Home - 1917-1988: A Care Study of Chinese Integration in Hawaii."

• Lloyd, Brian. "A Miserable Fit of the Blues: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Failure of American Marxism, 1900-1922."

• Lloyd, John P. "Revising the Republic: Popular Perceptions of Constitutional Change During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era."

• Loeffler, Jane Canter. "Architecture of Diplomacy: The United States Builds Embassies Abroad, 1926-1964."

• Long, Kim Martin. "The American Eve: Gender, Tragedy, and the American Dream in Five Major Novels."

• Long, Yi. "The American Response to the Development of Chinese Nuclear Weapons: A Study in the Evolution of Perception and Policy."

• Lopez, Cesar. "El Descanso: A Comparative History of the Los Angeles Plaza Area and the Shared Racialized Space of the Mexican and Chinese Communities, 1853-1933."

• Lott, Eric. "The Seeming Counterfeit: Blackface Minstrelsy and Working-Class Culture in America."

• Louden-Hanes, Marie. "Winslow Homer and the Demimonde."

• Loui, Suzanne. "Practical Transcendentalism: The Role of Nature in the Political Theories of Thomas Jefferson and Ralph Waldo Emerson."

• Lovaas, Karen Elizabeth. "Waging Hormones."

• Lowe, Hillary. "Literary destinations: Mark Twain's Houses and Literary Tourism."

• Lubin, Alex. "Race-ing Romance: Interracialism and the Limits of Freedom in Post-WWII American, 1945-1954."

• Lucander, David . ""It is a New Kind of Miltancy": March On Washington Movement, 1941-1946."

• Lucas, Ashley. "Performing the (Un)Imagined Nation: The Emergence of Ethnographic Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century."

• Lucas, Patrick Lee. "Realized Ideals: Grecian Style Buildings as Metaphors for Democracy on the Trans-Appalacian Frontier."

• Luck, Therese L. "Woman's Page as Women's Medicated Discourse at the Time of the Enactment of the 19th Amendment."

• Luftschein, Susan. "The Changing Face of an Expanding America: The City Beautiful Movement, the Myth of the Frontier, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904."

• Luis-Brown, David. "Waves of Decolonization: Towards an Inter-Americas Cultural Studies."

• Lujn, Roy. "Dennis Chavez and the Roosevelt Era, 1933-1945."

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