New Titles in American Studies

Slave breeding [electronic resource] : sex, violence, and memory in     African American history / Gregory D. Smithers.
                         
Conversations across our America [electronic resource] : talking about     immigration and the Latinoization of the United States / by Louis G.     Mendoza.
                             

The new Black politician [electronic resource] : Cory Booker, Newark, and    post-racial America / Andra Gillespie.
                         
Juvenile arrest in America [electronic resource] : race, social class, and     gang membership / Mike Tapia.
                            
Obama and the biracial factor [electronic resource] : the battle for a new American majority / edited by Andrew J. Jolivette.
                               
The bully society [electronic resource] : school shootings and the crisis of bullying in America's schools / Jessie Klein.
                            

Opposing Jim Crow [electronic resource] : African Americans and the Soviet indictment of U.S. racism, 1928 - 1937 / Meredith L. Roman.
                               
America at the mall [electronic resource] : the cultural role of a retail utopia / Lisa Scharoun.
              
Super-history [electronic resource] : comic book superheroes and American society, 1938 to the present / Jeffrey K. Johnson.
                                           
Teens, TV and tunes [electronic resource] : the manufacturing of American adolescent culture / Doyle Greene.                             

New Titles in American Studies

The condemnation of blackness [electronic resource] : race, crime, and the     making of modern urban America / Khalil Gibran Muhammad.

Coming of age in America [electronic resource] : the transition to     adulthood in the twenty-first century / edited by Mary C. Waters ... [et
al.].

Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America [electronic     resource] : from northern woman to plantation mistress / by Rebecca
Fraser, Director of Postgraduate Research, School of American Studies,
University of East Anglia, UK.
                          
The paradox of gender equality [electronic resource] : how American women's groups gained and lost their public voice / Kristin A. Goss.
                            
The American founding [electronic resource] : its intellectual and moral framework / edited by Daniel N. Robinson and Richard N. Williams.
                           
The servant economy [electronic resource] : where America's elite is sending the middle class / Jeff Faux.
                              
Religious rhetoric and American politics [electronic resource] : the endurance of civil religion in electoral campaigns / Christopher B. Chapp.
                             
Nightmare alley [electronic resource] : film noir and the American dream / Mark Osteen.
                             
The politics of disenfranchisement : why is it so hard to vote in America? / Richard K. Scher.

Challengers to duopoly [electronic resource] : why third parties matter in American two-party politics / J. David Gillespie.                         

New Titles in American Studies

American literature and culture in an age of Cold War [electronic resource] : a critical reassessment / edited by Steven Belletto and Daniel Grausam.

Blacks and Whites in Christian America [electronic resource] : how racial discrimination shapes religious convictions / Jason E. Shelton and Michael O. Emerson.
                        
The city that became safe [electronic resource] : New York's lessons for urban crime and its control / Franklin E. Zimring

Sex and manifest destiny [electronic resource] : the urge that drove Americans westward / Martin Naparsteck.

New Titles in American Studies

The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs ; with a new
introduction by Jason Epstein and a foreword by the author.

They left great marks on me [electronic resource] : African American
testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to World War I / Kidada
E. Williams.



The wrong complexion for protection [electronic resource] : how the
government response to disaster endangers African American communities /
Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright.


Sustaining faith traditions [electronic resource] : race, ethnicity, and religion among the Latino and Asian American second generation / edited by Carolyn Chen and Russell Jeung.

Barrios to burbs [electronic resource] : the making of the Mexican American middle class / Jody Agius Vallejo.



American religious liberalism [electronic resource] / edited by Leigh E. Schmidt and Sally M. Promey.

The slumbering masses : sleep, medicine, and modern American life / Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer.           

New Titles in American Studies

High school prom [electronic resource] : marketing, morals, and the American teen / Ann Anderson.

Still connected [electronic resource] : family and friends in America since 1970 / Claude S. Fischer.

Nation of cowards [electronic resource] : black activism in Barack Obama's     post-racial America / David Ikard and Martell Teasley.

Awakening to race [electronic resource] : individualism and social consciousness in America / Jack Turner.

New Materials in American Studies

Making camp : rhetorics of transgression in U.S. popular culture / Helene
A. Shugart and Catherine Egley Waggoner.

Sustainability in America's cities [electronic resource] : creating the green metropolis / edited by Matthew I. Slavin.

Help me to find my people : the African American search for family lost in
slavery / Heather Andrea Williams.

The Obamians : the struggle inside the White House to redefine American
power / James Mann.

American dreamers : how the left changed a nation / Michael Kazin.

New Titles in American Studies

Race in the age of Obama [electronic resource] / edited by Donald
Cunnigen, Marino A. Bruce.

