Index of American Studies Theses & Dissertations

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Aarlien, Peggy F. "The Alan Lomax Photographs and the Music of Williamsburg." (M 2010).
Adams, Sarah E. "A dollar book for a dime!: The Vernacular of Cheapness and the Beadle Dime Handbooks." (M 2012).
Adams, Sarah E. "Have Your Cake: Constructing a Confectionery Vernacular in the Great Depression." (P 2021).
Adkins, Katrin L. "Performing Race: Instances of Color Representation in American Culture." (M 2003).
Anderson, Benjamin. "Blue Notes and Brown Skin: Five African-American Men and the Music they Created in Regards to the Civil Rights Movement." (M 2005).
--------. "Seeing (for) Miles: Jazz, Race, and Objects of Performance." (P 2014).
Anderson, Crystal Suzette. "Far From 'Everybody's Everything': Literary Tricksters in African American and Chinese American Culture." (P 2000).
Anglin, Merit E. "Gone to the Dogs: Canine Capital and the Management of Biopolitical Fitness in American Literature and Culture, 1835-Present." (P 2012).
Anthony, Matthew. "Surgical and Rigorous (Yet Always Fun): Science, Sport, and Community in American Birding, 1950-1980." (P 2020).
Ashe, Bertram Duane. “From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Fiction.” (P 1998).
Aube , Christine Lokotsch. “The Enduring Villain: Germans as Nazi Stereotypes in American Cinema.” (M 1998).

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Bailey, Judith Bledsoe. “ ‘Faithful Child of God': Nancy Towle, 1796-1876.” (M 2000).
--------. "Strength for the Journey: Feminist Theology and Baptist Women Pastors." (P 2014).
Baird, Bruce Chandler, Jr. “New Land Acquisition in the Colonial Chesapeake , 1660- 1706.” (M 1990).
Baker, Wendy Joyce. “A Sketch of Sufferings: Power and Patronage in Daniel Fisher's Virginia , 1750-1755.” (M 1992).
Barnard, Timothy Lawrence. “Putting Masculinity into Words: Hemingway's Critique and Manipulation of American Manhood.” (M 1994).
--------. “Far Out past: Hemingway, Manhood, and Modernism.” (P 2005).
Barnett, LaShonda. "'Learning How to Listen': Analyzing Style and Meaning in the Music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, and Cassandra Wilson." (P 2012).
Barry, Andrew. "Domestic Brick Architecture in Williamsburg: A Comparative Study of Eighteenth-Century Brick Homes in Williamsburg, Annapolis, and Charleston." (M 2004).
Barry, Laura Pass. “Optical Instruments Used with Prints in the Eighteenth Century.” (M 2004).
Bates, Christina Jean. “Prescription and Practice: A Comparison of Child-Care Manuals, Fashion Journals and Mail-Order Catalogues on the Subject of Children's Dress, 1875-1900.” (M 1989).
Battaile, Anne Bayne. “Mysterious Messages: Masonic Images in Baltimore Album Quilts.” (M 2000).
Bauer, Susan W. "The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Scandal and the Rise of Public Confession." (P 2007).
Bazylinski, Alison. "Fabric Makes the Woman: Rural Women and the Politics of Textile Knowledge." (P 2020).
Bennet, Kathryn. "The Economics of Loyalty: Robert Bonner, the New York Ledger, and Sentimental Capitalism." (P 2015).
Berg, Susan Stromei. “Agent of Change or Trusted Servant: The Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Press.” (M 1993).
Bickham, Angela A. Father wasn't de onlies' one hidin' in de woods: The many images of maroons throughout the American South. (M 2004).
Bigler, Philip. “John Leacock's ‘The Fall of British Tyranny' in the Whig Propaganda Offensive: The Personalization of Resolution.” (M 1984).
Bishop, Lisa Brenner. “A Social History of the Private Fence in Nineteenth- Century America.” (M 2000).
Blaiklock, Vania. "Two Sides of the Same Token: An Examination of Segregation, Memory, and White Supremacy in Contemporary Church Schools." (M 2022).
Blanchard, Jennifer P. "More or Less Than Kind : Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." (P 2007).
Bly, Antonio T. “Intertextual [ sic ] Cadences, ‘When Wants and Woes Might Be Our Righteous Lot': Excavating Phyllis Wheatley's Transcending Voice of Accent.” (M 1999).
--------. "Breaking with Tradition: Slave Literacy in Early Virginia, 1680-1780." (P 2006).
Boldt, Janine. "The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia." (P 2018).
Boulton, Alexander Ormond. “Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect of an Age.” (M 1993).
Bowles, Juliette Harris. “Natural Hair Styling: A Symbol and Function of African- American Women's Self-Creation.” (M 1990).
Bradford, Robert Dale. “When Southern Labor Stirred: The Literary Reaction to Gastonia.” (M 1986).
Bransford, Stephen Henry. “Unstable Compounds: Progressive and Regressive Impulses in Four Contemporary American Documentaries and the Prospect For Social Change.” (M 1996).
Broadwater, John David. “ Yorktown Shipwreck 44YO88: Stores and Cargo from A British Naval Supply Vessel from the American War for Independence.” (M 1989).
Brown, Bridget Mary. “Domestic Ideology and the Social Construction of Mammy.” (M 1994).
Brown, Darryl K. "Racism and Race Relations in the University." (M 1991).
Brown, Jarrett Hugh. "Black Masculinities as Marronage: Claude McKay's Representations of Black Male Subjectivities in Metropolitan Spaces." (P 2011).
Bruggeman, Seth Charles. “The Shenandoah River Gundalow and the Politics of Material Reuse.” (M 2000).
--------. “Birthing Washington: Objects, Memory and the Creation of a National Monument.” (P 2006).
Bryant, Meghan. "Strange Fruit: Images of African Americans in Advertising Cards and Postcards, 1860-1930." (M 2012).
--------. "Selling Race in America: Ideologies of Labor, Color, and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Advertising Imagery." (P 2016).
Bumb, Matthew J. "Against Bullshit : Christopher Hitchens and the Public Intellectual." (M 2005).
Burr, Sandra. “Science and the Imagination in Anglo-American Children’s Literature, 1760-1855.” (P 2005).
Burton , Pamela Sue. “Beyond Telling the News: The Mission of Public Journalism.” (M 1996).

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Carlson, Sachi. "Sunt Antiquissima Quaequae Optima: The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and the Weaponization of Nostalgia in the Service of White Identity." (M 2020).
Carpenter, Lisa. "Folk into Art: John Fahey, Modernism and the American Folk Revival." (M 2017).
Carroll, Frederick J. "New Deal Housing on the Virginia Peninsula : Challenging Jim Crow paternalism at Swantown and Aberdeen Gardens." (M 2004).
Carroll, Nicole. “African American History at Colonial Williamsburg.” (M 1999).
Cha, Frank. “Southern Orientation: Navigating Asian Pacific American Identity and Place in Contemporary Southern Literature and Film.” (P 2013).
Chaltain, Samuel Spelman. “ ‘The Poet, the Poem , and the People': Etheridge Knight's American Counterpoetics.” (M 1999).
Chasse, Sarah. "A Certain Kinship: The First Exhibitions of American Folk Art, New York, 1924-1932." (M 2011).
Chieffo, Toby Maria. “Joshua Johnson Revisited: Filling the Lacunae.” (M 1995).
--------. "Nathaniel Jocelyn : In the Service of Art and Abolition." (P 2005).
Chowning, Elizabeth Jane. “Harmony and Dissonance: Mennonite Visions of Community and Identity.” (M 1993).
Clark, Regina A. "The Brownies' Book : An Open Window to Early Twentieth-Century African American Childhood." (M 2009).
Cloe, Maxell. “I Fixed Up the Trees to Give Them Some New Life:” Queer Desire, Affect, and Ecology in the Work of Two LGBTQ+ Appalachian Artists/The Wildcrafting Our Queerness Project/The Queer Appalachia Preservation Project. (M 2021).
Cloeren, Nicole B. “ ‘C' is for Cookie, Culture, and Capitalism: The Muppet Phenomenon in the United States .” (M 1999).
Cobb, John Michael. “The Shaping of Kecoughtan, 1607-1624: ‘A Delicate and Necessary Seat for a City or Chief Fortification.'” (M 2002).
Cohen, Amber S. "The Immigrant, the Native Son, and the Ambassador : The Transnational Travels of Godzilla, Speed Racer, and Akira." (M 2010).
Cohen, Matthew. “Framing the Woman Artist: Gender and Art in Howells and Sargent.” (M 1995).
--------. “The Still Life: Domesticity, Subjectivity, and the Bachelor in Nineteenth- Century America.” (P 2002).
Cordulack, Evan. "Consumer Under Fire: Vietnam and the Military Consumer." (M 2006).
--------. "Imagining Saigon: American Interpretatons of Saigon in the Twentieth Century." (P 2013).
Cosco, Joseph P. “Eyeing Italians: Race, Romance, and Reality in American Perception, 1880-1910.” (P 1999).
Cowan, William Tynes. “The Slave in the Swamp: Disrupting the Plantation Narrative.” (P 2001).
Cowing, Jessica. "Settler States of Ability: Assimilation, Incarceration, and Native Women's Crip Interventions." (P 2020).
Crawford, Meredith. “Envisioning Black Childhood: Black Nationalism, Community, and Identity Construction in Black Arts Movement Children’s Literature.” (M 2005).
Cude, Michelle Dawn. “Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind the Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit of the Truth.” (M 1997).
Curran, Barbara Anne. “Tobacco and Cloth: A Century of Virginia Clothing Acquisition, 1607-1707.” (M 1994).

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Dacey, Katherine. “ ‘Gershwin Gone Native!': The Influence of Primitivism and Folk Music on ‘Porgy and Bess.'” (M 2001).
Davey , Frances Evelyn. “Wild, Wearable, and Seaworthy.” (M 1996).
DeBrava, Valerie. “Authorship and Individualism in American Literature.” (P 2000).
Delvin, Erin Krutko. “Colonial Williamsburg 's Slave Auction Re-Enactment: Controversy, African American History and Public Memory.” (M 2004).
--------. "Justice is a Perpetual Struggle: Public Memory and the Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis." (P 2011).
DeMeola, Zachariah. "The Corporate Person: How U.S. Courts Transformed A Legal Phantom into A Powerful Citizen." (M 2015).
Diaz, Ella Maria. “1500 by 1936 by 1998 - - These are the Measurements of Malinche's Body: An Analysis and Review of Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Nationality.” (M 2002).
--------. "Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force." (P 2010).
DiBenigno, Maria. "Ghosts in the Museum: The Haunting of Virginia's Public History." (P 2020).
Dodenhoff, Donna. "Oh Shenandoah! the Northern Shenandoah Valley's Black Borderlanders Make Freedom Work During Virginia's Reconstruction, 1865-1870." (P 2016).
Donald, Colin James. “Who Controlled Cruise?: The 1983 Deployment of Cruise Missiles in the United Kingdom and the Post-1985 Anglo-American Special Relationship in Defense.” (M 1989).
Dougan, John M. “The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, and the Prisonaires.” (M 1997).
--------. “Two Steps from the Blues: Creating Discourse and Constructing Canons in Blues Criticism.” (P 2001).
Doyle, Colleen M. “ ‘Post-humously Hot': Bill Traylor's Life and Art.” (M 1994).
Draper, Christina. "African American Civil Rights Museums- A Study of the R. R. Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia." (M 2015).

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Ecker, Jordan M. “Entertaining Education or Purely Entertainment: A Case Study of the Yorktown Victory Center.” (M 2014).
Edmonds, Kristin Margaret. “Mouth with Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience and Authorship in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman.” (M 1996).
Edward-Ingram, Ywone. “Medicating Slavery: African-American Motherhood, Health Care, and Cultural Practices in the African Diaspora.” (P 2005).
Eu, Iris. "Staging the Asian American in Hong Kong: Examining Transcultural Performances of Asian American Identity in Hong Kong Eng Lang Amateur Theatre Productions of Thoroughly Modern Millie and Yellow Face." (M 2015).

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Fairbairn, Brenda Buddeke. “The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Newport News, Virginia.” (M 1985).
Felker, Christopher D. "Sailing the Zig-Zag Course of a Hundred Tacks: R.W. Emerson's 'Each and All." (M 1988).
Feman, Seth. "Paint by Nation: Thomas Kinkade and the Conversion of American Culture." (M 2005).
--------. "District and Capital: The Art of Modern Washington." (P 2017).
Freeman, Margaret. "To Seek the Good, the True, and the Beautiful: White Greek-Letter Sororities in the U.S. South and the Shaping of American Ladyhood, 1915-1975." (P 2011).
Fucile, Frank. "Terra Sacra: Lethal Environments and the Modern American War Novel." (P 2018).
Fuhrman, Anne Mary. “The Craft of Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century America.” (M 1992).

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Gable, Nicolette. "The Search for a New England Character: Change, The Town, and the Wilderness in Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York." (M 2010).
--------. "Morbid Love: The Culture of Decadence in America." (P 2016).
Gaeta , Anne Elizabeth. “The Quaker Influence on Nantucket Architecture: A Case Study.” (M 1990).
Gaines, Mikal. "Beating Songs: Blues, Violence and the Male Body in the Films of Spike Lee." (M 2005).
--------. "The Black Gothic Imaginary: Horror, Spectatorship, and Black Subjectivity in American Cinema from 1960 to the New Millennium." (P 2015).
Galante, Vera do Val. “Conspicuous Presence: Tom Wolfe's One Man Show.” (M 1993).
Garcia, Lindsay. "Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World." (M 2016).
-------. "Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the non/Human Imaginary." (P 2020).
Gardner, Kevin. “ Absalom, Absalom! and the Southern Code of Honor.” (M 1986).
Garland , David Travers. “American Dream Screams: Success Ideology and the Hollywood Novel Between the Two World Wars.” (M 1990).
Geraghty, Mary. “Domestic Management of Woodlawn Plantation: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis and Her Slaves.” (M 1993).
Ghaemmaghami, Amy Carol. “Milk Enough for All: The African-American Woman's Quest for Identity and Authority in Toni Morrison's Beloved.” (M 1990).
Gibson, Tracey Ann. “Civilizing Savages: Cherokee Advances, White Settlement, and the Rhetoric of Removal.” (M 1995).
Gittinger, Anne M. "Class Act : Negotiating Art and Market in the Career of Isadora Duncan." (M 2010).
Glisson, Susan M. “ ‘Neither Bedecked Nor Bebosomed': Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and Women's Leadership and Organizing in the Struggle for Freedom.” (P 2000).
Glosson, Sarah G. "Domestic Music Making in Late Eighteenth-Century Elite Chesapeake Society : The "Elegant Selections" of Shirley Plantation." (M 2009).
--------. "Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen’s Fans in America." (P 2015).
Gonaver, Wendy. “Race Relations: A Family Story 1765-1867.” (M 2001).
--------. "The Peculiar Institution: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry." (P 2012).
Green, Charles. "Passing into Print: Walt Whitman and his Publishers." (P 2004).
Greenman, John Starr. “The Rise of Benjamin Waller: 1716-1786.” (M 1994).
Grunder, Sarah L. "Spectacle of Citizenship: Print Media and the Construction of Americanness 1880-1940." (P 2010).
Gschwend, Katherine Hinchliffe. “John A. Lomax: Documenting the Myth of the American West.” (M 1995).

