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 Link to edit Content
Michael Jarvis In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783 University of North Carolina Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Kate Haulman The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America University of North Carolina Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Anne McLucas The Musical Ear: Oral Tradition in the USA Routledge 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Catherine Manegold Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North Princeton University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Seth Cotlar Tom Paine's America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic University of Virginia Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Michael Everton The Grand Chorus of Complaint: Authors and the Business Ethics of American Publishing Oxford University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Kariann Akemi Yokota Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation Oxford University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
David Zonderman Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston University of Massachusetts Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Barbara A. Hochman Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851–1911 University of Massachusetts Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Andrew Lewis A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic University of Pennsylvania Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Maurizio Valsania The Limits of Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment University of Virginia Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Benjamin Irvin Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors Oxford University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Adrian Chastain Weimer Martyrs' Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England Oxford University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Faye Dudden Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America Oxford University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Brian P. Luskey On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America New York University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Carol Singley Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature Oxford University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Robin M. Bernstein Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights New York University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Nicole Waller American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World Universitätsverlag Winter 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Ruma Chopra Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution University of Virginia Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Paul Jones Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment University of Iowa Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Molly Berger Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929 Johns Hopkins University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
David D. Hall A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England Alfred A. Knopf 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Peter Baldwin In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930 University of Chicago Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Faith Barrett To Fight Aloud is Very Brave: American Poetry and the Civil War University of Massachusetts Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Alexandra Socarides Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics Oxford University Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Ellen Gruber Garvey Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance Oxford University Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Jonathan M. Chu Stumbling Toward the Constitution: The Economic Consequences of Freedom in the Atlantic World Palgrave Macmillan 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Nian-Sheng Huang Floating Poverty: The Poor in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts CreateSpace Publishing 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Amy Hughes Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America University of Michigan Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Catherine Parisian Frances Burney's Cecilia: A Publishing History Routledge 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Lara Langer Cohen Early African American Print Culture University of Pennsylvania Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Hilary E. Wyss English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 University of Pennsylvania Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Lara Langer Cohen The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture University of Pennsylvania Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Hester Blum The View from the Mast-Head: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives University of North Carolina Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Joshua D. Rothman Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson University of Georgia Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Linford Fisher The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America Oxford University Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Matthew Wittmann Circus and the City: New York 1793- 2010 Yale University Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Richard Bell We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States Harvard University Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Megan Kate Nelson Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War University of Georgia Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Daniel Kilbride Being American in Europe, 1750–1860 Johns Hopkins University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Meredith M. Neuman Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England University of Pennsylvania Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Matthew Raffety The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America University of Chicago Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Dawn Coleman Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel Ohio State University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Courtney Weikle-Mills Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640–1868 Johns Hopkins University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
James Kabala Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846 Pickering & Chatto 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Susan Stinson Spider in a Tree Small Beer Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Mark Thompson The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century Louisiana State University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Amy Brill The Movement of the Stars: A Novel Riverhead Books 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Edward Andrews Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World Harvard University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Kathryn Mudgett Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville, and Justice Story AMS Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Jessica Lepler The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis Cambridge University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Derek Pacheco Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America Ohio State University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Rachel Wheeler To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast Cornell University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Molly McCarthy The Accidental Diarist: A History of the Daily Planner in America University of Chicago Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Barry Levy Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution University of Pennsylvania Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Patricia Roylance Eclipse of Empires: World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture University of Alabama Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 Duke University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Christopher Pastore Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England Harvard University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Aaron Sachs Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition Yale University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Jared Gardner The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture University of Illinois Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Amanda Herbert Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain Yale University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Kimberly Elkins What is Visible Grand Central Publishing 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Matthew Garrett Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution Oxford University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Lisa Tetrault The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 University of North Carolina Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Martha Schoolman Abolitionist Geographies University of Minnesota Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Sean Hill Dangerous Goods Milkweed Editions 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Sari Edelstein Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing University of Virginia Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Katy Chiles Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America Oxford University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Cindy Lobel Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York University of Chicago Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
T.J. Tomlin A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life Oxford University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Kyle G. Volk Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy Oxford University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Shelby Balik Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography Indiana 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
Joanne Dobson The Kashmiri Shawl CreateSpace Publishing 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
Honor Sachs Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier Yale 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
Jonathan Den Hartog Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation 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
April Haynes Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America University of Chicago 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
Michael Cohen The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century University of Pennsylvania Press 2015 AAS Catalog Record
Nicole Eustace 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism University of Pennsylvania Press 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
Richard Wightman Fox Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History W. W. Norton & Company 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
Nancy Shoemaker Native American Whalemen and the World: The Contingency of Race University of North Carolina 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
Sara Fanning Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement New York University 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
Manisha Sinha The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition Yale University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Carsten Junker Patterns of Positioning: On the Poetics of Early Abolition Universitätsverlag Winter 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Sarah Gillespie The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology MIT 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
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
Megan Walsh Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends Broadview Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Joseph Stubenrauch The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain Oxford 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
Christopher Apap The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic University of New Hampshire 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
Sarah Roth Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture Cambridge University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Nicholas Guyatt Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation Basic Books 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
Jonathan Yeager Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture Oxford University Press 2016 AAS Catalog Record
Margaret Rozga Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems Lit Fest Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Christopher D. Castiglia The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times New York University Press 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