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A quarterly interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Mid-America American Studies Association, the University of Kansas, and the Hall Center for the Humanities. American Studies first appeared in 1959, and has 1,000 current subscribers. In 2005 it merged with American Studies International. The journal emphasizes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship in U.S. cultures and histories broadly defined, including comparative, international, and/or transnational perspectives.
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Volume 54, Number 4, 2016Table of Contents

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View Zionism’s Frontier Legacies: Colonial Masculinity and the American Council for Judaism in San Francisco
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View “As White as Most White Women”: Racial Passing in Advertisements for Runaway Slaves and the Origins of a Multivalent Term
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View What the Shadows Know: The Crime-Fighting Hero the Shadow and His Haunting of Late-1950s Literature
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View Contemporary Latina/o Media: Production, Circulation, Politics ed. by Arlene Dávila and Yeidy M. Rivero (review)
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View Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn (review)
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View For Fear of an Elective King: George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789 by Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon (review)
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View “I Hear America Singing”: Folk Music and National Identity by Rachel Clare Donaldson (review)
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View Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature by Reginald A. Wilburn (review)
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View Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700–1845 by Jodi Schorb (review)
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View The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West R. John Williams (review)
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View The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region by Marcie Cohen Ferris (review)
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View The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Joseph Masco (review)
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View The World of the John Birch Society: Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War by D.J. Mulloy (review)
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View Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America by Jennifer L. Roberts (review)
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View True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity by Dane A. Morrison (review)
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View Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies ed. by Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson (review)
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View William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism: A Biography and Documentary History by Gastón Espinosa (review)
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View F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature by William J. Maxwell (review)
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View Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South by Timothy J. Williams (review)
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View Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade against Communism by Karen M. Paget (review)
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ISSN | 2153-6856 |
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Print ISSN | 0026-3079 |
Launched on MUSE | 2016-03-23 |
Open Access | No |
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