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Hailey, Christopher Blair. “Running on Empty: The Myth of the Automobile in Three Works by Chester Himes.” (M 1992).
Hancock, Jennifer. "What Would Jesus Do?”: Modern Revival in the Marketplace, 1896-2000s." (P 2016).
Harris, Travis. "Putin' on for Da Lou: Hip Hop's Response to Racism in St. Louis." (M 2016).
--------. "Lost Tribe of Magruder: The Untold Story of the Navy's Dispossession of a Black Community." (P 2019).
Hawkins, Callie. "An Interpretive Plan for the Newry, South Carolina Cotton Mill Museum." (M 2011).
Hayes, Jeffreen. "Real Talk: Blackness and Whiteness in the Works of Jefferson Pinder, Dave Chappelle, and Aaron McGruder." (P 2012).
Hellier, Cathleene Betz. “Private Land Development in Williamsburg , 1699-1748.” (M 1989).
--------. "The Waiting Man: Enslaved Male Domestics in Virginia, 1619-1800." (P 2020).
Heuvel, Lisa. "English Mineral Exploration in the New World." (M 2005).
Hildreth, Linda A. “The Fate of the Cabinetmaking Trade in Williamsburg , Virginia in the Post-Revolutionary Period.” (M 1988).
Hilpert, Zachary. "Ruins Reframed: The Commodification of American Urban Disaster, 1861-1906." (P 2014).
Hodge, Amber. "The Rise and Fall of the WB: 'Dawson's Creek,' Intertextuality, and Legitimation." (M 2012)
Holder, Meghan. "Strange Fruit: Images of African Americans in Advertising Cards and Postcards, 1860-1930." (M 2011).
Horton, Tonia Lanette. “The Freedom of a Broken Law: The Liminal World of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.” (M 1985).
Howard, Amanda L. “Stormy Weather: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and the Cultural Politics of Stardom.” (M 1999).
--------. “More than Shelter: Community, Identity, and Spatial Politics in San Francisco.” (P 2005)
Howard, Elizabeth. “Every American Should Stand Here Once": Jamestown's 400th Anniversary Commemoration and the Creation of an American Origin Narrative.” (M 2013).
Howell, Mark Hunter. “A War of Words: Satire and Song in the Pre-Revolutionary Virginia Gazettes.” (M 1998).
Hubenthal, Jan. "'Quick! Do Something Manly!' -- The Super Bowl as an American Spectacle of Hegemonic Masculinity, Violence, and Nationalism." (M 2013).
--------. "Injury & Resistance: Centering HIV/AIDS Histories in Times of Queer Equality." (P 2019).
Hughes, Shannon Lynn. “Luxury Consumption in 1815 Fredericksburg , Virginia : Gender, Race, and the Personal Property Tax.” (M 1999).
Hunt, Edward. "The Politics of Empire: The United States and the Global Structure of Imperialism in the Early Twenty-First Century." (P 2016).
Hunter, Phyllis Whitman. “Ship of Wealth: Massachusetts Merchants, Foreign Goods, and the Transformation of Anglo-America, 1670-1760.” (P 1996).
Huso, Deborah Rae. “ ‘I Claim Not to Have Controlled Events': Abraham Lincoln and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in the Secession Crisis.” (M 1997).
Hyland, Matthew Gantert. “Montpelier: The History of a House, 1723-1998.” (P 2004).

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Ito, Kyoko. “ ‘Country,' Past, and Nostalgia: Examination of an American Popular Ideal.” (M 1993).

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Jerome, Alexandra. "Shahrazad in the White City: Muslim Women's Agency and Performance at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition." (M 2011).
Johnson, Deanda Marie. “Seeking the Living Among the Dead: African American Burial Practices in Surry County , Virginia .” (M 2004).
--------. “Thoroughly Modern: African American Women's Dress and the Culture of Consumption in Cleveland, Ohio, 1890-1940.” (P 2014).
Johnson, Maya A. "Harem Fantasies and Music Videos : Contemporary Orientalist Representation." (M 2007).
Johnson, Tova J. "Performance of Black Female Sexuality in a Hip Hop Magazine." (M 2008).
Johnston, Jessica Williams. “A Distinctive Chest of Drawers: Using Material Culture to Interpret the Past and the Present.” (M 1996).
Jones, Brian. "Members, Don't Git Weary: Max Roach, Treme, and the Sound of Resistance." (M 2015).
--------. "Becoming Paul Motian: Identity, Labor, and Musical Invention." (P 2020).
Jones, Joseph Benjamin. “Anglo-Siouan Relations on Virginia 's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732.” (M 1989).

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Kahler, Abby. "Mother of Dragons: White Feminist Imperialism in HBO's Game of Thrones." (M 2021).
Kahler, Gerald Edward. "Washington in Glory , America in Tears: The Nation Mourns the Death of George Washington, 1799-1800.” (P 2003).
Kammer, Donald. "The United States Army Chaplain as Prophet in the Twenty-First Century: Is There a Soul of Goodness in Evil Things." (M 2005).
Kaziewicz, Julia. "Artful Manipulation: The Rockefeller Family and Cold War America." (P 2015).
Keenan, Stephanie Marie. “The Willoughby-Baylor House: Form and Symbol.” (M 1993).
Keller, Laura. "Terrible in its Beauty, Terrible in its Indifference: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Sally Mann's Southern Landscapes." (M 2018).
Kelly, Neeve. "Nationalism by Design: Reimagining Irish Identity in the American Marketplace." (P 2019).
Kennedy-Shaffer, Alan. "Voters in a Foreign Land: Alien Suffrage and Citizenship in the United States, 1704-1926." (M 2009).
Kidd, David. “History Written With Lightning”: Religion, White Supremacy, and the Rise and Fall of Thomas Dixon, Jr.” (P 2013).
Kingan, Renee M. "'Taking it out!': Jayne Cortez's Collaborations with the Firespitters." (M 2009).
-------. ""When I Put on My Firespitter Mask": Jayne Cortez's (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations." (P 2018).
Klimchock, Carolee A. "Plastic Capital : Wilmington, Delaware and the Deregulation of Consumer Credit." (M 2008).
Kobayashie, Fumie. “Christian Parenting: Baptists and the Birds and Bees.” (M 2003).
Korwin-Pawlowski, Wendy J. "Pleasure and Peril : Shaping Children's Reading in the Early Twentieth Century." (M 2006).
--------. "Material Literacy: Alphabets, Bodies, and Consumer Culture." (P 2017).
Kosanovich, Kevin W. "Re-Taking It to the Streets: Investigating Hip-Hop's Emergence in the Spaces of Late Capitalism." (M 2008).
--------. "Building A Bronx Movement: A History of Hip-Hop Culture, 1951-1984." (P 2015).
Kott, Julia. "Beyond the Podium: A Critical Analysis of Three Online Learning Tools." (M 2020).
Kuettner, Angelika R. "'Goods-- agreeable to the Association': The Scottish Merchant Trade and Early Tea Boycotts in Virginia." (M 2008).
Kuragano, Leah. "Race and Culture in the Early-Twentieth Century United States and Colonial Hawai'i." (M 2017).
--------. “Colonial Apprehension: Hawaiian Indigeneity in U.S. American Popular Culture, 1945-1980." (P 2022)

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Lankford, Kimberly Elaine. “Frederick Douglass's Intended Audiences for His Antebellum Autobiographies.” (M 1992).
Larson, Zoey. "A dress of the right length to die in": Mortuary and Memorial Practices Amongst Depression-Era Tenant Farmers of the Piedmont South." (M 2012).
Lautenschlager, Julie Lynn. “Food Fight!: America 's Ideological Battle Over Lunch.” (P 2003).
Lawless, Joseph. "Of Mammies, Minstrels, and Machines: Movement-Image Automaticity and the Impossible Conditions of Black Humanity." (M 2019).
Lee, Sarah J. "Saints and Soldiers of Humanity : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo." (M 2004).
--------. "Utopian Spaces : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo, Illinois." (P 2009).
LeFave, Helen Grace. “ A Place of Honor and Fruitfulness: World War One and the War Activities of Women from the Elite Women's Colleges.” (M 1994).
Lewes, David W. “In Parisian Salons and Boston 's Back Streets: Reading Jefferson 's ‘Notes on the State of Virginia.'" (M 2002).
Li, Kai-yin Allison. “Lost Chances in Sino-American Relations: The Burden of Myth, Culture, and Ideology.” (M 1997).
Ligon, Samantha M. “The Fashionable Set: The Feasibility of Social Tea Drinking in 1774.” (M 1999).
Linebaugh, Donald W. “ ‘The Road to Ruins and Restoration': Roland W. Robbins and the Professionalization of Historical Archaeology.” (P 1996).
Lovell, Barry Scott. “The Costumes of the Past: The First Virginia and the Authenticity of Historical Reenacting.” (M 1992).
Luccketti, Nicholas Michael. “Archaeology at Bennett Farm: The Life Style of a Seventeenth-Century Middling Planter in York County, Virginia.” (M 1990).
Luff, Jennifer D. “A Parlor in the Penitentiary: Prisons and Reading in Victorian America .” (M 1996).
--------. "Judas Exposed : Labor Spies in the United States." (P 2005).
Lunt, Catherine. “Generational Revolt and the Spirit of Capitalism: Fanny Fern's Confrontation with Calvinism, Class, and Gender Ideology in Ruth Hall.” (M 1994).

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Maguire, Stephanie. "I Get a Kick Out of You: Cinematic Revisions of the History of African Americans in the American West." (M 2014).
Malone, Mollie C. “A Dinner at the Governor's Palace, 10 September 1770.” (M 1998).
Mann, Kimberly L. "The First Thing Out The Window: Race, Radical Feminism, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." (M 2009).
--------. "Genuine Made-in-Americans: Living Machines and the Technological Body in the Postwar Science Fiction Imaginary, 1944-1968." (P 2014).
Manzo, Bettina. “John Minson Galt II and the Print Culture at Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg Virginia, 1840-1860.” (P 2004).
Marcus, Hilary J. "Between Fact and Fiction: Writing by American Women in a Transnational Context." (P 2010).
Markarian, Robyn: You Are NOT the Father!: Family, Race and Maury in America. (M 2013).
Masters, Joanna Margaret. “Dressing Behavior in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.” (M 1993).
Matthews, Amy Procter. “Organized Labor: The Past, Present, and Future of Nurse-Midwifery in America.” (M 1990).
Matthews, Barry. "New South(ern) Landscapes: Reenvisioning Tourism, Industry, and the Environment in the American South." (M 2016).
McDonald, Ryan J. "You(s) on the Tube : Deconstructing (American) (Cyber) Selves Inscribed in the Diary Blog and Diary Vlog." (M 2008).
--------. "Reengineering Global Higher Education: American Polytechnics, Transnationalization, and Cultural Configuration." (P 2012).
McKinney , Jane Dillon. “Anguilla and the Art of Resistance.” (P 2002).
McMaster, MaryKate. “A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles and Cultural Leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in Antebellum America.” (P 2001).
McNutt, Jill Angela. “The Other Faces of Mount Rushmore: Tourism, Advertising, and the Commodity of Experience.” (M 1996).
McPherson, Anne Shelton. “Sugar Chests in Middle Tennessee , 1800-1835.” (M 1996).
McPherson, Beth Ann Spiryson. “Fort Hill: A Representative of the Structural and Social Hierarchy and Harmony of Greek Revival Architecture.” (M 1996).
Meyers, Kayla. "I figured you were probably watching us: Ex Machina and the Performativity of Lateral Surveilance." (M 2017).
Mieras, Emily. “Oz in the Valley of the Ashes: Visions of Tomorrow at the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964.” (M 1993).
--------. “ ‘A More Perfect Sympathy': College Students and Social Service.” (P 1998).
Miller, John D. "Buck-Horned Snakes and Possum Women: Non-White Folklore, Antebellum Southern Literature and Interracial Cultural Exchange." (P 2010).
Modeste, Jackie. "Remembering the Briarpatch: Music and the Making of an American Literary Tradition—Albert Murray's Scooter Series.” (P 2004).
Monahan, Linda. "Understanding 'Road Kill' through an Animal Method." (M 2015).
Moon, Hyunyoung. "Constructing the Modern Warrior: The U.S. Army and Gender." (P 2021).
Mosher, Melissa Beth. “Elizabeth Perkins and Jefferds Tavern: An Example of the Influence of the Colonial Revival upon Museums.” (M 1988).
Mulrooney, Margaret M. “ Hilton Village , Virginia : The Government's First Model Industrial Community.” (M 1990).
--------. “Labor at Home: The Domestic World of Workers at the du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902.” (P 1996).

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Neel, Hildy Michelle. "Out of Left Field: William Sarouyan's Thirties Fiction as a Reflection of the Great Depression." (M 1992).
--------. “Let us Now Praise Service Men: A History of the American World War II Personal Narrative, 1942-1945.” (P 1998).
Neidenbach, Elizabeth. "The Woman, the Legend, the Power: Fictional Representations of Marie Laveau in Twentieth Century Literature." (M 2005).
--------. "The Life and Legacy of Marie Couvent: Social Networks, Property Ownership, and the Making of a Free People of Color Community." (P 2015).
Nelson, Robert. “A Robe of Eloquence: Speech and Power in the Life and Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson.” (M 1998).
--------. “Society of Souls: Spirit, Friendship, and the Antebellum Reform Imagination.” (P 2006).
Newman, Megan Haley. "Perceptions of Poverty: Material Life Among the Tenements of New York City during the Nineteenth Century." (M 1993).
--------. “The Vermin-Killers: Pest Control in the Early Chesapeake .” (P 2001).
Nichols, Caroline C. “Monument to Sentiment: The Discourse of Nation and Citizenship at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.” (M 2001).
--------. "Celebrity and the National Body : Encounters with the Exotic in Late Nineteenth-Century America." (P 2008).
Nichols, Diane Truitt. “A Search for the Body: Lecriture Feminine and Delta Wedding.” (M 1990).
Norris, Tyler A. "Race, Childhood, and Native American Boarding Schools: A Case Study of the Hampton Normal." (M 2014).
--------. "Italy's American West: Brava Gente, American Indians, and the Circulation of Settler Colonialism." (P 2019).
Northrop-Barzilay, Karen E. “ ‘To Go With an Ungloved Hand Was Impossible': A History of Gloves, Hands, Sex, Wealth, and Power.” ( M 1998).
--------. "Fifty Gentlemen Total Strangers : A Portrait of the First Continental Congress." (P 2009).

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O'Dell, Margaret Darlene. “Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katherine duPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray.” (P 1997).
O'Grady, Elizabeth M. "You Have No Boss Here to Work for: Women and Labor in Chesapeake Bay fishing Communities." (M 2010).
Osborn, Adam Gardner. “Bill Hicks: A Study in National Character.” (M 2002).
Owen, Deborah Lynn. “Mann Thinking Across Antebellum Culture: Mann Satterwhite Valentine's Literary Aspirations.” (M 1993).
Owens, Jerry. “The Proper Role of Religious Conviction in Moral-Political Discourse.” (M 2001).

