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
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 Duke University Press 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
Kimberly Elkins What is Visible Grand Central Publishing 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Jared Gardner The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture University of Illinois Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Matthew Garrett Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution Oxford University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Ezra Greenspan William Wells Brown An African American Life W. W. Norton & Company 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Amanda Herbert Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain Yale University Press 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Sean Hill Dangerous Goods Milkweed Editions 2014 AAS Catalog Record
Cindy R. Lobel Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York University of Chicago 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
Martha Schoolman Abolitionist Geographies University of Minnesota 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
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
Edward Andrews Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World Harvard University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Amy Brill The Movement of the Stars: A Novel Riverhead Books 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Dawn Coleman Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel Ohio State University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
James Kabala Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846 Pickering & Chatto 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Daniel Kilbride Being American in Europe, 1750–1860 Johns Hopkins University 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
Barry Levy Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution University of Pennsylvania 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
Kathryn Mudgett Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville, and Justice Story AMS 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
Derek Pacheco Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America Ohio State University Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Jeffrey L. Pasley The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy University Press of Kansas 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Matthew Raffety The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America University of Chicago 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
Susan Stinson Spider in a Tree Small Beer Press 2013 AAS Catalog Record
Tess Taylor The Forage House Red Hen 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
Courtney Weikle-Mills Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640–1868 Johns Hopkins 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
Jennifer L. Anderson Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America Harvard University Press 2012 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
Richard Bell We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States Harvard University 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
Jonathan M. Chu Stumbling Toward the Constitution: The Economic Consequences of Freedom in the Atlantic World Palgrave Macmillan 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Lara Langer Cohen Early African American Print Culture 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
Linford Fisher The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America 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
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
Coleman Hutchison Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America University of Georgia Press 2012
Megan Kate Nelson Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War University of Georgia Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Catherine Parisian Frances Burney's Cecilia: A Publishing History Routledge 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
Alexandra Socarides Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics Oxford University Press 2012 AAS Catalog Record
Matthew Wittmann Circus and the City: New York 1793- 2010 Yale University 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
Molly Berger Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929 Johns Hopkins 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
Ruma Chopra Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution University of Virginia 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
Faye Dudden Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America Oxford University 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
David D. Hall A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England Alfred A. Knopf 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Kate Haulman The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America University of North Carolina 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
Jen A. Huntley The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular Park University Press of Kansas 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
Paul Jones Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment University of Iowa 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
Brian P. Luskey On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America New York University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Catherine Manegold Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North Princeton University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Anne McLucas The Musical Ear: Oral Tradition in the USA Routledge 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Carol Singley Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature Oxford University Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Maurizio Valsania The Limits of Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment University of Virginia Press 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Nicole Waller American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World Universitätsverlag Winter 2011 AAS Catalog Record
Adrian Chastain Weimer Martyrs' Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England 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
Camille T. Dungy Suck on the Marrow Red Hen Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Bernd Herzogenrath An American Body|Politic: A Deleuzian Approach University Press of New England 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Graham Hodges David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City University of North Carolina Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Vicki Hsueh Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America Duke University Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Angela Pulley Hudson Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South University of North Carolina Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
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
Richard R. John Network Nation : Inventing American Telecommunications Harvard University Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Sally G. Kohlstedt Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930 University of Chicago Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Christopher Lukasik Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America University of Pennsylvania Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Matthew Joseph Needle Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution University of Pennsylvania Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America Adam K. Nelson Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America University of Wisconsin Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Nancy Newman Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth-Century America University of Rochester Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Aimee Parkison Sister Séance Kerpunkt Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Cynthia Patterson Art for the Middle Classes: America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s University Press of Mississippi 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Stacey Robertson Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest University of North Carolina Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
David J. Silverman Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America Cornell University Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Reiner Smolinski Biblia Americana: America's First Bible Commentary: A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments: Volume 1: Genesis Baker Academic 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Mitchell Snay Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction Louisiana State University Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Mark R. Valeri Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America Princeton University Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Ilyon Woo The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times Atlantic Monthly Press 2010 AAS Catalog Record
Walter W. Woodward Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 2010 AAS Catalog Record
George Athan Billias American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776-1989: A Global Perspective New York University Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Kathleen Brown Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America Yale University Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Vivian Conger The Widow's Might: Widowhood and Gender in Early British America New York University Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Marcus Daniel Scandal and Civility: Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy Oxford University Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Konstantin Dierks In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America University of Pennsylvania Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Carolyn Eastman A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public After the Revolution University of Chicago Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
John McCurdy Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States Cornell University Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Cornelia Nixon Jarretsville Counterpoint Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Elmer O'Brien The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era: American Christianity and Religious Communication, 1620-2000: An Annotated Bibliography Scarecrow Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Peter Reed Rogue Performances: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture Palgrave Macmillan 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Edward Rugemer The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War Louisiana State University Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
R. Sikoryak Masterpiece Comics Drawn and Quarterly 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Wendy A. Woloson In Hock: Pawning in America From Independence Through the Great Depression University of Chicago Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record
Nick Yablon Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819-1919 University of Chicago Press 2009 AAS Catalog Record