Children of the changing South [electronic resource] : accounts of growing
up during and after integration / edited by Foster Dickson ; afterword by
David Molina.

After Freedom Summer [electronic resource] : how race realigned
Mississippi politics, 1965-1986 / Chris Danielson.

Small, gritty, and green [electronic resource] : the promise of America's
smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world / Catherine Tumber.

New Materials in American Studies

Countercultural conservatives : American evangelicalism from the postwar
revival to the New Christian Right / Axel R. Sch*afer.

Prophetic encounters : religion and the American radical tradition / Dan McKanan.

Becoming American? : the forging of Arab and Muslim identity in pluralist
America / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad.

Sustaining southern identity [electronic resource] : Douglas Southall
Freeman and memory in the modern South / Keith D. Dickson.

Beyond our means [electronic resource] : why America spends while the
world saves / Sheldon Garon.

Views from the dark side of American history [electronic resource] / Michael Fellman.

New Materials in American Studies

Encyclopedia of right-wing extremism in modern American history
[electronic resource] / Stephen E. Atkins.

Righteous violence [electronic resource] : revolution, slavery, and the
American renaissance / Larry J. Reynolds.

Opting out [electronic resource] : losing the potential of America's young
black elite / Maya A. Beasley.

The Confederate heartland [electronic resource] : military and civilian
morale in the western Confederacy / Bradley R. Clampitt.

Philanthropy in America [electronic resource] : a history / Olivier Zunz.

Jihadi terrorism and the radicalisation challenge [electronic resource] : European and American experiences / edited by Rik Coolsaet.

My southern home [electronic resource] ; or, the South and its people / by William Wells Brown ; edited and with an introduction by John Ernest.

Kentucky rising [electronic resource] : democracy, slavery, and culture from the early republic to the Civil War / James A. Ramage and Andrea S. Watkins.

Daisy petals and mushroom clouds [electronic resource] : LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the ad that changed American politics / Robert Mann.

Why America failed [electronic resource] : the roots of imperial decline / Morris Berman.

New Titles in American Studies

Supernatural America [electronic resource] : a cultural history / Lawrence R. Samuel.

The submerged state [electronic resource] : how invisible government policies undermine American democracy / Suzanne Mettler.

The accidental slaveowner [electronic resource] : revisiting a myth of
race and finding an American family / Mark Auslander.

Hatred at home [electronic resource] : Al-Qaida on trial in the American
Midwest / Andrew Welsh-Huggins.

The price of civilization : reawakening American virtue and prosperity /
Jeffrey D. Sachs.

Fighting for America [electronic resource] : the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871 / Jeremy Black.

Freedom of choice [electronic resource] : vouchers in American education / Jim Carl.

New Materials in American Studies

Black Yanks in the Pacific [electronic resource] : race in the making of
American military empire after World War II / Michael Cullen Green.

Of herds and hermits [electronic resource] : America's lone wolves and
submissive sheep, or, The American intellectual as loner and outcast /
Terry Reed.

The making of the American dream [electronic resource] : an unconventional history of the United States from 1607 to 1900. Volume I, The making of a republic / Lewis E. Kaplan.

The turkey and the eagle [electronic resource] : the struggle for
America's global role / Caleb Stewart Rossiter.

Faces of America [electronic resource] : how 12 extraordinary people discovered their pasts / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Thinking America [electronic resource] : New England intellectuals and the varieties of American identity / Andrew Taylor.

Lincoln's way [electronic resource] : how six great Presidents created American power / Richard Striner.

From melting pot to witch's cauldron [electronic resource] : how multiculturalism failed America / Ernesto Caravantes.

Fighting for America [electronic resource] : the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871 / Jeremy Black.

American idyll [electronic resource] : academic antielitism as cultural critique / Catherine Liu.

New Materials in American Studies

Class, race, gender, and crime [electronic resource] : the social realities of justice in America / Gregg Barak, Paul Leighton, and Jeanne Flavin.

Prominent Dutch American entrepreneurs [electronic resource] : their
contributions to American society, culture and economy / C. Carl Pegels.

Breaks in the chain [electronic resource] : what immigrant workers can
teach America about democracy / Paul Apostolidis.

The enemy in our hands [electronic resource] : America's treatment of
enemy prisoners of war, from the Revolution to the War on Terror / Robert C. Doyle.

One nation under siege [electronic resource] : Congress, terrorism, and the fate of American democracy / Jocelyn Jones Evans.

The dilemmas of American conservatism [electronic resource] / edited by Kenneth L. Deutsch and Ethan Fishman.

The Wire [electronic resource] : urban decay and American television / edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall.