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Padilioni, James. "For How Could We Do Without Sugar and Rum? The Semiotics of Abolitionist Aesthetics." (M 2014).
------. "Iconographic and Performative Circulations of St. Martin de Porres in the African Diaspora." (P 2018).
Palmer, James, Jr. “Spousal Abuse in the Army.” (M 2004).
Parrish, Nancy C. “Fair and Tender Ladies at Tinker Creek: Women Writers Coming of Age.” (P 1993).
Patrick, Steven Edward. “ ‘I Would Not Begrudge to Give a Few Pounds More': Elite Consumer Choices in the Chesapeake, 1730-1785.” (M 1990).
Peake, Laura Ann. “The Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, 1894-1916.” (M 1995).
Peterson, Beverly Carol. “The Political Domestics: Sectional Issues in American Women's Fiction, 1852-1867.” (P 1994).
Pickens, Roxanne Victoria. “Notions of Refinement and Displays of Dignity in African-American Home Spaces, 1885-1935.” (M 2000).
--------. "Dark Play: Ethnicity and Festivity in Jazz Age Literature and Popular Culture." (P 2014).
Piper, Brian. "'You Just Had that Gut Feeling' : Film, Memory, and the Lynching of James Byrd, Jr." (M 2006).
--------. "Cameras At Work: African American Studio Photographers and the Business of Everyday Life, 1900-1970." (P 2016).
Pisha, Nicolette L. "Anime in America, Disney in Japan : The Global Exchange of Popular Media Visualized Through Disney's 'Stitch.'" (M 2010).
Pittman, William E. “Morphological Variability in Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century English Wine Bottles.” (M 1990).
Plater, Michael Andre. “R.C. Scott: A History of African-American Entrepreneurship in Richmond , 1890-1940.” (P 1993).
Pleasant, Joanna E. “Remembering American Wars in Three Controversial Displays: The Wall, the Enola Gay , and the Vietnam Era Educational Center.” (M 2001).
Powers, Emma Lou. “Landlords, Tenants, and Rental Property in Williamsburg and Yorktown , Virginia , 1730-1780.” (M 1990).
Pratt, David. "The Sacred Ginmill Closes: Heavy Drinking, White Masculinity, and the Hard-Boiled." (P 2017).
Price, Virginia Barrett. “Keeping Up Appearances: Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774.” (M 1998).
Proehl, Kristen Beth. “Re-Evaluating Sentimental Violence in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred.” (M 2004).
--------. "Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Race and the Tomboy Narrative in American Literature." (P 2011).
Prown, Henry. "Famine, Trial, War: The Daily Worker During the Great Depression." (P 2022).
Prown, Jonathan. “A Cultural Analysis of Furniture-Making in Petersburg , Virginia, 1760-1820.” (M 1993).
Prown, Katherine Hemple. “Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Antimodernist Tradition.” (M 1988).
--------. “Revisions and Evasions: Flannery O'Connor, Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship.” (P 1993).
Pruitt, Hollis. “No Longer Lost at Sea: Black Community Building In the Virginia Tidewater, 1865 to the post-1954 Era.” (P 2013).

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Quinn, Zarah. "Confronting America through Child of God and the Underground Railroad." (M 2017).

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R

Rainer, Joseph T. “Elisha Jackson's Tavern: A Rural Node of Power.” (M 1992).
--------. “The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South, 1800-1860.” (P 2000).
Rainey, James E. "Blurring Boundaries : The Rorschach Idea in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture." (M 2008).
Rainville, Brian C. "Walk to Freedom : How a Violent Response to the Civil Rights Protest at Alabama's Pettus Bridge Unwillingly Created the Voting Rights Act of 1965." (M 2009).
Rall, Elsa. "Women in the Wilderness: An Exploration of how Women Interacted, Adapted, and Thrived in the American Environment." (M 2021).
Ramsier, Allen Lewis. “Picturesque America : Packaging America for Popular Consumption.” (M 1985).
Rawles, Susan. “The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South.” (P 2000).
Reeder, Sarah E. "Reevaluating the Carnegie Survey : New Uses for Frances Benjamin Johnston's Pictorial Archive." (M 2007).
Reilley, Karen Merry. “Preserving Virginia 's Vision of the Past.” (M 1998).
Richardson, Ashley. "Producing the Latina Disney Princess." (M 2018).
Richardson, Kari S. “A World of Goods: The Printer's Economy in Eighteenth- Century Virginia .” (M 2000).
Richter, Caroline Julia. “The Prentis Family and their Library.” (M 1985).
Roberts, Luke Edward. “Colonial Virginia , National Identity, and Cold War Patriotism.” (M 2004).
Rodgers, Colleen. “God’s Not Dead, But Billy Graham Is: Media and Mourning in American Evangelicalism.” (M 2022).
Rofaelas, Apostolos. "Creolized Histories: Hybrid Literatures of the Americas." (P 2017).
Rose, Annjeanette C. “Remembering to Forget: Gone with the Wind , Roots , and Consumer History.” (M 1993).
Rose, Melinda Cameron Hapeman. “Desegregating Monument Avenue : Arthur Ashe and the Manufacturing of a New Social Reality in Richmond, Virginia .” (M 2002).
Rosenkranz, Anna C. "Obscured Conflations, (Un)Bending Frames: Considering the Concept of 'Truth' in the Politics and Rhetoric of the Religious Right." (M 2014).
Rosenthal, James E. "Interpreting Green Design in Old Buildings." (M 2008).
Ross, Jennifer. "Insurgents on the Bayou: Hurricane Katrina, Counterterrorism, and the Literary Dissent on America's Gulf Coast." (P 2020).
Rowe, Linda Hunter. “People the Power Structure: Urban Oriented Officeholders in York County , Virginia , 1699-1780.” (M 1989).
Royse, Lisa Gail. “William M. McClaskey: A Tavern Keeper in His Community, 1834-1844.” (M 1990).

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Sargent, Andrew. "A New England State of Mind: Identity and Commodification in Yankee Magazine, 1935-1942." (M 2011).
Sasser, Jackson N. "Escaping into the Prison Civil War Round Table." (M 2008).
--------. "Poor and Dead and Much Involved: The Afterlife of Private Debt in Post-Revolutionary Virginia." (P 2015).
Saunooke, Annette B. "Cherokee Royalties : The Impact of Indian Tourism on the Eastern Band Cherokee Identity." (M 2004).
Scaro, Robert Charles. “Why White Men Can't Jump. . . and Black Men Can't Think: An Analysis of the AmericanSports Media's Coverage of Basketball and its Players from 1980 to the Present.” (M 1993).
Schoel, Gretchen Ferris. “In Pursuit of Possibility: Elizabeth Ellet and the Women of the American Revolution.” (M 1992).
--------. "America.jp : Identity, Nationalism, and Power on the Internet, 1969-2000." (P 2004).
Scott, Angela. “The Not-So-Public History of Colonial Williamsburg's Port Resident-Ferrykeepers: Interpreting the Moody Family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781.” (M 2013).
Scott, Kathleen. “An Officer and a Lady.” (M 2001).
--------. "Recipe for Citizenship: Professionalization and Power in WWI Dietics." (P 2009).
Sentilles, Renee M. “Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey.” (P 1997).
Shen, Han. “Integrating the Personal and Political: the Body Politics in Daughter of Earth.” (M 2005).
Shepard, Cindy R. “An Introduction to Artist A.B. Jackson and His Portrayal of the American Neighborhood.” (M 1984).
Shilo, Molly. "I Feel Your Pain: Service-Learning Programs and the Liberal Narrative of Empathy." (M 2019).
Shine, Matthew David. “Gotta Travel On: A View of the American Road from Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, 1975.” (M 1992).
Siddiqui, Nabeel. "Byting out the Public: Personal Computers and the Private Sphere." (P 2018).
Sikk, Helis. "Affective Economies of Activism: Reimagining Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime." (P 2016).
Simpson, Jenna A. "Screening the Revolution: Williamsburg, the Story of a Patriot as Historic Artifact, History Film, and Hegemonic Struggle." (M 2007).
--------. "Living in the Past: Community and Change in Historical Commemorations at Plymouth, Williamsburg, and Salem." (P 2016).
Singleton, Elizabeth Marie. “Julia Gardiner Tyler: A President's Bride and Plantation Mistress in the Age of Domesticity.” (M 1986).
Smart, Ann Morgan. “The Urban/Rural Dichotomy of Status Consumption: Tidewater Virginia , 1815.” (M 1986).
Smith, Erica J. “Humble Servants, Prideful Patriarchs: Submission and Servanthood in Rhetoric of the Promise Keepers.” (M 2002).
Smith, Michaele. “You Can't Say 'No' To A Soldier: Sexual Violence in the United States during WWII.” (P 2013).
Smith, Sibley Judson, Jr. “Selling America in the Seventeenth Century: The Contribution of Ralph Hamor's True Discourse to the Establishment of the English Colony in America .” (M 1992).
Smyth, Karen Elizabeth. "What's a Nice Mormon Girl Like You Doing Writing About Vampires?" Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." (M 2011).
Sorensen, Leni Ashmore. “ ‘So That I Get Her Again': African American Slave Women Runaways in Selected Richmond , Virginia , Newspapers, 1830-1860, and the Richmond , Virginia , Police Guard Daybook, 1834-1843.” (M 1996).
--------. “Absconded: Fugitive Slaves in the Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834-1844,” (P 2005).
Spady, James O'Neil. “Friendly Meetings: The Art of Conquest and the Mythical Origins of Pennsylvania , ca. 1620-1771.” (M 2001).
--------. “Like the Spider from the Rose:’ Colonial Knowledge Competition and the Origins of Non-elite Education in Georgia and South Carolina, 1700s-1820s.” (P 2006).
Spear, Laura Mame. “Censorship, Cyberspace, and Community Standards: American Responses to On-line Obscenity.” (M 1996).
Speckart, Amy. "A Colonial History of Wye Plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Family, Property, and Power (P 2011).
Sprinkle, Mark Edgar E. “The Kids are (All) Right: Baby-boomers and the Rhetoric of Childhood in the Picture Books of Chris van Allsburg.” (M 1993).
--------.“Picturing Home: Domestic Painting and the Ideologies of Art.” (P 2004).
Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah. "'What is Best and Most Typical': Nostalgia, Transgression, and Capitalism at the Virginia State Fair. (M 2012).
-------. "Refining the Desert: the Politics of Wealth, Industrialization, and Environmental Risk in the Twentieth-Century Texas Oil Industry." (P 2017).
Stanton, Carol Ann McGowan. “Transitional Women in the Southern Works of Constance Fenimore Woolson.” (M 1988).
Stark, Susan Ann. “American Identity and the Wild West Show, 1880-1910.” (M 2002).
Stephens, Taylor. "The Lonely Ones: Selfhood and Society in Harry Stack Sullivan's Psychiatric Thought." (M 2018).
Stevens, Sarah. “Coming of Age in America: Margaret Mead’s reconstruction of adolescence for the 1920s.” (M 2005).
Stewart, Brian. “The Squared Circle and that Household Box: The Relationship Between Wrestling, Television and American Culture.” (M 2001).
Stewart, Janet Elizabeth. “Friends Departed Live: A Study of the Relationship Between Schoolgirl Mourning Pictures, Female Education, and Cultural Attitudes Toward Death in Early Nineteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts .” (M 1987).
Straube, Beverly Bogley. “Early English Firearms: A Re-Examination of the Evidence.” (M 1990).
Stringfield, Ravynn. "Black Capes, White Spies: An Exploration of Visual Identity, Evolving Heroism and 'Passing' in Marvel's 'Black Panther' Comics and Mat Johnson's Graphic Novel 'Incognegro'" (M 2018).
--------. "When Black Girls Fly: An Exploration of Black Girls' Multimedia Fantasy Narratives as Sites of Legacy, Lineage and Creative Freedom." (P 2022).
Stuckey, Amanda. "Reading Bodies: Disability and American Literary History, 1789-1889." (P 2017).
Suber, Lauren Jessica Brown. “Ritual, Roots, and Rectangles: Classical Tradition in Early American Portraiture.” (M 1992).
Subramanian, Alexandra Michos. “Caroline Gordon's Christian Vision: A Conservative Empowerment.” (M 1992).
--------. “Katherine Anne Porter and Her Publishers.” ( P 2001).
Sui, Wu. "Chinese Immigrants to America: Historical and Thematic Dimensions." (M 1990).
Sutton, Matthew. "Storyville: Discourses in Southern Musicians' Autobiographies." (P 2011).
Swenson, Benjamin A. "Postbellum Education of African Americans : Race, Economy, Power, and the Pursuit of a System of Schooling in the Rural Virginia Counties of Surry and Gloucester." (M 2004).
Symons, Andrea L.D. “Unrapping the Gangsta: The Changing Role of the Performer from Toast to Gangsta Rap.” (M 2003).

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Talbot, Melinda Grace. “Producing the Past: Museums, Reproductions, Consumers, and Authenticity.” (M 1998).
Taormina , Mary Frances. “A Social Historical Exploration of the Popularity of “The Rockford Files.” (M 1989).
Tharp, Brent Warren. “Preserving their Form and Features: The Role of Coffins in the American Understanding of Death.” (P 1996).
Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa. "From the Unpublished to the Refined: The Evolution of the Furniture Trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s." (P 2013).
Thompson, Anna. "The Scar Must Remain: Memory and the First World War in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray Series." (M 2014).
Thompson, Nancy L. "The Friendship Fest: Perfecting Friendship Through Transnational Musical Performance." (M 2008).
Tirak, Lita. "The American Grotesque: Liberal Idealism in Edward Bliss Foote's Science in Story." (M 2010).
--------. "Radiant Exposure: The Art and Spectacle of the X-Rayed Body in American Art visual Culture." (P 2016).
Tramposch, William Joseph. “The Seminar for Historical Administration: Companion to Change.” (M 1984).

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V

Valliant, Kevin. "Fears in Concrete Forms: Modernity and Horror in the United States; 1880-1939." (P 2015).
Vaughn, Carol Van Dessel. “Mark Twain, Richard Irving Dodge, and the Indian: Myth and Disillusionment.” (M 1984).
Veder, Robin Maremant. “Dying Virgins and Mourning Mothers: A Study in American Mourning Iconography.” (M 1995).
--------. “How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor and Luxury in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture.” (P 2000).
Vera, Kristi Marie. “Athletic Women in Fiction and Fact: The Portrayal of Women Involved in Athletic Activity in Novels from 1890-1920.” (M 1992).
Verplanck, Anne Ayer. “Benjamin Trott: Miniature Painter.” (M 1990).
--------. “Facing Philadelphia : The Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerrotypes, 1760-1860.” (P 1996).
Veselits, Karen Rose. “ ‘Prologue to a Life': Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance Years.” (P 2001).
Vo, Khanh. "Uncanny Objects: the Art of Moving and Looking Human." (M 2016).

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W

Waite, Rebecca S.L. “Katherine Anne Porter's Old Mortality and Virginia Woolf: A Study in Feminism.” (M 1998).
Walker, Corey D.B. “ ‘The Freemasonry of the Race': The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia .” (P 2001).
Wang, Helen Ye-Hua. “ ‘Our Street-Strutting Language': Asian American Rappers in a Hip-Hop Nation.” (M 2002).
Warner, Caroline E. "'Let all things be done decently and in order' : Gender Segregation in the Seating of Early American Churches." (M 2009).
Watkins, Sarah Howard. “The Negro Building : African-American Representation at the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition.” (M 1994).
Weinberg, Ari. "Songsters and film Scores: Civil War Music and American Memory." (M 2017).
Wesley, Deborah Rae. “An Isolating and Repressive Force: The Image of the Southern Lady in the Work of Lee Smith.” (M 1990).
Westcot, Andrea. "Outlaw Reproduction: Childbearing and the Making of Colonial Virginia, 1634-1785." (P 2014).
White, William E. “Charlatans, Embezzlers, and Murderers: Revolution Comes to Virginia , 1765-1775.” (P 1998).
Wierich, Jochen. “The Domestication of History in American Art.” (P 1998).
Wilbers, Christian. "Between Third Reich and American Way - Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of Belonging, 1919-1939." (P 2017).
Wilder, Eli T. “ ‘Traveling the White Man's Road': The Quest for Identity in Hampton 's Indian Newspaper, 1886-1907.” (M 1998).
Williams, Ashleigh. "Taking It to the Streets: Race, Space, and Early D.C. Punk." (M 2019).
Williams, Margaret Keeton. "Strategic Victimization: News Photographs, The Birmingham Children's Crusade, and the Revisualization of America." (M 2011).
Willis, Anne Romberg. “The Master's Merry: Slave Prosecutions and Punishments in York County , Virginia , 1700 to 1780.” (M 1995).
Wood, Meredith Abner. “Breaking the Formula: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Fiction.” (M 1990).
Woodward, Henry Canning. “Rock ‘n' Roll Stew: The Rolling Stones and Blues Music Through the Looking Glass of American Culture in the 1960s.” (M 1992).
Wright, Sarah Bird. “Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur.” (P 1995).

