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
Sean Moore Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814 Oxford University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Jessie Morgan-Owens Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement W. W. Norton & Company 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Peter S. Onuf Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance University of Notre Dame Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Mark A. Peterson The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865 Princeton University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Lindsay Regele Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776-1848 Johns Hopkins University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Beth Barton Schweiger A Literate South: Reading before Emancipation Yale University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Erik R. Seeman Speaking with the Dead in Early America University of Pennsylvania Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Will T. Slauter Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright Stanford University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Derrick R. Spires The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States University of Pennsylvania Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Rafia M. Zafar Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning University of Georgia Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Sari Altschuler The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States University of Pennsylvania Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Sharada Balachandran Orihuela Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves: Piracy and Personhood in Hemispheric American Literature University of North Carolina Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Richard L. Bushman The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Cultural History Yale University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Gina Caison Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies University of Georgia Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Sarah Anne Carter Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World Oxford University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Tim Cassedy Figures of Speech: Six Histories of Language & Identity in the Age of Revolutions University of Iowa Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Nym Cooke American Harmony: Inspired Choral Miniatures from New England, Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and the Midwest David Godine 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Benjamin Cooper Veteran Americans: Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction University of Massachusetts Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Christine M. DeLucia Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast Yale University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Lindsay DiCuirci Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books University of Pennsylvania Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Christopher Grasso Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War Oxford University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Douglas Guerra Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America University of Pennsylvania Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Mazie Harris Paper Promises: Early American Photography The J. Paul Getty Museum 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Keri Holt Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776–1830 University of Georgia Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Amy Hughes A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor University of Michigan Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Natasha Hurley Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel University of Minnesota Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Carrie Hyde Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship Harvard University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Greta LaFleur The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America Johns Hopkins University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Hugh McIntosh Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century University of Virginia Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Daegan Miller This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent University of Chicago Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Seth Perry Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States Princeton University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Christopher N. Phillips The Hymnal: A Reading History Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
Judith Ridner The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania: A Varied People Temple University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Caitlin Rosenthal Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management Harvard University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Renée Sentilles American Tomboys, 1850-1915 University of Massachusetts Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Tanya Sheehan Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor. Pennsylvania State University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
James Snead Relic Hunters: Archaeology and the Public in Nineteenth-Century America Oxford University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Carrie Bramen American Niceness: A Cultural History Harvard University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Claudia L. Bushman Going to Boston: Harriet Robinson's Journey to New Womanhood University of Chicago Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Martha Carlson-Bradley Begin with Trouble: Poems Inspired by the 1727 New-England Primer Hobblebush Books 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Stephanie Carpenter Missing Persons Press 53 2017
Christopher D. Castiglia The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times New York University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Joanna Cohen Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America University of Pennsylvania Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Kenneth Cohen They Will Have Their Game: Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic Cornell University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Wayne S. Franklin James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years Yale University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Erika Gasser Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England New York University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Philip F. Gura Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War Harvard University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Heike Jablonski John Foxe in America: Discourses of Martyrdom in the Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century United States Ferndinand Schöningh, Brill Deutschland 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Adam Jortner Blood from the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic University of Virginia Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Melanie Kiechle Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America University of Washington Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Drew Lopenzina Through an Indian's Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot University of Massachusetts Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Jane Merritt The Trouble with Tea: The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy Johns Hopkins University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Lincoln Mullen The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America Harvard University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Dawn Peterson Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion Harvard University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Katherine Preston Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America Oxford University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Margaret Rozga Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems Lit Fest Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Britt M. Rusert Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture New York University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Christina Snyder Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson Oxford University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Robert Strong Bright Advent White Pine Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Anthony Szczesiul The Southern Hospitality Myth: Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory University of Georgia Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Jennifer Van Horn The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America University of North Carolina Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Wendy A. Warren New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America W. W. Norton & Company 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Kriota Willberg Silver Wire 2017
Zara Anishanslin Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World Yale University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Christopher Apap The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic University of New Hampshire Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Susanna Blumenthal Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture Harvard University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
John Coward Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press University of Illinois Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Patricia A. Crain Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America University of Pennsylvania Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Sara Crosby Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America University of Iowa Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
James Dun Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America University of Pennsylvania Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Benjamin Fagan The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation University of Georgia Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Molly Farrell Counting Bodies: Population in Colonial American Writing Oxford University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Bridget Ford Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland University of North Carolina Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Sarah Gillespie The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology MIT Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Nicholas Guyatt Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation Basic Books 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Carsten Junker Patterns of Positioning: On the Poetics of Early Abolition Universitätsverlag Winter 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Katja Kanzler The Kitchen and the Factory: Spaces of Women’s Work and the Negotiation of Social Difference in Antebellum American Literature The Universitätsverlag Winter 2016 AAS Catalog Record
John Leary A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination University of Virginia Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Elizabeth Pryor Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War University of North Carolina Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Kyle B. Roberts Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 University of Chicago Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Sarah Roth Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture Cambridge University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
David J. Silverman Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America Harvard University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Manisha Sinha The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition Yale University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Joseph Stubenrauch The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain Oxford University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Megan Walsh Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends Broadview Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Jonathan Yeager Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture Oxford University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Nicolas Barreyre Gold and Freedom: The Political Economy of Reconstruction University of Virginia Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Thomas Brown Civil War Canon: Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina University of North Carolina Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Michael Cohen The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century University of Pennsylvania Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Sarah Crabtree Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution University of Chicago Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Jonathan Den Hartog Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation University of Virginia Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Joanne Dobson The Kashmiri Shawl CreateSpace Publishing 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Nicole Eustace 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism University of Pennsylvania Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Sara Fanning Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement New York University Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Richard Wightman Fox Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History W. W. Norton & Company 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Jean Friedman Abraham Lincoln and the Virtues of War: How Civil War Families Challenged and Transformed Our National Values Praeger 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Robert Gunn Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands New York University Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Sean Harvey Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation Harvard University Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
April Haynes Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America University of Chicago Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Jeffrey Malanson Addressing America: George Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852 Kent State University Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
David Narrett Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803 University of North Carolina Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Lloyd P. Pratt The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature University of Pennsylvania Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Joseph Rezek London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 University of Pennsylvania Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Honor Sachs Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier Yale University Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Nancy Shoemaker Native American Whalemen and the World: The Contingency of Race University of North Carolina Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Shelby Balik Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography Indiana University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Ross Barrett Rendering Violence Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art University of California Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Geoffrey Brock Voices Bright Flags Waywiser Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Katy Chiles Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America Oxford University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
John P. Demos The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic Alfred A. Knopf 2014 AAS Catalog Record