Books Based on Fellowship Research

Since the inception of the AAS fellowship program in 1972, fellows have written over five hundred books based on research conducted at AAS. Below is an illustrated directory of these books.
Author / Fellow Title Publisher Publication Date Description
Zara Anishanslin The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution Harvard University Press 2025
Craig Thompson Friend Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas University of North Carolina Press 2025
Claire E. Gherini Slavery's Medicine: Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean University of Virginia Press 2025
Karin A. Wulf Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America Oxford University Press 2025
Eran Zelnik American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750–1850 Johns Hopkins University Press 2025
Ben Bascom Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early United States Oxford University Press 2024 AAS Catalog Record
John Bidwell The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America’s Founding Document Pennsylvania State University Press 2024 AAS Catalog Record
D. Berton Emerson American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures University of North Carolina Press 2024
Adam Jortner A Promised Land: Jew­ish Patri­ots, the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion, and the Birth of Reli­gious Freedom Oxford University Press 2024
Adam Laats Mr. Lancaster’s System: The Failed Reform That Created America’s Public Schools Johns Hopkins University Press 2024 AAS Catalog Record
Tyesha Maddox A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity University of Pennsylvania Press 2024
Aaron Marrs The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History Johns Hopkins University Press 2024 AAS Catalog Record
Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University Adam K. Nelson Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University University of Chicago Press 2024
Camille Owens Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America New York University Press 2024 AAS Catalog Record
Seth Rockman Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery University of Chicago Press 2024 AAS Catalog Record
Manisha Sinha The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 W. W. Norton & Company 2024
Gloria McCahon Whiting Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England University of Pennsylvania Press 2024
David Anthony Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature Oxford University Press 2023 AAS Catalog Record
Tara Bynum Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America University of Illinois Press 2023
Hannah Carlson Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close Algonquin Books 2023
Margaretta M. Lovell Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America Pennsylvania State University Press 2023
Sharon Murphy Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States U of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press 2023 AAS Catalog Record
Adam K. Nelson Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America University of Chicago Press 2023
Whitney Barlow Robles Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History Yale University Press 2023 AAS Catalog Record
Todd Nathan Thompson A Laughable Empire: The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890 Pennsylvania State University Press 2023
Mark R. Valeri The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty Oxford University Press 2023 AAS Catalog Record
Kathryn Walkiewicz Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State University of North Carolina Press 2023 AAS Catalog Record
Susan Branson Scientific Americans: Invention, Technology, and National Identity Cornell University Press 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Todd Carmody Work Requirements Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare Duke University Press 2022
Urvashi Chakravarty Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England University of Pennsylvania Press 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Daniel Diez Couch American Fragments The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic University of Pennsylvania Press 2022 AAS Catalog Record
David Gellman Liberty's Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York Cornell University Press 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Abby Goode Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability University of North Carolina Press 2022
Betsy Klimasmith Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City Oxford University Press 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Patrick Luck Replanting a Slave Society: The Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley University of Virginia Press 2022
Gregory H. Nobles The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom University of Chicago Press 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Jesse Olsavsky The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835-1861 Louisiana State University Press 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Marianne Petit Mouth & Toes: The World of 19th-Century Silhouette Artists with Disabilities Privately Published 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Leila Philip Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America Twelve 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Rachel E. Walker Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America University of Chicago Press 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Juliana Chow Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History Cambridge University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Krista Elrick A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon George F. Thompson Publishing 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Hannah Farber Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding University of North Carolina Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Gordon Fraser Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America University of Pennsylvania Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Kara French Against Sex: Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America University of North Carolina Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Reed Gochberg Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America Oxford University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Robert A. Gross The Transcendentalists and Their World Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Nikki Hessell Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry State University of New York Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
James O. Horton, Lois E. Horton Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of Black America, Vol. 1 Oxford University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
James O. Horton, Lois E. Horton Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of Black America, Vol. 1 Oxford University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Philippa Koch The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America New York University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Gabriel Loiacono How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories Oxford University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Kate Mulry An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic New York University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Brian Rouleau Empire's Nursery: Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century New York University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Madeline Kearin Ryan A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane Rowman & Littlefield 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Roberto Saba American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation Princeton University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Jordan Watkins Slavery and Sacred Text: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America Cambridge University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Peter Wirzbicki Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery University of Pennsylvania Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Kelly Wisecup Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literature Yale University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Meredith Bak Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture MIT Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Richard Bell Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home Simon & Schuster 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Colleen Glenney Boggs Patriotism By Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863-1865 Oxford University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Mark Boonshoft Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic University of North Carolina Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Agnès Delahaye Settling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrops New England (1620-1650) Brill Publishers 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Brigitte Fielder Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-century America Duke University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Kirsten Fischer American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation University of Pennsylvania Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Alexandra Ganser Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy Palgrave Macmillan 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Diane Glancy Island of the Innocent: A Consideration on the Book of Job Turtle Point Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Aston A. Gonzalez Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century University of North Carolina Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Glenda Goodman Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic Oxford University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Adam Gordon Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic University of Massachusetts Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Nathaniel Green The Man of the People: Political Dissent and the Making of the American Presidency University Press of Kansas 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Timothy Helwig Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature University of Massachusetts Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Age of Phillis Wesleyan University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
T. Cole Jones Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution University of Pennsylvania Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Wendy Katz Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press Fordham University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Shana Klein The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion University of California Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Sara E. Lampert Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850 University of Illinois Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Allison Lange Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement University of Chicago Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Daniel R. Mandell The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1880 Johns Hopkins University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Jen Manion Female Husbands: A Trans History Cambridge University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Stephen A. Marini The Cashaway Psalmody: Transatlantic Religion and Music in Colonial Carolina University of Illinois Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Whitney Martinko Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States University of Pennsylvania Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
David Mills After Mistic 2020
Ben Mutschler The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England University of Chicago Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
TaraShea Nesbit Beheld Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Emily Pawley The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science and Capitalism in the Antebellum North University of Chicago Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Hélène Quanquin Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1830–1890: Cumbersome Allies Routledge 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Wendy Roberts Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism Oxford University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Daniel Rood The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean Oxford University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Jonathan Senchyne The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature University of Massachusetts Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Ben Wright Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism Louisiana State University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
James Arthur The Suicide's Son Signal Editions 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Matthew Bahar Storm of the Sea: Indians and Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail Oxford University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Kabria Baumgartner In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America New York University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Wendy A. Bellion Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment Pennsylvania State University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Juliane Braun Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans University of Virginia Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Lisa Brooks Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War Yale University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Michelle Burnham Transoceanic America: Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific Oxford University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Dale Cockrell Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 W. W. Norton & Company 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Vincent DiGirolamo Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys Oxford University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Carol Faulkner Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America University of Pennsylvania Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Matthew Fox-Amato Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America Oxford University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Brett Grainger Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America Harvard University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Debra Gwartney I am a Stranger Here Myself University of New Mexico Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
David D. Hall The Puritans: A Transatlantic History Princeton University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Sean Kelley The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina University of North Carolina Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
James Lundberg Horace Greeley Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Johns Hopkins University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Julien Mauduit Revolution Across Borders: Jacksonian America and the Canadian Rebellion McGill-Queen's University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Scott McLaren Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada University of Toronto Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record