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Yaguchi, Yujin. “Japanese Business in the United States : Unintentional Definition of the Other.” (M 1991).
--------. “The Ainu in U.S.-Japan Relations.” (P 1999).
Yamazato, Akiko. “Interminority Relations in the Early 1990s in California : Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans.” (M 2003).
Yorimoto, Janine. “To draw pleasure and instruction: Robert Gilmor, Jr. and Collecting the Early Republic." (M 2013).
Yost, Jonathan. “Fixing What Has Been Broken: The United States' Actions in the Aftermath of the Looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 Invasion.”(M 2013).

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Z

Zeng, Shuting. "The Dalai Lama in American Documentaries: Symbol, Politics and American Mirroring." (M 2014).
Zheng, Juan. "African American cultural products and social uplift, the end of the 19th century - the early of the 20th century." (M 2004)
Zuber, Sharon Lynne. “Re-shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism and Direct Cinema.” (P 2004).

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Anderson, Crystal Suzette. “Far From Everybody's Everything': Literary Tricksters in African American and Chinese American Fiction.” (P 2000).
Ashe, Bertram Duane. “From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Fiction.” (P 1998).
Barnett, LaShonda K. "'Learning How to Listen': Analyzing Style & Meaning in the Music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone & Cassandra Wilson." (P 2012).
Bickham, Angela A. Father wasn't de onlies' one hidin' in de woods: the many images of maroons throughout the American South. (M 2004).
Bowles, Juliette Harris. “Natural Hair Styling: A Symbol and Function of African- American Women's Self-Creation.” (M 1990).
Brown, Bridget Mary. “Domestic Ideology and the Social Construction of the Mammy.” (M 1994).
Carroll, Nicole. “African American History at Colonial Williamsburg.” (M 1999).
Clark, Regina A. "The Brownies' Book : An Open Window to Early Twentieth-Century African American Childhood. (M 2009).
Cowan, William Tynes. “The Slave in the Swamp: Disrupting the Plantation Narrative.” (P 2001).
Devlin, Erin Krutko. "Justice is a Perpetual Struggle: Public Memory and the Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis." (P 2011).
Edmonds , Kristin Margaret. “Mouth with Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, and Authorship in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman.” (M 1996).
Edward-Ingram, Ywone. “Medicating Slavery: African-American Motherhood, Health Care, and Cultural Practices in the African Diaspora.” (P 2005).
Gaines, Mikal. "The Black Gothic Imaginary: Horror, Spectatorship, and Black Subjectivity in American Cinema from 1960 to the New Millennium." (P 2015).
Ghaemmaghami, Amy Carol. “Milk Enough for All: The African-American Woman's Quest for Identity and Authority in Toni Morrison's Beloved .” (M 1990).
Harris, Travis. "Lost Tribe of Magruder: The Untold Story of the Navy's Dispossession of a Black Community." (P 2019).
Hayes, Jeffreen. "Real Talk: Blackness and Whiteness in the Works of Jefferson Pinder, Dave Chappelle, and Aaron McGruder." (P 2012).
Hellier, Cathleene Betz. "The Waiting Man: Enslaved Male Domestics in Virginia, 1619-1800." (P 2020).
Holder, Meghan. "Strange Fruit: Images of African Americans in Advertising Cards and Postcards, 1860-1930." (M 2011).
Howard, Amanda L. “Stormy Weather: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and the Cultural Politics of Stardom.” (M 1999).
Johnson, Deanda Marie. "Seeking the Living Among the Dead: African American Burial Practices in Surry County,Virginia." (M 2004).
--------. “Thoroughly Modern: African American Women's Dress and the Culture of Consumption in Cleveland, Ohio, 1890-1940.” (P 2014).
Johnson, Tova J. "Performance of Black Female Sexuality in a Hip Hop Magazine." (M 2008).
Kosanovich, Kevin. "Building A Bronx Movement: A History of Hip-Hop Culture, 1951-1984." (P 2015).
Lankford, Kimberly Elaine. “Frederick Douglass's Intended Audiences for his Antebellum Autobiographies.” (M 1991).
Lawless, Joseph. "Of Mammies, Minstrels, and Machines: Movement-Image Automaticity and the Impossible Conditions of Black Humanity." (M 2019).
Maguire, Stephanie. "I Get a Kick Out of You: Cinematic Revisions of the History of African Americans in the American West." (M 2014).
Neidenbach, Elizabeth. "The Life and Legacy of Marie Couvent: Social Networks, Property Ownership, and the Making of a Free People of Color Community." (P 2015).
Padilioni, James. "For How Could We Do Without Sugar and Rum? The Semiotics of Abolitionist Aesthetics." (M 2014).
Peake, Laura Ann. “The Manassas School for Colored Youth, 1894-1916.” ( M 1995).
Pickens, Roxanne Victoria. “Notions of Refinement and Displays of Dignity in African-American Home Spaces, 1885-1935.” ( M 2000).
--------. "Dark Play: Ethnicity and Festivity in Jazz Age Literature and Popular Culture." (P 2014).
Piper, William B. "'You just had that gut feeling' : Film, Memory, and the Lynching of James Byrd, Jr." (M 2006).
--------. "Cameras At Work: African American Studio Photographers and the Business of Everyday Life, 1900-1970." (P 2016).
Plater, Michael Andre. “R.C. Scott: A History of African-American Entrepreneurship in Richmond , 1890-1940.” ( M 1993).
Pruitt, Hollis. “No Longer Lost at Sea: Black Community Building In the Virginia Tidewater, 1865 to the post-1954 Era.” (P 2013).
Rainville, Brian C. "Walk to Freedom : How a Violent Response to the Civil Rights Protest at Alabama's Pettus Bridge Unwillingly Created the Voting Rights Act of 1965." (M 2009).
Scaro, Robert Charles. “Why White Men Can't Jump…and Black Men Can't Think: An Analysis of the American Sports Media's Coverage of Basketball and its Players from 1980 to the Present.” (M 1993).
Sorensen, Leni Ashmore. “ ‘So that I Get Her Again': African American Slave Women Runaways in Selected Richmond , Virginia Newspapers, 1830-1860, and the Richmond , Virginia Police Guard Daybook, 1834-1843.” (M 1996).
--------. “Absconded: Fugitive Slaves in the Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834-1844,” (P 2005).
Stringfield, Ravynn. "When Black Girls Fly: An Exploration of Black Girls' Multimedia Fantasy Narratives as Sites of Legacy, Lineage and Creative Freedom." (P 2022).
Swenson, Benjamin A. "Postbellum Education of African Americans : Race, Economy, Power, and the Pursuit of a System of Schooling in the Rural Virginia Counties of Surry and Gloucester." (M 2004).
Symons, Andrea L.D. “Unrapping the Gangsta: The Changing Role of the Performer From Toast to Gangsta Rap.” (M 2003).
Watkins, Sarah Howard. “The Negro Building : African-American Representation at the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition.” (M 1994).
Willis, Anne Romberg. “The Master's Merry: Slave Prosecutions and Punishments in York County , Virginia , 1700 to 1780.” (M 1995).

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African Diaspora

Padilioni, James. "Iconographic and Performative Ciculations of St. Martin de Porres in the African Diaspora." (P 2018).

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American Literature

Anderson, Crystal Suzette. “Far From ‘Everybody's Everything': Literary Tricksters in African American and Chinese American Fiction.” (P 2000).
Anglin, Merit E. "Gone to the Dogs: Canine Capital and the Management of Biopolitical Fitness in American Literature and Culture, 1835-Present." (P 2012).
Ashe, Bertram Duane. “From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Fiction.” (P 1998).
Barnard, Timothy Lawrence. “Putting Masculinity into Words: Hemingway's Critique and Manipulation of American Manhood.” (M 1994).
--------. “Far out past: Hemingway, Manhood, and Modernism.” (P 2005).
Bennet, Kathryn. "The Economics of Loyalty: Robert Bonner, the New York Ledger, and Sentimental Capitalism." (P 2015).
Blanchard, Jennifer P. "More or Less Than Kind : Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." (P 2007).
Bly, Antonio T. “Intertextual [sic] Cadences, ‘When Wants and Woes Might Be Our Righteous Lot': Excavating Phyllis Wheatley's Transcending Voice of Accent.” (M 1999).
Bradford, Robert Dale. “When Southern Labor Stirred: The Literary Reaction to Gastonia.” (M 1986).
Burr, Sandra. “Science and the Imagination in Anglo-American Children’s Literature, 1760-1855.” (P 2005).
Chaltain, Samuel Spelman. “ ‘The Poet, the Poem, and the People': Etheridge Knight's American Counterpoetics.” (M 1999).
Cowan, William Tynes. “The Slave in the Swamp: Disrupting the Plantation Narrative.” (P 2001).
Cowing, Jessica. "Settler States of Ability: Assimilation, Incarceration, and Native Women's Crip Interventions." (P 2020).
DeBrava, Valerie. “Authorship and Individualism in American Literature.” (P 2000).
Edmonds, Kristin Margaret. “Mouth with Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, and Authorship in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman.” (M 1996).
Felker, Christopher D. "Sailing the Zig-Zag Course of a Hundred Tacks: R.W. Emerson's 'Each and All." (M 1988).
Fucile, Frank. "Terra Sacra: Lethal Environments and the Modern American War Novel." (P 2018).
Galante, Vera do Val. “Conspicuous Presence: Tom Wolfe's One Man Show.” (M 1992).
Gardner, Kevin. “Absalom, Absalom! and the Southern Code of Honor.” (M 1986).
Garland , David Travers. “American Dream Screams: Success Ideology and the Hollywood Novel Between the Two World Wars.” (M 1990).
Ghaemmaghami, Amy Carol. “Milk Enough for All: The African-American Woman's Quest for Identity and Authority in Toni Morrison's Beloved.” (M 1990).
Hailey, Christopher Blair. “Running on Empty: The Myth of the Automobile in Three Works by Chester Himes.” (M 1992).
Horton, Tonia Lanette. “The Freedom of a Broken Law: The Liminal World of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.” (M 1985).
Keller, Laura. "Terrible in its Beauty, Terrible in its Indifference: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Sally Mann's Sothern Landscapes." (M 2018).
Kidd, David. “History Written With Lightning”: Religion, White Supremacy, and the Rise and Fall of Thomas Dixon, Jr.” (P 2013).
Kingan, Renee. "When I Put on My Firespitter Mask: Jayne Cortez's (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations." (P 2018).
Lankford, Kimberly Elaine. “Frederick Douglass's Intended Audiences for his Antebellum Autobiographies.” (M 1992).
Luff, Jennifer D. “A Parlor in the Penitentiary: Prisons and Reading in Victorian America.” (M 1996).
Lunt, Catherine. “Generational Revolt and the Spirit of Capitalism: Fanny Fern's Confrontation with Calvinism, Class, and Gender Ideology in Ruth Hall.” (M 1994).
Mann, Kimberly L. "The First Thing Out The Window : Race, Radical Feminism, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." (M 2009).
Marcus, Hilary J. "Between Fact and Fiction: Writing by American Women in a Transnational Context." (P 2010).
McMaster, MaryKate. “A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles and Cultural Leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in Antebellum America.” (P 2001).
Miller, John D. "Buck-Horned Snakes and Possum Women: Non-White Folklore, Antebellum Southern Literature and Interracial Cultural Exchange." (P 2010).
Neel, Hildy Michelle. “Out of Left Field: William Saroyan's Thirties Fiction as a Reflection of the Great Depression.” (M 1992).
--------. “Let us Now Praise Service Men: A History of the American World War II Personal Narrative, 1942-1945.” (P 1998).
Neidenbach, Elizabeth. "The Woman, the Legend, the Power: Fictional Representations of Marie Laveau in Twentieth Century Literature." (M 2005).
Nelson, Robert. “A Robe of Eloquence: Speech and Power in the Life and Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson.” (M 1998).
Nichols, Diane Truitt. “A Search for the Body: Lecriture Feminine and Delta Wedding.” (M 1990).
O'Dell, Margaret Darlene. “Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray.” (P 1997).
Owen, Deborah Lynn. “Mann Thinking Across Antebellum Culture: Mann Satterwhite Valentine's Literary Aspirations.” (M 1993).
Parrish, Nancy C. “Fair and Tender Ladies at Tinker Creek: Women Writers Coming of Age.” (P 1993).
Peterson, Beverly Carol. “The Political Domestics: Sectional Issues in American Women's Fiction, 1852-1867.” (P 1994).
Proehl, Kristen Beth. “Re-Evaluating Sentimental Violence in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred.” (M 2004).
Prown, Katherine Hemple. “Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Antimodernist Tradition.” (M 1988).
--------. “Revisions and Evasions: Flannery O'Connor, Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship.” (P 1993).
Quinn, Zarah. "Confronting America through Child of God and the Underground Railroad." (M 2017).
Rofaelas, Apostolos. "Creolized Histories: Hybrid Literature of the Americas." (P 2017).
Rose, Annjeanette C. “Remembering to Forget: Gone with the Wind , Roots , and Consumer History.” (M 1993).
Ross, Jennifer. "Insurgents on the Bayou: Hurricane Katrina, Counterterrorism, and the Literary Dissent on America's Gulf Coast." (P 2020).
Shen, Han. “Integrating the Personal and Political: the Body Politics in Daughter of Earth.” (M 2005).
Stanton, Carol Ann McGowan. “Transitional Women in the Southern Works of Constance Fenimore Woolson.” (M 1988).
Stuckey, Amanda. "Reading Bodies: Disability and American Literary History, 1789-1889." (P 2017).
Subramanian, Alexandra Michos. “Katherine Anne Porter and Her Publishers.” (P 2001).
Valliant, Kevin. "Fears in Concrete Forms: Modernity and Horror in the United States; 1880-1939." (P 2015).
Vaugh, Carol Van Dessel. “Mark Twain, Richard Irving Dodge, and the Indian: Myth and Disillusionment.” (M 1984).
Vera, Kristi Marie. “Athletic Women in Fiction and Fact: The Portrayal of Women Involved in Athletic Activity in Novels from 1890-1920s.” (M 1992).
Veselits, Karen Rose. “ ‘Prologue to a Life': Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance Years. 1926-1934.” (M 2001).
Waite, Rebecca S.L. “Katherine Anne Porter's Old Mortality and Virginia Woolf: A Study in Feminism.” (M 1999).
Wesley, Deborah Rae. “An Isolating and Repressive Force: The Image of the Southern Lady in the Work of Lee Smith.” (M 1990).
Wood, Meredith Abner. “Breaking the Formula: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Fiction.” (M 1990).
Wright, Sarah Bird. “Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur.” (P 1995).

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Animal Studies

Garcia, Lindsay. "Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World." (M 2016).
-------. "Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the non/Human Imaginary." (P 2020).
Monahan, Linda. "Understanding 'Road Kill' through an Animal Method." (M 2015).

