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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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• Pacor, Andrea. "Natural Life, Manufactured Feelings: Natural Life, Bio-Political Power and the Japanese American Internment."

• Padget, Martin. "Cultural Geographies: Travel Writing in the Southwest, 1869-1897."

• Pagni, Charlotte. "Hollywood Does Kinsey: Cinema, Sexology, and Cultural Regulation, 1948-1968."

• Paino, Troy D. "The End of Nostalgia: A Cultural History of Indiana High School Basketball During the Progressive Era."

• Pannapacker, William A. "Revised Lives: Studies in the Changing Constructions of Authorial Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture."

• Parrish, Nancy Clyde. "Fair and Tender Ladies at Tinker Creek: Women Writers Coming of Age."

• Parrott, Sara Foose. "Expatriates and Professionals: The Careers in Italy of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Artists."

• Pasley, Jeffrey L. "`Artful and Designing Men': Political Professionalism in the Early American Republic, 1775-1820."

• Passet, Joanne E. "Quest for a Profession: The Origins of Library Education in Indiana."

• Patterson, Caitlin Anne. "Redecorating the Nation: Creating Democratic Arts from the Settlement House to the New Deal."

• Patton, Sandra L. "Birth Marks: An Interdisciplinary Ethnographic Study of Transracial Adoption."

• Paxson, Peyton. "Charles William Post: The Mass Marketing of Health and Welfare."

• Peake, Nancy. "Trading Post Tales: Biography of an Indian Trader on the Navajo Reservation, 1930-1980."

• Peeples, Scott. "Tales from the `Magazine Prison House': Democracy and Authorship in American Periodical Fiction, 1825-1850."

• Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy. "Breaking Laws of Origin: Resistance, Hurt, and Containment in Post-1994 Vietnamese American Literature."

• Pence, Ray. "First and Foremost a Scientist?: Lee Meyerson and Changing Definitions of Disability, 1948-1988."

• Pendergast, Tom. "Consuming Men: Masculinity, Race, and American Magazines, 1900-1950."

• Pennino, Dorothy. "Engendering the Text: Self-Reliant Women in American Self-Help Literature."

• Perkinson, Robert. "The Birth of the Texas Prison Empire, 1865-1915."

• Perlstein, Daniel. "The 1968 New York City School Crisis: Teacher Politics, Racial Politics, and the Decline of Liberalism."

• Perry, D. LaRouth S. "The 1957 Desegregation Crisis of Little Rock, Arkansas: A Meeting of Histories."

• Peterson, Kevin T. "From Self to Subject: American Pragmatists' Response to the Cartesian Implications of Postmodernist Subjectivity (A Cultural-Historical Retrieval)."

• Peterson, William D. "Storm Warriors: The United States Life Saving Service in American Culture, 1870-1915."

• Phillips, Anne Radford. "Farm Women of Stokes county, North Carolina and the Production of Flue-Cured Tobacco, 1925 to 1955: Continuity and Change."

• Phillips, Catherine Hale. "Helen (Hunt) Jackson and Her Literary Career."

• Phillips, David Clayton. "Art for Industry's Sake: Halftone Technology, Mass Photography, and the Social Transformation of American Print Culture, 1880-1920."

• Phillips, Mary Lou Luttrell. "The Language of Naval Performance Evaluation: Officer Promotion as Reader Response and the Ideal Officer Concept."

• Phillips, Rod. "'Forest Beatniks' and 'Urban Thoreaus': Beat Literature and Nature."

• Pickens, Ernestine Williams. "Charles W. Chesnutt and the Progressive Movement."

• Pierce, Lori. "Constructing American Buddhisms: Discourses of Race and Religion in Territorial Hawaii."

• Piket, Vincent. "Louis Auchincloss: The Growth of a Novelist."

• Pilato, Denise E. "The Retrieval of a Legacy: Perspectives on Presence and Progress of Nineteenth Century Women Inventors in American Culture."

• Pimple, Kenneth D. "Speech and Moral Character: A Study of Selected Preachers in Nineteenth-Century American Literature."

• Place, Linna Funk. "Priestly People: Aging and Continuity in an Ethnic Community."

• Polchin, James R. "Why Do They Strike Us?: Representing Violence and Sexuality, 1930-1950."

• Porter, Eric. "'Out of the Blue': Black Creative Musicians and the Challenge of Jazz, 1940-1995."

• Potamianos, George. "Hollywood in the Hinterlands: Mass Culture in Two California Communities, 1896-1936."

• Prescott, Renate W. "Vietnam War Literature: The Movement from War to Home."

• Press, Marcia. "That Black Man-White Woman Thing: Images of an American Taboo."

• Progler, J.A. "Encountering Islam: Essays on Cultural History and Representation."

• Prown, Katherine Hemple. "Revisions and Evasions: Flannery O'Connor, Southern Literary Culture, and the Problem of Female Authorship."

• Pruitt, Mary C. "'Women Unite!': The Modern Women's Movement in Minnesota."

• Pryzdia, Michael R. "The Wake of Imagination and the Postmodern Meaning of 'Meaning.'."

• Przybyzewski, Linda C.A. "The Republic According to John Marshall Harland: Race, Republicanism, and Citizenship."

• Puette, William J. "Media Portrayals of Organized Labor: The Limits of American Liberalism."

• Purinton, William. "Joseph Hillery King's View and Use of Scripture in the Holiness/Pentecostal Context."

• Pustz, Matthew. "Fanboys and True Believers: Comic Book Reading Communities and the Creation of Culture."

• Pynes, Patrick Gordon. "Erosion, Extraction, Reciprocation: An Ethno/Environmental History of the Navajo Nation's Ponderosa Pine Forests."

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