Secret identity crisis [electronic resource] : comic books and the unmasking of Cold War America / Matthew J. Costello.

The two faces of American freedom [electronic resource] / Aziz Rana.

An elusive unity [electronic resource] : urban democracy and machine politics in industrializing America / James J. Connolly.

New Materials in American Studies

God and country [electronic resource] : America in red and blue / Sheila
Kennedy.

West from Appomattox [electronic resource] : the reconstruction of America after the Civil War / Heather Cox Richardson.

You must be from the North [electronic resource] : Southern white women in
the Memphis civil rights movement / Kimberly K. Little.

For the freedom of her race [electronic resource] : Black women and
electoral politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 / Lisa G. Materson.

African American civil rights [electronic resource] : early activism and the Niagara movement / Angela Jones.

American religion [electronic resource] : contemporary trends / Mark Chaves.

Still a house divided [electronic resource] : race and politics in Obama's America / Desmond S. King & Rogers M. Smith.

New Materials in American Studies

The making of John Ledyard [electronic resource] : empire and ambition in
the life of an early American traveler / Edward G. Gray.

Spiritual radical [electronic resource] : Abraham Joshua Heschel in
America, 1940-1972 / Edward K. Kaplan.

Taming democracy [electronic resource] : "the people," the founders, and
the troubled ending of the American Revolution / Terry Bouton.

The American presidency [electronic resource] : a very short introduction
/ Charles O. Jones.

Faith in the halls of power [electronic resource] : how evangelicals joined the American elite / D. Michael Lindsay.

Manifest destinies [electronic resource] : the making of the Mexican American race / Laura E. G*omez.

Culture shock and Japanese-American relations [electronic resource] : historical essays / Sadao Asada.

Science talk [electronic resource] : changing notions of science in American popular culture / Daniel Patrick Thurs.

Jewish American chronology [electronic resource] : chronologies of the American mosaic.

Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film [electronic resource] / Ana M. Manzanas and Jes*us Benito.

New Titles for American Studies

Almost a miracle [electronic resource] : the American victory in the War of Independence / John Ferling.

American wilderness [electronic resource] : a new history / edited by Michael Lewis.

Arbitrary justice [electronic resource] : the power of the American prosecutor / Angela J. Davis.

Open secrets of American foreign policy [electronic resource] / Gordon Tullock.

Newark [electronic resource] : a history of race, rights, and riots in America / Kevin Mumford.

Once you go Black [electronic resource] : choice, desire, and the Black American intellectual / Robert Reid-Pharr.

Long before Stonewall [electronic resource] : histories of same-sex sexuality in early America / edited by Thomas A. Foster ; with an afterword by John D'Emilio.

Children at play [electronic resource] : an American history / Howard P. Chudacoff.

The Puritan origins of American patriotism [electronic resource] / George McKenna.

New titles in American Studies

Habits of empire : a history of American expansion by Walter T.K. Nugent

Do museums still need objects? by Steven Conn

Walter White : the dilemma of Black identity in America by Tom Dyja

National solutions to trans-border problems? [electronic resource] : the
governance of security and risk in a post-NAFTA North America / [edited]
by Isidro Morales.

Topsy-turvy : how the Civil War turned the world upside down for southern children by Anya Jabour

New Electronic Resource: Archives Unbound

Archives Unbound is a digital collection of historical documents.
The library has purchased the following collections:


Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
The American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
The Vatican and the Holocaust 1940-1945
Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers' Project
American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters 1833-1893
The War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
Global Missions and Theology

New titles in American Studies

Dust devil by Anne Isaacs

Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin A. Ramsey

Sit-in : how four friends stood up by sitting down by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Nothing less than war [electronic resource] : a new history of America's entry into World War I by Justus D. Doenecke

New titles in American Studies

Migration, public opinion and politics: the Transatlantic Council on Migration by Bertelsmann Stiftung

Empire for liberty: a history of American imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz by Richard H. Immerman

Shoulder to shoulder: forging a strategic U.S.-E.U. partnership by Daniel S. Hamilton

A people's history of poverty in America by Stephen Pimpare

These days of large things [electronic resource]: the culture of size in America, 1865-1930 by Michael Tavel Clarke

Institutional change in American politics [electronic resource] : the case of term limits ed. by Karl T. Kurtz, et al.

New titles in American Studies

Migrant sites: America, place, and diaspora literatures by Dalia Kandiyoti

Contours of white ethnicity: popular ethnography and the making of usable pasts in Greek America by Yiorgos Anagnostou

Moving the rock: poverty and faith in a Black storefront church by Mary Elyeen Abrums

Never to leave us alone: the prayer life of Martin Luther King, Jr by Lewis V. Baldwin