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Art History

Boldt, Janine. "The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia." (P 2018).
Chasse, Sarah. "A Certain Kinship: The First Exhibitions of American Folk Art, New York, 1924-1932." (M 2011).
Chieffo, Toby Maria. “Joshua Johnson: Filling the Lacunae.” (M 1995).
--------. "Nathaniel Jocelyn : In the Service of Art and Abolition." (P 2005).
Cohen, Matthew. “Framing the Woman Artist: Gender and Art in Howells and Sargent.” (M 1995).
Doyle, Colleen M. “ ‘Post-humously Hot': Bill Traylor's Life and Art.” (M 1994).
Feman, Seth. "Paint by Nation: Thomas Kinkade and the Conversion of American Culture." (M 2005).
--------. "District and Capital: The Art of Modern Washington." (P 2017).
Fuhrman, Anne Mary. “The Craft of Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century America.” (M 1992).
Garcia, Lindsay. "Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World." (M 2016).
Gittinger, Anne M. "Class Act : Negotiating Art and Market in the Career of Isadora Duncan." (M 2010).
Kaziewicz, Julia. "Artful Manipulation: The Rockefeller Family and Cold War America." (P 2015).
Matthews, "Barry" John. "New South(ern) Landscapes: Reenvisioning Tourism, Industry, and the Environment in the American South." (M 2016).
Reeder, Sarah E. "Reevaluating the Carnegie Survey : New Uses for Frances Benjamin Johnston's Pictorial Archive." (M 2007).
Rosenthal, James E. "Interpreting Green Design in Old Buildings." (M 2008).
Shepard, Cindy R. “An Introduction to Artist A.B. Jackson and his Portrayal of the American Neighborhood.” (M 1984).
Sprinkle, Mark. “Picturing Home: Domestic Painting and the Ideologies of Art.” (P 2004).
Suber, Lauren Jessica Brown. “Ritual, Roots, and Rectangles: The Classical Tradition in Early American Portraiture.” (M 1992).
Verplanck, Anne Ayer. “Benjamin Trott: Miniature Painter.” (M 1990).
Wierich, Jochen. “The Domestication of History in American Art, 1848-1876.” (P 1998).
--------. "A Certain Kinship: The First Exhibitions of American Folk Art, New York, 1924-1932." (M 2011).

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Asian America

Anderson, Crystal Suzette. “Far From ‘Everybody's Everything': Literary Tricksters in African American and Chinese American Fiction.” (P 2000).
Cohen, Amber S. "The Immigrant, the Native Son, and the Ambassador : The Transnational Travels of Godzilla, Speed Racer, and Akira." (M 2010).
Johnson, Maya A. "Harem Fantasies and Music Videos : Contemporary Orientalist Representation." (M 2007).
Li, Kai-yin Allison. “Lost Chances in Sino-American Relations: The Burden of Myth, Culture, and Ideology, 1949-1953.” (M 1997).
Pisha, Nicolette L. "Anime in America, Disney in Japan : The Global Exchange of Popular Media Visualized Through Disney's 'Stitch.'" (M 2010).
Wang, Helen Ye-Hua. “ ‘Our Street-Strutting Language': Asian American Rappers in a Hip-Hop Nation.” (M 2002).
Wu, Sui. “Chinese Immigrants to America : Thematic Dimensions.” (M 1990).
Yaguchi, Yujin. “Japanese Business in the United States : Unintentional Definition of the Other.” (M 1991).
--------. “The Ainu in U.S.-Japan Relations.” (P 1999).
Yamazato, Akiko. “Interminority Relations in the Early 1990s in California : Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans.” (M 2003).

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Childhood-Education

Bates, Christina Jean. “Prescription and Practice: A Comparison of Child-Care Manuals, Fashion Journals and Mail-Order Catalogues on the Subject of Children's Dress, 1875-1900.” (M 1989).
Clark, Regina A. "The Brownies' Book: An Open Window to Early Twentieth-Century African American Childhood." (M 2009).
Crawford, Meredith. “Envisioning Black Childhood: Black Nationalism, Community, and Identity Construction in Black Arts Movement Children’s Literature.” (M 2005).
Cude, Michelle Dawn. “Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind the Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit of the Truth.” (M 1997).
Korwin-Pawlowski, Wendy J. "Pleasure and Peril : Shaping Children's Reading in the Early Twentieth Century." (M 2006).
Norris, Tyler A. "Race, Childhood, and Native American Boarding Schools: A Case Study of the Hampton Normal." (M 2014).
Peake, Laura Ann. “The Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, 1894- 1916.” (M 1995).
Sprinkle, Mark Edgar E. “The Kids Are (All) Right: Baby-boomers and the Rhetoric of Childhood in the Picture Books of Chris Van Allsburg.” (M 1993).
Stevens, Sarah. “Coming of Age in America: Margaret Mead’s reconstruction of adolescence for the 1920s.” (M 2005).
Stewart, Janet Elizabeth. “Friends Departed Live: A Study of the Relationship Between Schoolgirl Mourning Pictures, Female Education, and Cultural Attitudes Toward Death in Early Nineteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts .” (M 1987).
Swenson, Benjamin A. "Postbellum Education of African Americans : Race, Economy, Power, and the Pursuit of a System of Schooling in the Rural Virginia Counties of Surry and Gloucester." (M 2004).

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Colonial History-Early America

Baird, Bruce Chandler, Jr. “New Land Acquisition in the Colonial Chesapeake , 1660- 1706.” (M 1990).
Baker, Wendy Joyce. “ ‘A Sketch of Sufferings': Power and Patronage in Daniel Fisher's Virginia 1750-1755.” (M 1992).
Barry, Laura Pass. “Optical Instruments Used with Prints in the Eighteenth Century.” (M 2004).
Berg, Susan Stromei. “Agent of Change or Trusted Servant: The Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Press.” (M 1992).
Bigler, Philip. “John Leacock's ‘The Fall of British Tyranny in the Whig Propaganda Offensive: The Personalization of the Resolution.” (M 1984).
Boldt, Janine. "The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia." (P 2018).
Broadwater, John David. “ Yorktown Shipwreck 44YO88: Stores and Cargo from a British Naval Supply Vessel from the American War for Independence.” (M 1989).
Cobb, John Michael. “The Shaping of Kecoughtan, 1607-1624: ‘A Delicate and Necessary Seat for a City or Chief Fortification.” (M 2002).
Curran, Barbara Anne. “Tobacco and Cloth: A Century of Virginia Clothing Acquisition, 1607-1707.” (M 1994).
Fuhrman, Anne Mary. “The Craft of Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century America.” (M 1992).
Greenman, John Starr. “The Rise of Benjamin Waller: 1716-1786.” (M 1994).
Hellier, Cathleene Betz. “Private Land Development in Williamsburg , 1699-1748.” (M 1989).
--------. "The Waiting Man: Enslaved Male Domestics in Virginia, 1619-1800." (P 2020).
Hildreth, Linda A. “The Fate of the Cabinetmaking Trade in Williamsburg , Virginia in the Post-Revolutionary Period.” (M 1988).
Howell, Mark Hunter. “A War of Words: Satire and Song in the Pre-Revolutionary Virginia Gazettes.” (M 1998).
Hughes, Shannon Lynn. “Luxury Consumption in 1815 Fredericksburg , Virginia : Gender, Race, and the Personal Property Tax.” (M 1999).
Hunter, Phyllis Whitman. “Ship of Wealth: Massachusetts Merchants, Foreign Goods, and the Transformation of Anglo-America, 1670-1760.” (P 1996).
Hyland, Matthew Gantert. “ Montpelier : The History of a House, 1723-1998.” (P 2004).
Jones, Joseph Benjamin. “Anglo-Siouan Relations in Virginia 's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732.” (M 1989).
Kahler, Gerald Edward. “ Washington in Glory , America in Tears: The Nation Mourns the Death of George Washington, 1799-1800.” (P 2003).
Kuettner, Angelika R. "'Goods-- agreeable to the Association': The Scottish Merchant Trade and Early Tea Boycotts in Virginia." (M 2008).
Lewes, David W. “In Parisian Salons and Boston 's Back Streets: Reading Jefferson 's Notes on the State of Virginia.” (M 2002).
Ligon, Samantha M. “The Fashionable Set: The Feasibility of Social Tea Drinking in 1774.” (M 1999).
Lovell, Barry Scott. “The Costumes of the Past: The First Virginia and the Authenticity of Historical Reenacting.” (M 1992).
Luccketti, Nicholas Michael. “Archaeology at Bennett Farm: The Life Style of a Seventeenth-Century Middling Planter in York County, Virginia.” (M 1990).
Malone, Mollie C. “A Dinner at the Governor's Palace, 10 September 1770.” (M 1998).
Masters, Joanna Margaret. “Dressing Behavior in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.” (M 1993).
McPherson, Anne Shelton. “Sugar Chests in Middle Tennessee , 1800-1835.” (M 1996).
Mosher, Melissa Beth. “Elizabeth Perkins and Jefferds Tavern: An Example of the Influence of the Colonial Revival upon Museums.” (M 1988).
Mulrooney, Margaret M. “ Hilton Village , Virginia : The Government's First Model Industrial Community.” (M 1990).
Newman, Megan Haley. “The Vermin-Killers: Pest Control in the Early Chesapeake.” (P 2001).
Norris, Tyler. "Italy's American West: Brava Gente, American Indians, and the Circulation of Settler Colonialism." (P 2019).
Northrop-Barzilay, Karen E. "Fifty Gentlemen Total Strangers : A Portrait of the First Continental Congress." (P 2009).
Patrick, Steven Edward. “ ‘I Would Not Begrudge to Give a Few Pounds More': Elite Consumer Choices in the Chesapeake , 1730-1785: The Calvert House Ceramic Assemblage.” (M 1990).
Pittman, William E. “Morphological Variability in Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century English Wine Bottles.” (M 1990).
Powers, Emma Lou. “Landlords, Tenants, and Rental Property in Williamsburg and Yorktown , Virginia , 1730-1780.” (M 1990).
Price, Virginia Barrett. “Keeping Up Appearances: Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774.” (M 1998).
Rainer, Joseph T. “Elisha Jackson's Tavern: A Rural Node of Power.” (M 1992).
--------. “The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South, 1800-1860.” (P 2000).
Richardson, Kari S. “A World of Goods: The Printer's Economy in Eighteenth- Century Virginia .” (M 2000).
Richter, Caroline Julia. “The Prentis Family and their Library.” (M 1985).
Rowe, Linda Hunter. “People the Power Structure: Urban Oriented Officeholders in York County, Virginia 1699-1780.” (M 1989).
Royse, Lisa Gail. “William M. McClaskey: A Tavern Keeper in His Community, 1834- 1844.” (M 1990).
Sasser, Jackson. "Poor and Dead and Much Involved: The Afterlife of Private Debt in Post-Revolutionary Virginia." (P 2015).
Schoel, Gretchen Ferris. “In Pursuit of Possibility: Elizabeth Ellet and the Women of the American Revolution.” (M 1992).
Scott, Angela. “The Not-So-Public History of Colonial Williamsburg's Port Resident-Ferrykeepers: Interpreting the Moody Family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781.” (M 2013).
Smart, Ann Morgan. “The Urban/Rural Dichotomy of Status Consumption: Tidewater Virginia, 1815.” (M 1986).
Smith, Sibley Judson, Jr. “Selling America in the Seventeenth Century: The Contribution of Ralph Hamor's True Discourse to the Establishment of the English Colony in America.” (M 1992).
Spady, James O'Neil. “Friendly Meetings: The Art of Conquest and the Mythical Origins of Pennsylvania , ca. 1620-1771.” (M 2001).
--------. “Like the Spider from the Rose:’ Colonial Knowledge Competition and the Origins of Non-elite Education in Georgia and South Carolina, 1700s-1820s.” (P 2006).
Speckart, Amy. "A Colonial History of Wye Plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Family, Property, and Power." (P 2011).
Straube, Beverly Ann. “Early English Firearms: A Re-examination of the Evidence.” (M 1990).
Suber, Lauren Jessica Brown. “Ritual, Roots, and Rectangles: The Classical Tradition in Early American Portraiture.” (M 1992).
Westcot, Andrea. "Outlaw Reproduction: Childbearing and the Making of Colonial Virginia, 1634-1785." (P 2014).
White, William E. “Charlatans, Embezzlers, and Murderers: Revolution Comes to Virginia 1765-1775.” (P 1998).
Willis, Anne Romberg. “The Master's Merry: Slave Prosecutions and Punishments in York County , Virginia , 1700 to 1780.” (M 1995).

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Comics

Stringfield, Ravynn. "Black Capes, White Spies: An Exploration of Visual Black Identity, Evolving Heroism and 'Passing' in Marvel's 'Black Panther' Comics and Mat Johnson's Graphic Novel 'Incognegro.'" (M 2018).

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Consumer Culture

Adams, Sarah E. "A dollar book for a dime!: The Vernacular of Cheapness and the Beadle Dime Handbooks." (M 2012).
Bates, Christina Jean. “Prescription and Practice: A Comparison of Child-Care Manuals, Fashion Journals and Mail-Order Catalogues on the Subject of Children's Dress, 1875-1900.” (M 1989).
Bazylinski, Alison. "Fabric Makes the Woman: Rural Women and the Politics of Textile Knowledge." (P 2020).
Bryant, Meghan. "Strange Fruit: Images of African Americans in Advertising Cards and Postcards, 1860-1930." (M 2012).
Cloeren, Nicole B. “ ‘C' is for Cookie, Culture, and Capitalism: The Muppet Phenomenon in the United States.” (M 1999).
Cordulack, Evan. "Consumer Under Fire: Vietnam and the Military Consumer." (M 2006).
Curran, Barbara Anne. “Tobacco and Cloth: A Century of Virginia Clothing Acquisition, 1607-1707.” (M 1994).
Garcia, Lindsay. "Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World." (M 2016).
Glosson, Sarah. "Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen’s Fans in America." (P 2015).
Hilpert, Zachary. "Ruins Reframed: The Commodification of American Urban Disaster, 1861-1906." (P 2014).
Hughes, Shannon Lynn. “Luxury Consumption in 1815 Fredericksburg , Virginia : Gender, Race, and the Personal Property Tax.” (M 1999).
Hunter, Phyllis Whitman. “Ship of Wealth: Massachusetts Merchants, Foreign Goods, and the Transformation of Anglo-America, 1670-1760.” (P 1996).
Kelly, Neeve. "Nationalism by Design: Reimagining Irish Identity in the American Marketplace." (P 2019).
Klimchock, Carolee A. "Plastic Capital : Wilmington, Delaware and the Deregulation of Consumer Credit." (M 2008).
Korwin-Pawlowski, Wendy. "Material Literacy: Alphabets, Bodies, and Consumer Culture." (P 2017).
Kosanovich, Kevin W. "Re-Taking It to the Streets: Investigating Hip-Hop's Emergence in the Spaces of Late Capitalism." (M 2008).
------. "Building A Bronx Movement: A History of Hip-Hop Culture, 1951-1984." (P 2015).
Matthews, Barry. "New South(ern) Landscapes: Reenvisioning Tourism, Industry, and the Environment in the American South." (M 2016).
Patrick, Steven Edward. “ ‘I Would Not Begrudge to Give a Few Pounds More': Elite Consumer Choices in the Chesapeake, 1730-1785: The Calvert House Ceramic Assemblage.” (M 1990).
Rainer, Joseph T. “The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South, 1800-1860.” (P 2000).
Ramsier, Allen Lewis. “Picturesque America : Packaging America for Popular Consumption.” (M 1985).
Rose, Annjeanette C. “Remembering to Forget: Gone with the Wind , Roots , and Consumer History.” (M 1993).
Sargent, Andrew. "A New England State of Mind: Identity and Commodification in Yankee Magazine, 1935-1942." (M 2011).
Smart, Ann Morgan. “The Urban/Rural Dichotomy of Status Consumption: Tidewater Virginia, 1815.” (M 1986).
Talbot, Melinda Grace. “Producing the Past: Museums, Reproductions, Consumers, and Authenticity.” (M 1998).
Thompson, Anna. "The Scar Must Remain: Memory and the First World War in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray Series." (M 2014).
Veder, Robin Maremant. “How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor and Luxury in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture.” (P 2000).

