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.
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Anthony Szczesiul The Southern Hospitality Myth: Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory University of Georgia 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
Katherine Preston Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America Oxford 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
Robert Strong Bright Advent White Pine 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
Melanie Kiechle Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America University of Washington 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
Kenneth Cohen They Will Have Their Game: Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic Cornell 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
Drew Lopenzina Through an Indian's Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot University of Massachusetts 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
Wayne S. Franklin James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years Yale 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
Britt M. Rusert Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture New York University Press 2017 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
Christina Snyder Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson Oxford University Press 2017 AAS Catalog Record
Caitlin Rosenthal Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management Harvard University 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
Benjamin Cooper Veteran Americans: Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction University of Massachusetts Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Greta LaFleur The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America Johns Hopkins University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Mazie Harris Paper Promises: Early American Photography The J. Paul Getty Museum 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
Lindsay DiCuirci Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books University of Pennsylvania Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Renée Sentilles American Tomboys, 1850-1915 University of Massachusetts Press 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
Judith Ridner The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania: A Varied People Temple University 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
Carrie Hyde Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship Harvard University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Daegan Miller This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent University of Chicago 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
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
Tanya Sheehan Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor. Pennsylvania State University 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
James Snead Relic Hunters: Archaeology and the Public in Nineteenth-Century America Oxford University Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Gina Caison Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies University of Georgia Press 2018 AAS Catalog Record
Julien Mauduit Revolution Across Borders: Jacksonian America and the Canadian Rebellion McGill-Queen's 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
Will T. Slauter Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright Stanford 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
Erik Seeman Speaking with the Dead in Early America 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
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
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
Beth Barton Schweiger A Literate South: Reading before Emancipation Yale 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
Brett Grainger Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America Harvard 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
Carol Faulkner Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America University of Pennsylvania Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Michelle Burnham Transoceanic America: Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific Oxford University 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
Debra Gwartney I am a Stranger Here Myself University of New Mexico 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
Kabria Baumgartner In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America New York University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
David D. Hall The Puritans: A Transatlantic History Princeton University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Vincent DiGirolamo Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys Oxford University Press 2019 AAS Catalog Record
Alexandra Ganser Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy Palgrave Macmillan 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Timothy Helwig Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature University of Massachusetts 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
Ben Wright Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism Louisiana State University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Diane Glancy Island of the Innocent: A Consideration on the Book of Job Turtle Point 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
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
Aston A. Gonzalez Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century University of North Carolina Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Hélène Quanquin Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1830–1890: Cumbersome Allies Routledge 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Brigitte Fielder Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-century America Duke University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Glenda Goodman Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic Oxford 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
Ben Mutschler The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England University of Chicago 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
Kirsten Fischer American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation University of Pennsylvania 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
Emily Pawley The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science and Capitalism in the Antebellum North University of Chicago 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
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Age of Phillis Wesleyan University Press 2020 AAS Catalog Record
Kara French Against Sex: Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America University of North Carolina Press 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
Philippa Koch The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America New York University Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Gordon Fraser Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America University of Pennsylvania Press 2021 AAS Catalog Record
Nikki Hessell Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry State University of New York Press 2021 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
Reed Gochberg Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America Oxford 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
Jordan Watkins Slavery and Sacred Text: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America Cambridge 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
Gabriel Loiacono How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories 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
Hannah Farber Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding University of North Carolina 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
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
Urvashi Chakravarty Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England University of Pennsylvania Press 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Susan Branson Scientific Americans: Invention, Technology, and National Identity Cornell University Press 2022 AAS Catalog Record
Gregory H. Nobles The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom University of Chicago 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
Betsy Klimasmith Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City Oxford 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
Rachel E. Walker Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America University of Chicago Press 2022 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
Hannah Carlson Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close Algonquin Books 2023
Adam K. Nelson Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America University of Chicago Press 2023
Manisha Sinha The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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