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Decorative Arts-MaterialCulture

Barry, Andrew. "Domestic Brick Architecture in Williamsburg: A Comparative Study of Eighteenth-Century Brick Homes in Williamsburg, Annapolis, and Charleston." (M 2004).
Barry, Laura Pass. “Optical Instruments Used with Prints in the Eighteenth Century.” (M 2004).
Battaile, Anne Bayne. “Mysterious Messages: Masonic Images in Baltimore Album Quilts.” (M 2000).
Bazylinski, Alison. "Fabric Makes the Woman: Rural Women and the Politics of Textile Knowledge." (P 2020).
Bishop, Lisa Brenner. “A Social History of the Private Fence in Nineteenth-Century America.” (M 2000).
Boulton, Alexander Ormond. “Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect of an Age.” (M 1993).
Bowles, Juliette Harris. “Natural Hair Styling: A Symbol and Function of African- American Women's Self-Creation.” (M 1990).
Curran, Barbara Anne. “Tobacco and Cloth: A Century of Virginia Clothing Acquisition, 1607-1707.” (M 1994).
Davey, Frances Evelyn. “Wild, Wearable, and Seaworthy.” (M 1996).
Gaeta , Anne Elizabeth. “The Quaker Influence on Nantucket Architecture: A Case Study.” (M 1990).
Geraghty, Mary. “Domestic Management of Woodlawn Plantation: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis and Her Slaves.” (M 1993).
Hildreth, Linda A. “The Fate of the Cabinetmaking Trade in Williamsburg , Virginia in the Post-Revolutionary Period.” (M 1988).
Hyland, Matthew Gantert. “Montepelier: The History of a House, 1723-1998.” (P 2004).
Johnston, Jessica Williams. “A Distinctive Chest of Drawers: Using Material Culture to Interpret the Past and the Present.” (M 1996).
Keenan, Stephanie Mary. “The Willoughby-Baylor House: Form and Symbol.” (M 1990).
Ligon, Samantha M. “The Fashionable Set: The Feasability of Social Tea Drinking in 1774.” (M 1999).
Luccketti, Nicholas Michael. “Archaeology at Bennett Farm: The Life Style of a Seventeenth-Century Middling Planter in York County, Virginia.” (M 1990).
Malone, Mollie C. “A Dinner at the Governor's Palace, 10 September 1770.” (M 1998).
Masters, Joanna Margaret. “Dressing Behavior in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.” (M 1993).
McPherson, Anne Shelton. “Sugar Chests in Middle Tennessee , 1800-1835.” (M 1996).
McPherson, Beth Ann Spiryson. “Fort Hill: A Representative of the Structural and Social Hierarchy and Harmony of Greek Revival Architecture.” (M 1996).
Newman, Megan Haley. "Perceptions of Poverty: Material Life Among the Tenements of New York City during the Nineteenth Century." (M 1993).
Northrop-Barzilay, Karen E. “ ‘To Go With an Ungloved Hand Was Impossible': A History of Gloves, Hands, Sex, Wealth, and Power.” (M 1998).
Padilioni, James. "For How Could We Do Without Sugar and Rum? The Semiotics of Abolitionist Aesthetics." (M 2014).
Patrick, Steven Edward. “ ‘I Would Not Begrudge to Give a Few Pounds More': Elite Consumer Choices in the Chesapeake , 1730-1785: The Calvert House Ceramic Assemblage.” (M 1990).
Pickens, Roxanne Victoria. “Notions of Refinement and Displays of Dignity in African-American Home Spaces, 1885-1935.” (M 2000).
Pittman, William E. “Morphological Variability in Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century English Wine Bottles.” (M 1990).
Price, Virginia Barrett. “Keeping Up Appearances: Elizabeth Allen at Bacon's Castle, 1711-1774.” (M 1998).
Prown, Jonathan. “A Cultural Analysis of Furniture-Making in Petersburg , Virginia , 1760-1820.” (M 1993).
Richardson, Kari S. “A World of Goods: The Printer's Economy in Eighteenth- Century Virginia.” (M 2000).
Richter, Caroline Julia. “The Prentis Family and their Library.” (M 1985).
Singleton, Elizabeth Marie. (M 1986).
Straube, Beverly Ann. “Early English Firearms: A Re-examination of the Evidence.” (M 1990).
Tharp, Brent Warren. “Preserving their Form and Features: The Role of Coffins in the American Understanding of Death.” (P 1996).
Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa. "From the Unpublished to the Refined: The Evolution of the Furniture Trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s." (P 2013).
Veder, Robin. “Dying Virgins and Mourning Mothers: A Study in American Mourning Iconography.” (M 1995).
Verplanck, Anne Ayer. “Benjamin Trott: Miniature Painter.” (M 1990).
--------. “Facing Philadelphia : The Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerrotypes, 1760-1860.” (P 1996).
Vo, Khanh. "Uncanny Objects: the Art of Moving and Looking Human." (M 2016).
Yorimoto, Janine. “To draw pleasure and instruction: Robert Gilmor, Jr. and Collecting the Early Republic." (M 2013).

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Disability Studies

Cowing, Jessica. "Settler States of Ability: Assimilation, Incarceration, and Native Women's Crip Interventions." (P 2020).
Stuckey, Amanda. "Reading Bodies: Disability and American Literary History, 1789-1889." (P 2017).

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Education

Shilo, Molly. "I Feel Your Pain: Service-Learning Programs and the Liberal Narrative of Empathy." (M 2019).

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Empire

Hunt, Edward. "The Politics of Empire: The United States and the Global Structure of Imperialism in the Early Twenty-First Century." (P 2016).

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Foodways

Lautenschlager, Julie Lynn. “Food Fight!: America 's Ideological Battle Over Lunch.” (P 2003).

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Gender Studies

Barnard, Timothy Lawrence. “Putting Masculinity into Words: Hemingway's Critique and Manipulation of American Manhood.” (M 1994).
Brown, Bridget Mary. “Domestic Ideology and the Social Construction of the Mammy.” (M 1994).
Cohen, Matthew. “Framing the Woman Artist: Gender and Art in Howells and Sargent.” (M 1995).
--------. “The Still Life: Domesticity, Subjectivity, and the Bachelor in Nineteenth-Century America .” (P 2002).
Edmonds , Kristin Margaret. “Mouth with Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, and Authorship in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman.” (M 1996).
Freeman, Margaret. "To Seek the Good, the True, and the Beautiful: White Greek-Letter Sororities in the U.S. South and the Shaping of American Ladyhood, 1915-1975." (P 2011).
Glisson, Susan M. “ ‘Neither Bedecked nor Bebosomed': Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and Women's Leadership and Organizing in the Struggle for Freedom.” (P 2000).
Gonaver, Wendy. "The Peculiar Institution: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry." (P 2012).
Huebenthal, Jan. "Injury & Resistance: Centering HIV/AIDS Histories in Times of Queer Equality." (P 2019).
Jerome, Alexandra. "Shahrazad in the White City: Muslim Women's Agency and Performance at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition." (M 2011).
Johnson, Tova J. "Performance of Black Female Sexuality in a Hip Hop Magazine." (M 2008).
LeFave, Helen Grace. “A Place of Honor and Fruitfulness: World War One and the War Activities of Women from the Elite Women's Colleges.” (M 1994).
Lunt, Catherine. “Generational Revolt and the Spirit of Capitalism: Fanny Fern's Confrontation with Calvinism, Class, and Gender Ideology in Ruth Hall.” (M 1994).
Mann, Kimberly L. "The First Thing Out The Window : Race, Radical Feminism, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." (M 2009).
Marcus, Hilary J. "Between Fact and Fiction: Writing by American Women in a Transnational Context." (P 2010).
Miller, John D. "Buck-Horned Snakes and Possum Women: Non-White Folklore, Antebellum Southern Literature and Interracial Cultural Exchange." (P 2010).
Nichols, Diane Truitt. “A Search for the Body: Lecriture Feminine and Delta Wedding.” (M 1990).
O'Grady, Elizabeth M. "You Have No Boss Here to Work for: Women and Labor in Chesapeake Bay fishing Communities." (M 2010).
Parrish, Nancy C. “Fair and Tender Ladies at Tinker Creek: Women Writers Coming of Age.” (P 1993).
Pratt, David. "The Sacred Ginmill Closes: Heavy Drinking, White Masculinity and the Hard-Boiled." (P 2017).
Prown, Katherine Hemple. “Revisions and Evasions: Flannery O'Connor, Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship.” (P 1993).
Schoel, Gretchen Ferris. “In Pursuit of Possibility: Elizabeth Ellet and the Women of the American Revolution.” (M 1992).
Scott, Kathleen. “An Officer and a Lady.” (M 2001).
Sikk, Helis. "Affective Economies of Activism: Reimagining Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime." (P 2016).
Smith, Michaele. “You Can't Say 'No' To A Soldier: Sexual Violence in the United States during WWII.” (P 2013).
Sorensen, Leni Ashmore. “ ‘So that I Get Her Again': African American Slave Women Runaways in Selected Richmond , Virginia Newspapers, 1830-1860, and the Richmond , Virginia Police Guard Daybook, 1834-1843.” (M 1996).
Stanton, Carol Ann McGowan. “Transitional Women in the Southern Works of Constance Fenimore Woolson.” (M 1988).
Thompson, Anna. "The Scar Must Remain: Memory and the First World War in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray Series." (M 2014).
Vera, Kristi Marie. “Athletic Women in Fiction and Fact: The Portrayal of Women Involved in Athletic Activity in Novels from 1890-1920s.” (M 1992).
Waite, Rebecca S.L. “Katherine Anne Porter's Old Mortality and Virginia Woolf: A Study in Feminism.” (M 1998).
Warner, Caroline E. "'Let all things be done decently and in order': Gender Segregation in the Seating of Early American Churches." (M 2009).
Wesley, Deborah Rae. “An Isolating and Repressive Force: The Image of the Southern Lady in the Work of Lee Smith.” (M 1990).
Wood, Meredith Abner. “Breaking the Formula: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Fiction.” (M 1990).

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Geography (Natural Resources, Development)

Baird, Bruce Chandler, Jr. “New Land Acquisition in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1660- 1706.” (M 1990).
Bruggeman, Seth Charles. “The Shenandoah River Gundalow and the Politics of Material Reuse.” (M 2000).
Fucile, Frank. "Terra Sacra: Lethal Environments and the Modern American War Novel." (P 2018).
Garcia, Lindsay. "Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World." (M 2016).
Hellier, Cathleene Betz. “Private Land Development in Williamsburg , 1699-1748.” (M 1989).
Heuvel, Lisa. "English Mineral Exploration in the New World." (M 2005).
Hilpert, Zachary. "Ruins Reframed: The Commodification of American Urban Disaster, 1861-1906." (P 2014).
Kosanovich, Kevin. "Building A Bronx Movement: A History of Hip-Hop Culture, 1951-1984." (P 2015).
Luccketti, Nicholas Michael. “Archaeology at Bennett Farm: The Life Style of a Seventeenth-Century Middling Planter in York County, Virginia.” (M 1990).
Newman, Megan Haley. “The Vermin-Killers: Pest Control in the Early Chesapeake.” (P 2001).
Powers, Emma Lou. “Landlords, Tenants, and Rental Property in Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia, 1730-1780.” (M 1990).
Veder, Robin Maremant. “How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor and Luxury in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture.” (P 2000).

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History of Science

Anthony, Matthew. "Surgical and Rigorous (Yet Always Fun): Science, Sport, and Community in American Birding, 1950-1980." (P 2020).

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Immigration

Kennedy-Shaffer, Alan. "Voters in a Foreign Land: Alien Suffrage and Citizenship in the United States, 1704-1926." (M 2009).
Wu, Sui. “Chinese Immigrants to America: Thematic Dimensions.” (M 1990).

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Journalism

Barry, Laura Pass. “Optical Instruments Used with Prints in the Eighteenth Century.” (M 2004).
Berg, Susan Stromei. “Agent of Change or Trusted Servant: The Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Press.” (M 1993).
Bumb, Matthew J. "Against Bullshit : Christopher Hitchens and the Public Intellectual." (M 2005).
Burton , Pamela Sue. “Beyond Telling the News: The Mission of Public Journalism.” (M 1996).
Green, Charles. "Passing into Print: Walt Whitman and his Publishers." (P 2004).
Howell, Mark Hunter. “A War of Words: Satire and Song in the Pre-Revolutionary Virginia Gazettes.” (M 1998).
Johnson, Tova J. "Performance of Black Female Sexuality in a Hip Hop Magazine." (M 2008).
McMaster, MaryKate. “A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles and Cultural Leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in Antebellum America.” (P 2001).
Prown, Henry. "Famine, Trial, War: The Daily Worker During the Great Depression." (P 2022).
Sargent, Andrew. "A New England State of Mind: Identity and Commodification in Yankee Magazine, 1935-1942." (M 2011).
Zuber, Sharon Lynne. “Re-shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism and Direct Cinema.” (P 2004).

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Labor History

Bradford, Robert Dale. “When Southern Labor Stirred: The Literary Reaction to Gastonia.” (M 1986).
Linebaugh, Donald W. “ ‘The Road to Ruins and Restoration': Roland W. Robbins and the Professionalization of Historical Archaeology.” (P 1996).
Luff, Jennifer D. "Judas Exposed: Labor Spies in the United States." (P 2005).
Matthews, Amy Procter. “Organized Labor: The Past, Present, and Future of Nurse- Midwifery in America.” (M 1990).
Mulrooney, Margaret M. “Labor at Home: The Domestic World of Workers at the du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902.” (P 1996).
Newman, Megan Haley. “The Vermin-Killers: Pest Control in the Early Chesapeake.” (P 2001).
O'Grady, Elizabeth M. "You Have No Boss Here to Work for: Women and Labor in Chesapeake Bay fishing Communities." (M 2010).
Plater, Michael Andre. “R.C. Scott: A History of African-American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940.” (P 1993).
Prown, Henry. "Famine, Trial, War: The Daily Worker During the Great Depression." (P 2022).
Rawles, Susan. “The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South.” (P 2000).
Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah. "Refining the Desert: Politics of Wealth, Indutrialization, and the Environmental Risk in the Twentieth-Century Texas Oil Industry." (P 2017).
Yaguchi, Yujin. “Japanese Business in the United States: Unintentional Definition of the Other.” (M 1991).

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Latin America

Diaz, Ella Maria. “1500 by 1936 by 1998 - - These are the Measurements of Malinche's Body: An Analysis and Review of Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Nationality.” (M 2002).
--------. "Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force." (P 2010).
McKinney, Jane Dillon. “ Anguilla and the Art of Resistance.” (P 2002).
Yamazato, Akiko. “Interminority Relations in the Early 1990s in California : Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans.” (M 2003).

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Media (Film, Television, Cyberspace)

Aube, Christine Lokotsch. “The Enduring Villain: Germans as Nazi Stereotypes in American Cinema.” (M 1998).
Bransford, Stephen Henry. “Unstable Compounds: Progressive and Repressive Impulses in Four Contemporary American Documentaries and the Prospect for Social Change.” (M 1996).
Gaines, Mikal. "Beating Songs: Blues, Violence and the Male Body in the Films of Spike Lee." (M 2005).
--------. "The Black Gothic Imaginary: Horror, Spectatorship, and Black Subjectivity in American Cinema from 1960 to the New Millennium." (P 2015).
Hodge, Amber. "The Rise and Fall of the WB: 'Dawson's Creek,' Intertextuality, and Legitimation." (M 2012).
Howard, Amanda L. “Stormy Weather: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and the Cultural Politics of Stardom.” (M 1999).
Johnson, Maya A. "Harem Fantasies and Music Videos : Contemporary Orientalist Representation." (M 2007).
Kahler, Abby. "Mother of Dragons: White Feminist Imperialism in HBO's Game of Thrones." (M 2020).
Kott, Julia. "Beyond the Podium: A Critical Analysis of Three Online Learning Tools." (M 2020).
Mann, Kimberly. "Genuine Made-in-Americans: Living Machines and the Technological Body in the Postwar Science Fiction Imaginary, 1944-1968." (P 2014).
McDonald, Ryan J. "You(s) on the Tube : Deconstructing (American) (Cyber) Selves Inscribed in the Diary Blog and Diary Vlog." (M 2008).

Meyers, Kayla. "I figured you were probably watching us: Ex Machina and the Performativity of Lateral Surveilance." (M 2017).
Piper, William B. "'You just had that gut feeling' : Film, Memory, and the Lynching of James Byrd, Jr." (M 2006).
Pisha, Nicolette L. "Anime in America, Disney in Japan : The Global Exchange of Popular Media Visualized Through Disney's 'Stitch.'" (M 2010).
Richardson, Ashley. "Producing the Latina Disney Princess." (M 2018).
Rodgers, Colleen. “God’s Not Dead, But Billy Graham Is: Media and Mourning in American Evangelicalism.” (M 2022).
Scaro, Robert Charles. “Why White Men Can't Jump. . .and Black Men Can't Think: An Analysis of the American Sports News Media's Coverage of Basketball and its Players from 1980 to the Present.” (M 1993).
Schoel, Gretchen Ferris. "America.jp : Identity, Nationalism, and Power on the Internet, 1969-2000." (P 2004).
Sentilles, Renee M. "Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey." (P 1997).
Simpson, Jenna A. "Screening the Revolution: Williamsburg, the Story of a Patriot as Historic Artifact, History Film, and Hegemonic Struggle." (M 2007).
Smith, Erica J. “Humble Servants, Prideful Patriarchs: Submission and Servanthood in the Rhetoric of the Promise Keepers.” (M 2002).
Spear, Laura Mame. “Censorship, Cyberspace, and Community Standards: American Responses to On-line Obscenity.” (M 1996).
Stewart, Brian. “The Squared Circle and that Household Box: The Relationship Between Wrestling, Television, and American Culture.” (M 2001).
Stringfield, Ravynn. "When Black Girls Fly: An Exploration of Black Girls' Multimedia Fantasy Narratives as Sites of Legacy, Lineage and Creative Freedom." (P 2022).
Taormina , Mary Frances. “A Social Historical Exploration of the Popularity of ‘The Rockford Files.'” (M 1989).
Zuber, Sharon Lynne. “Re-shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism and Direct Cinema.” (P 2004).

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Mental Health and Society

Stephens, Taylor. "The Lonely Ones: Selfhood and Society in Harry Stack Sullivan's Psychiatric Thought." (M 2018).

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Military History

Broadwater, John David. “Yorktown Shipwreck 44YO88: Stores and Cargo From a British Naval Supply Vessel From the American War for Independence.” (M 1989).
Diaz, Ella Maria. "Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force." (P 2010).
Donald, Colin James. “Who Controlled Cruise?: The 1983 Deployment of Cruise Missiles in the United Kingdom and the Post-1985 Anglo-American Special Relationship in Defense.” (M 1989).
LeFave, Helen Grace. “A Place of Honor and Fruitfulness: World War One and the War Activities of Women from the Elite Women's Colleges.” (M 1994).
Neel, Hildy Michelle. “Let us Now Praise Service Men: A History of the American World War II Personal Narrative, 1942-1945.” (P 1998).
Palmer, James, Jr. “Spousal Abuse in the Army.” (M 2004).
Pleasant, Joanna E. “Remembering American Wars in Three Controversial Displays: The Wall, the Enola Gay, and the Vietnam Era Educational Center.” (M 2001).
Scott, Kathleen. “An Officer and a Lady.” (M 2001).
--------. "Recipe for Citizenship: Professionalization and Power in WWI Dietics." (P 2009).
Straube, Beverly Ann. “Early English Firearms: A Re-Examination of the Evidence.” (M 1990).
White, William E. “Charlatans, Embezzlers, and Murderers: Revolution Comes to Virginia , 1765-1775.” (P 1998).

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Mortuary & Memorial Culture

Larson, Zoey. "A dress of the right length to die in": Mortuary and Memorial Practices Amongst Depression-Era Tenant Farmers of the Piedmont South." (M 2012).

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Museums-Public History

Bruggeman, Seth. "Birthing Washington: Objects, Memory and the Creation of a National Movement." (P 2006).
Carlson, Sachi. "Sunt Antiquissima Quaequae Optima: The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and the Weaponization of Nostalgia in the Service of White Identity." (M 2020).
Carroll, Nicole. “African American History at Colonial Williamsburg.” (M 1999).
Chasse, Sarah. "A Certain Kinship: The First Exhibitions of American Folk Art, New York, 1924-1932." (M 2011).
Delvin, Erin Krutko. “Colonial Williamsburg 's Slave Auction Re-enactment: Controversy, African American History and Public Memory.” (M 2004).
DiBenigno, Maria. "Ghosts in the Museum: The Haunting of Virginia's Public History." (P 2020).
Ecker, Jordan M. “Entertaining Education or Purely Entertainment: A Case Study of the Yorktown Victory Center.” (M 2014).
Hawkins, Callie. "An Interpretive Plan for the Newry, South Carolina Cotton Mill Museum." (M 2011).
Lovell, Barry Scott. “The Costumes of the Past: The First Virginia and the Authenticity of Historical Reenacting.” (M 1992).
McNutt, Jill Angela. “The Other Faces of Mount Rushmore : Tourism, Advertising, and the Commodity of Experience.” (M 1996).
Mieras, Emily. “Oz in the Valley of Ashes : Visions of Tomorrow at the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964.” (M 1993).
Mosher, Melissa Beth. “Elizabeth Perkins and Jefferds Tavern: An Example of the Influence of the Colonial Revival upon Museums.” (M 1988).
Nichols, Caroline. “Monument to Sentiment: The Discourse of Nation and Citizenship at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.” (M 2001).
Pleasant, Joanna E. “Remembering American Wars in Three Controversial Displays: The Wall, the Enola Gay, and the Vietnam Era Educational Center.” (M 2001).
Reilley, Karen Merry. “Preserving Virginia 's Vision of the Past.” (M 1998).
Roberts, Luke Edward. “Colonial Williamsburg , National Identity, and Cold War Patriotism.” (M 2004).
Rose, Melinda Cameron Hapeman. “Desegregating Monument Avenue : Arthur Ashe and the Manufacturing of a New Social Reality in Richmond, Virginia.” (M 2002).
Simpson, Jenna. "Living in the Past: Community and Change in Historical Commemorations at Plymouth, Williamsburg, and Salem." (P 2016).
Talbot, Melinda Grace. “Producing the Past: Museums, Reproductions, Consumers, and Authenticity.” (M 1998).
Tramposch, William Joseph. “The Seminar for Historical Administration: Companion to Change.” (M 1984).
Watkins, Sarah Howard. “The Negro Building : African-American Representation at the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition.” (M 1994).
Yost, Jonathan. “Fixing What Has Been Broken: The United States' Actions in the Aftermath of the Looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 Invasion.” (M 2013).

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Music

Aarlien, Peggy F. "The Alan Lomax Photographs and the Music of Williamsburg." (M 2010).
Anderson, Benjamin. "Blue Notes and Brown Skin: Five African-American Men and the Music they Created in Regards to the Civil Rights Movement." (M 2005).
--------. "Seeing (for) Miles: Jazz, Race, and Objects of Performance." (P 2014).
Barnett, LaShonda. "'Learning How to Listen': Analyzing Style and Meaning in the Music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, and Cassandra Wilson." (P 2012).
Carpenter, Lisa. "Folk into Art: John Fahey, Modernism and the American Folk Revival." (M 2017).
Dacey, Katherine. “ ‘Gershwin Gone Native!': The Influence of Primitivism and Folk Music on Porgy and Bess.” (M 2001).
Dougan, John M. “The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, and the Prisonaires.” (M 1997).
--------. “Two Steps from the Blues: Creating Discourse and Constructing Canons in Blues Criticism.” (P 2001).
Glosson, Sarah G. "Domestic Music Making in Late Eighteenth-Century Elite Chesapeake Society: The "Elegant Selections" of Shirley Plantation." (M 2009).
Gschwend, Katherine Hinchliffe. “John A. Lomax: Documenting the Myth of the American West.” (M 1995).
Harris, Travis. "Putin' on for Da Lou: Hip Hop's Response to Racism in St. Louis." (M 2016).
Howard, Amanda L. “Stormy Weather: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and the Cultural Politics of Stardom.” (M 1999).
Johnson, Maya A. "Harem Fantasies and Music Videos : Contemporary Orientalist Representation." (M 2007).
Johnson, Tova J. "Performance of Black Female Sexuality in a Hip Hop Magazine." (M 2008).
Jones, Brian. "Members, Don't Git Weary: Max Roach, Treme, and the Sound of Resistance." (M 2015).
--------. "Becoming Paul Motian: Identity, Labor, and Musical Invention." (P 2020).
Kingan, Renee M. "'Taking it out!': Jayne Cortez's Collaborations with the Firespitters." (M 2009).
--------. "When I Put on My Firespitter Mask: Jayne Cortez's (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations." (P 2018).
Kosanovich, Kevin W. "Re-Taking It to the Streets: Investigating Hip-Hop's Emergence in the Spaces of Late Capitalism." (M 2008).
--------. "Building A Bronx Movement: A History of Hip-Hop Culture, 1951-1984." (P 2015).
Modeste, Jackie. "Remembering the Briarpatch: Music and the Making of an American Literary Tradition—Albert Murray's Scooter Series.” (P 2004).
Shine, Matthew David. “Gotta Travel On: A View of the American Road from Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, 1975.” (M 1992).
Sutton, Matthew. "Storyville: Discourses in Southern Musicians' Autobiographies." (P 2011).
Symons, Andrea L.D. “Unrapping the Gangsta: The Changing Role of the Performer from Toast to Gangsta Rap.” (M 2003).
Thompson, Nancy L. "The Friendship Fest : Perfecting Friendship Through Transnational Musical Performance." (M 2008).
Wang, Helen Ye-Hua. “ ‘Our Street-Strutting Language': Asian American Rappers in a Hip-Hop Nation.” (M 2002).
Weinberg, Ari. "Songsters and film Scores: Civil War Music and American Memory." (M 2017).
Williams, Ashleigh. "Taking It to the Streets: Race, Space, and Early D.C. Punk." (M 2019).
Woodward, Henry Canning. “Rock 'n' Roll Stew: The Rolling Stones and Blues Music Through the Looking Glass of American Culture in the 1960s.” (M 1992).

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Native America

Cowing, Jessica. "Settler States of Ability: Assimilation, Incarceration, and Native Women's Crip Interventions." (P 2020).
Gibson, Tracey Ann. “Civilizing the Savages: Cherokee Advances, White Settlement, and the Rhetoric of Removal.” (M 1995).
Jones, Joseph Benjamin. “Anglo-Siouan Relations on Virginia 's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732.” (M 1989).
Kingan, Renee. "When I Put on My Firespitter Mask: Jayne Cortez's (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations." (P 2018).
Norris, Tyler. "Italy's American West: Brava Gente, American Indians, and the Circulation of Settler Colonialism." (P 2019).
Vaughn, Carol Van Dessel. “Mark Twain, Richard Irving Dodge, and the Indian: Myth and Disillusionment.” (M 1984).
Wilder, Eli T. “ ‘Traveling the White Man's Road': The Quest for Identity in Hampton 's Indian Newspaper, 1886-1907.” (M 1998).

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Native America and Indigenous Studies

Kuragano, Leah. “Colonial Apprehension: Hawaiian Indigeneity in U.S. American Popular Culture, 1945-1980.” (P 2022).

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Politics-Nationhood

Baker, Wendy Joyce. “ ‘A Sketch of Sufferings': Power and Patronage in Daniel Fisher's Virginia 1750-1755.” (M 1992).
Bigler, Philip. “John Leacock's ‘The Fall of British Tyranny' in the Whig Propaganda Offensive: The Personalization of the Resolution.” (M 1984).
Diaz, Ella Maria. "1500 by 1936 by 1998 -- These are the Measurements of Malinche's Body: An Analysis and Review of Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Nationality." (M 2002).
Donald, Colin James. “Who Controlled Cruise?: The 1983 Deployment of Cruise Missiles in the United Kingdom and the Post-1985 Anglo-American Special Relationship in Defense.” (M 1989).
Glisson, Susan M. “ ‘Neither Bedecked nor Bebosomed': Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and Women's Leadership and Organizing in the Struggle for Freedom.” (P 2000).
Grunder, Sarah L. "Spectacle of Citizenship: Print Media and the Construction of Americanness 1880-1940." (P 2010).
Howard, Amanda L. “More than Shelter: Community, Identity, and Spatial Politics in San Francisco.” (P 2005)
Ito, Kyoko. “ ‘Country,' Past, and Nostalgia: Examination of an American Popular Ideal.” (M 1993).
Kahler, Gerald Edward. “ Washington in Glory , America in Tears: The Nation Mourns the Death of George Washington, 1799-1800.” (M 2003).
Kennedy-Shaffer, Alan. "Voters in a Foreign Land: Alien Suffrage and Citizenship in the United States, 1704-1926." (M 2009).
Lewes, David W. “In Parisian Salons and Boston 's Back Streets: Reading Jefferson 's Notes on the State of Virginia .” ( M 2002).
McDonald, Ryan J. "Reengineering Global Higher Education: American Polytechnics, Transnationalization, and Cultural Configuration." (P 2012).
Nelson, Robert. “Society of Souls: Spirit, Friendship, and the Antebellum Reform Imagination.” (P 2006).
Nichols, Caroline C. “Monument to Sentiment: The Discourse of Nation and Citizenship at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.” (M 2001).
Rosenkranz, Anna C. "Obscured Conflations, (Un)Bending Frames: Considering the Concept of "Truth" in the Politics and Rhetoric of the Religious Right." (M 2014).
Rowe, Linda Hunter. “People the Power Structure: Urban Oriented Officeholders in York County , Virginia , 1699-1780.” (M 1989).
Saunooke, Annette B. "Cherokee Royalties : The Impact of Indian Tourism on the Eastern Band Cherokee Identity." (M 2004).
Schoel, Gretchen Ferris. “In Pursuit of Possibility: Elizabeth Ellet and the Women of the American Revolution.” (M 1992).
--------. "America.jp : Identity, Nationalism, and Power on the Internet, 1969-2000." (P 2004).
Scott, Kathleen M. "Recipe for Citizenship: Professionalization and Power in WWI Dietics." (P 2009).
Smith, Sibley Judson, Jr. “Selling America in the Seventeenth Century: The Contribution of Ralph Hamor's ‘True Discourse to the Establishment of the English Colony in America.'” (M 1992).
Wilbers, Christian. "Between Third Reich and American Way- Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of Belonging, 1919-1939." (P 2017).
Zeng, Shuting. "The Dalai Lama in American Documentaries: Symbol, Politics and American Mirroring." (M 2014).

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Popular Culture

Aarlien, Peggy F. "The Alan Lomax Photographs and the Music of Williamsburg." (M 2010).
Bennet, Kathryn. "The Economics of Loyalty: Robert Bonner, the New York Ledger, and Sentimental Capitalism." (P 2015).
Bowles, Juliette Harris. “Natural Hair Styling: A Symbol and Function of African- American Women's Self-Creation.” (M 1990).
Cloeren, Nicole B. “ ‘C' is for Cookie, Culture, and Capitalism: The Muppet Phenomenon in the United States.” (M 1999).
Cohen, Amber S. "The Immigrant, the Native Son, and the Ambassador : The Transnational Travels of Godzilla, Speed Racer, and Akira." (M 2010).
Cordulack, Evan. "Imagining Saigon: American Interpretatons of Saigon in the Twentieth Century." (P 2013).
DiBenigno, Maria. "Ghosts in the Museum: The Haunting of Virginia's Public History." (P 2020).
Dougan, John M. “The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, and the Prisonaires.” (M 1997).
Glosson, Sarah. "Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen’s Fans in America." (P 2015).
Hayes, Jeffreen. "Real Talk: Blackness and Whiteness in the Works of Jefferson Pinder, Dave Chappelle, and Aaron McGruder." (P 2012).
Hodge, Amber. "The Rise and Fall of the WB: 'Dawson's Creek,' Intertextuality, and Legitimation." (M 2012)
Howard, Amanda L. “Stormy Weather: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and the Cultural Politics of Stardom.” (M 1999).
Hubenthal, Jan. "'Quick! Do Something Manly!' -- The Super Bowl as an American Spectacle of Hegemonic Masculinity, Violence, and Nationalism." (M 2013).
Johnson, Maya A. "Harem Fantasies and Music Videos : Contemporary Orientalist Representation." (M 2007).
Johnson, Tova J. "Performance of Black Female Sexuality in a Hip Hop Magazine." (M 2008).
Kahler, Abby. "Mother of Dragons: White Feminist Imperialism in HBO's Game of Thrones." (M 2020).
Kosanovich, Kevin W. "Re-Taking It to the Streets: Investigating Hip-Hop's Emergence in the Spaces of Late Capitalism." (M 2008).
--------. "Building A Bronx Movement: A History of Hip-Hop Culture, 1951-1984." (P 2015).
Kuragano, Leah. “Colonial Apprehension: Hawaiian Indigeneity in U.S. American Popular Culture, 1945-1980." (P 2022)
Markarian, Robyn. "You Are NOT the Father!: Family, Race and Maury in America." (M 2013).
Meyers, Kayla. "I figured you were probably watching us: Ex Machina and the Performativity of Lateral Surveilance." (M 2017).
Mieras, Emily. “Oz in the Valley of Ashes: Visions of Tomorrow at the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964.” (M 1993).
Nichols, Caroline C. "Celebrity and the National Body : Encounters with the Exotic in Late Nineteenth-Century America." (P 2008).
Osborn, Adam Gardner. “Bill Hicks: A Study in National Character.” (M 2002).
Pickens, Roxane Victoria. "Dark Play: Ethnicity and Festivity in Jazz Age Literature and Popular Culture." (P 2014).
Pisha, Nicolette L. "Anime in America, Disney in Japan : The Global Exchange of Popular Media Visualized Through Disney's 'Stitch.'" (M 2010).
Pratt, David. "The Sacred Ginmill Closes: Heavy Drinking, White Masculinity and the Hard-Boiled." (P 2017).
Rainey, James E. "Blurring Boundaries : The Rorschach Idea in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture." (M 2008).
Scaro, Robert Charles. “Why White Men Can't Jump. . .and Black Men Can't Think: An Analysis of the American Sports News Media's Coverage of Basketball and its Players from 1980 to the Present.” (M 1993).
Shine, Matthew David. “Gotta Travel On: A View of the American Road from Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.” (M 1992).
Spear, Laura Mame. “Censorship, Cyberspace, and Community Standards: American Responses to On-line Obscenity.” (M 1996).
Stark, Susan Ann. “American Identity and the Wild West Show, 1880-1910.” (M 2002).
Stewart, Brian. “The Squared Circle and That Household Box: The Relationship Between Wrestling, Television and American Culture.” (M 2001).
Symons, Andrea L.D. “Unrapping the Gangsta: The Changing Role of the Performer From Toast to Gangsta Rap.” (M 2003).
Taormina, Mary Frances. “A Social Historical Exploration of the Popularity of ‘The Rockford Files.'” (M 1989).
Woodward, Henry Canning. “Rock ‘n' Roll Stew: The Rolling Stones and Blues Music through the Looking Glass of American Culture in the 1960s.” (M 1992).

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Queer Studies

Huebenthal, Jan. "Injury & Resistance: Centering HIV/AIDS Histories in Times of Queer Equality." (P 2019).

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Race-Ethnicity

Adkins, Katrin L. “Performing Race: Instances of Color Representation in American Culture.” (M 2003).
Aube, Christine Lokotsch. “The Enduring Villain: Germans as Stereotypes in American Cinema.” (M 1998).
Blaiklock, Vania. "Two Sides of the Same Token: An Examination of Segregation, Memory, and White Supremacy in Contemporary Church Schools." (M 2022).
Brown, Darryl Keith. “Racism and Race Relations in the University.” (M 1991).
Carlson, Sachi. "Sunt Antiquissima Quaequae Optima: The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and the Weaponization of Nostalgia in the Service of White Identity." (M 2020).
Chieffo, Toby M. "Nathaniel Jocelyn : In the Service of Art and Abolition." (P 2005).
Clark, Regina A. "The Brownies' Book : An Open Window to Early Twentieth-Century African American Childhood. (M 2009).
Cosco, Joseph P. “Eyeing Italians: Race, Romance, and Reality in American Perception, 1880-1910.” (P 1999).
Devlin, Erin Krutko. "Justice is a Perpetual Struggle: Public Memory and the Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis." (P 2011).
Gaines, Mikal. "The Black Gothic Imaginary: Horror, Spectatorship, and Black Subjectivity in American Cinema from 1960 to the New Millennium." (P 2015).
Gonaver, Wendy. "The Peculiar Institution: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry." (P 2012).
--------. "The Peculiar Institution: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry." (P 2012).
Harris, Travis. "Putin' on for Da Lou: Hip Hop's Response to Racism in St. Louis." (M 2016).
--------. "Lost Tribe of Magruder: The Untold Story of the Navy's Dispossession of a Black Community." (P 2019).
Hayes, Jeffreen. "Real Talk: Blackness and Whiteness in the Works of Jefferson Pinder, Dave Chappelle, and Aaron McGruder." (P 2012).
Holder, Meghan. "Strange Fruit: Images of African Americans in Advertising Cards and Postcards, 1860-1930." (M 2011).
Jerome, Alexandra. "Shahrazad in the White City: Muslim Women's Agency and Performance at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition." (M 2011).
Johnson, Maya A. "Harem Fantasies and Music Videos : Contemporary Orientalist Representation." (M 2007).
Johnson, Tova J. "Performance of Black Female Sexuality in a Hip Hop Magazine." (M 2008).
Jones, Brian. "Becoming Paul Motian: Identity, Labor, and Musical Invention." (P 2020).
Kelly, Neeve. "Nationalism by Design: Reimagining Irish Identity in the American Marketplace." (P 2019).
Kuragano, Leah. "Race and Culture in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States and Colonial Hawai'i." (M 2017).
Mann, Kimberly L. "The First Thing Out The Window : Race, Radical Feminism, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." (M 2009).
Miller, John D. "Buck-Horned Snakes and Possum Women: Non-White Folklore, Antebellum Southern Literature and Interracial Cultural Exchange." (P 2010).
Norris, Tyler A. "Race, Childhood, and Native American Boarding Schools: A Case Study of the Hampton Normal." (M 2014).
Piper, William B. "'You just had that gut feeling' : Film, Memory, and the Lynching of James Byrd, Jr." (M 2006).
Rainville, Brian C. "Walk to Freedom : How a Violent Response to the Civil Rights Protest at Alabama's Pettus Bridge Unwillingly Created the Voting Rights Act of 1965." (M 2009).
Rose, Melinda Cameron Hapeman. “Desegregating Monument Avenue : Arthur Ashe and the Manufacturing of a New Social Reality in Richmond, Virginia.” (M 2002).
Ross, Jennifer. "Insurgents on the Bayou: Hurricane Katrina, Counterterrorism, and the Literary Dissent on America's Gulf Coast." (P 2020).
Saunooke, Annette B. "Cherokee Royalties : The Impact of Indian Tourism on the Eastern Band Cherokee Identity." (M 2004).
Shilo, Molly. "I Feel Your Pain: Service-Learning Programs and the Liberal Narrative of Empathy." (M 2019).
Stark, Susan Ann. “American Identity and the Wild West Show, 1880-1910.” (M 2002).
Sui, Wu. “Chinese Immigrants to America : Thematic Dimensions.” (M 1990).
Walker, Corey D.B. “ ‘The Freemasonry of the Race': The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia.” (P 2001).
Williams, Ashleigh. "Taking It to the Streets: Race, Space, and Early D.C. Punk." (M 2019).
Yamazato, Akiko. “Interminority Relations in the Early 1990s in California : Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans.” (M 2003).

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Religion

Bailey, Judith Bledsoe. “ ‘Faithful Child of God': Nancy Towle, 1796-1876.” (M 2000).
Blaiklock, Vania. "Two Sides of the Same Token: An Examination of Segregation, Memory, and White Supremacy in Contemporary Church Schools." (M 2022).
--------. "Strength for the Journey: Feminist Theology and Baptist Women Pastors." (P 2014).
Chowning, Elizabeth Jane. “Harmony and Dissonance: Mennonite Visions of Community and Identity.” (M 1993).
Harris, Travis. "Putin' on for Da Lou: Hip Hop's Response to Racism in St. Louis." (M 2016).
Kammer, Donald. "The United States Army Chaplain as Prophet in the Twenty-First Century: Is There a Soul of Goodness in Evil Things." (M 2005).
Fairbairn, Brenda Buddeke. “The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Newport News, Virginia.” (M 1985).
Gonaver, Wendy. "The Peculiar Institution: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry." (P 2012).
Kobayashi, Fumie. “Christian Parenting: Baptists and the Birds and Bees.” (M 2003).
Lee, Sarah J. "Saints and Soldiers of Humanity: Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo." (M 2004).
--------. "Utopian Spaces : Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo, Illinois." (P 2009).
Lunt, Catherine. “Generational Revolt and the Spirit of Capitalism: Fanny Fern's Confrontation with Calvinism, Class, and Gender Ideology in Ruth Hall.” (M 1994).
Owens, Jerry. “The Proper Role of Religious Conviction in Moral-Political Discourse.” (M 2001).
Rodgers, Colleen. “God’s Not Dead, But Billy Graham Is: Media and Mourning in American Evangelicalism.” (M 2022).
Rosenkranz, Anna C. "Obscured Conflations, (Un)Bending Frames: Considering the Concept of "Truth" in the Politics and Rhetoric of the Religious Right." (M 2014).
Smith, Erica J. “Humble Servants, Prideful Patriarchs: Submission and Servanthood in the Rhetoric of the Promise Keepers.” (M 2002).
Subramanian, Alexandra Michos. “Caroline Gordon's Christian Vision: A Conservative Empowerment.” (M 1992).
Warner, Caroline E. "'Let all things be done decently and in order' : Gender Segregation in the Seating of Early American Churches." (M 2009).

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Social Service

Fairbairn, Brenda Buddeke. “The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Newport News, Virginia.” (M 1985).
Kott, Julia. "Beyond the Podium: A Critical Analysis of Three Online Learning Tools." (M 2020).
Mieras, Emily. “ ‘A More Perfect Sympathy': College Students and Social Service.” (P 1998).

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Southern Culture

Aarlien, Peggy F. "The Alan Lomax Photographs and the Music of Williamsburg." (M 2010).
Bradford, Robert Dale. “When Southern Labor Stirred: The Literary Reaction to Gastonia.” (M 1986).
Carroll, Frederick J. "New Deal Housing on the Virginia Peninsula : Challenging Jim Crow paternalism at Swantown and Aberdeen Gardens." (M 2004).
Cha, Frank. “Southern Orientation: Navigating Asian Pacific American Identity and Place in Contemporary Southern Literature and Film.” (P 2013).
Cowan, William Tynes. “The Slave in the Swamp: Disrupting the Plantation Narrative.” (P 2001).
Freeman, Margaret. "To Seek the Good, the True, and the Beautiful: White Greek-Letter Sororities in the U.S. South and the Shaping of American Ladyhood, 1915-1975." (P 2011).
Gardner, Kevin. “Absalom, Absalom! and the Southern Code of Honor.” (M 1986).
Glosson, Sarah G. "Domestic Music Making in Late Eighteenth-Century Elite Chesapeake Society : The "Elegant Selections" of Shirley Plantation." (M 2009).
Hawkins, Callie. "An Interpretive Plan for the Newry, South Carolina Cotton Mill Museum." (M 2011).
Howard, Elizabeth. “Every American Should Stand Here Once": Jamestown's 400th Anniversary Commemoration and the Creation of an American Origin Narrative.” (M 2013).
Keller, Laura. "Terrible in its Beauty, Terrible in its Indifference: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Sally Mann's Southern Landscapes." (M 2018).
Manzo, Bettina. “John Minson Galt II and the Print Culture at Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg Virginia, 1840-1860.” (P 2004).
Matthews, Barry. "New South(ern) Landscapes: Reenvisioning Tourism, Industry, and the Environment in the American South." (M 2016).
O'Dell, Margaret Darlene. “Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray.” (P 1997).
Peterson, Beverly Carol. “The Political Domestics: Sectional Issues in American Women's Fiction, 1852-1867.” (P 1994).
Prown, Katherine Hemple. “Revisions and Evasions: Flannery O'Connor, Southern Literary Culture, and the Problem of Female Authorship.” (P 1993).
Reeder, Sarah E. "Reevaluating the Carnegie Survey : New Uses for Frances Benjamin Johnston's Pictorial Archive." (M 2007).
Rofaelas, Apostolos. "Creolized Histories: Hybrid Literatures of the Americas." (P 2017).
Simpson, Jenna A. "Screening the Revolution: Williamsburg, the Story of a Patriot as Historic Artifact, History Film, and Hegemonic Struggle." (M 2007).
Speckart, Amy. "A Colonial History of Wye Plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Family, Property, and Power." (P 2011).
Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah. "'What is Best and Most Typical': Nostalgia, Transgression, and Capitalism at the Virginia State Fair. (M 2012).
Sutton, Matthew. "Storyville: Discourses in Southern Musicians' Autobiographies." (P 2011).
Wesley, Deborah Rae. “An Isolating and Repressive Force: The Image of the Southern Lady in the Work of Lee Smith.” (M 1990).

Technology

Siddiqui, Nabeel. "Byting out the Public: Personal Computers and the Private Sphere." (P 2018).

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Visual Culture

Tirak, Lita. "Radiant Exposure: The Art and Spectacle of the X-Rayed Body in American Art visual Culture." (P 2016).

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