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The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies (American Culture Studies)

The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies (American Culture Studies)

The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies (American Culture Studies)

By: Heike Paul

Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (Paperback)

Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (Paperback)

Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (Paperback)

By: Kenneth E. Foote

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Paperback)

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Paperback)

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Paperback)

By: Thomas J. Sugrue

American Empire: A Global History (America in the World)

American Empire: A Global History (America in the World)

American Empire: A Global History (America in the World)

By: A.G. Hopkins

The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (Hardcover)

The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (Hardcover)

The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (Hardcover)

By: Adam H. Domby

Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland (Hardcover)

Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland (Hardcover)

Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland (Hardcover)

By: Geraldo L. Cadava

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Hardcover)

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Hardcover)

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Hardcover)

By: Sherry Turkle

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (Hardcover)

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (Hardcover)

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (Hardcover)

By: Alice Echols

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)

By: Henry Jenkins

Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (Paperback)

Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (Paperback)

Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (Paperback)

By: Lynn Spigel

Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago (Paperback)

Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago (Paperback)

Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago (Paperback)

By: Colin Fisher

Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Politics and Society in Modern America)

Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Politics and Society in Modern America)

Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Politics and Society in Modern America)

By: Todd Andrew Needham

Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago (Paperback)

Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago (Paperback)

Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago (Paperback)

By: Laurence Ralph

A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America)

A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America)

A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America)

By: Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly

The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City (A Quadrant Book)

The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City (A Quadrant Book)

The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City (A Quadrant Book)

By: Eric Avila

The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (Paperback)

The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (Paperback)

The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (Paperback)

By: Wendy Cheng

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Hardcover)

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Hardcover)

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Hardcover)

By: Walter Johnson

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)

By: Edward E. Baptist

Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)

Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)

Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)

By: Dianne Harris

Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

By: Christopher W. Wells

Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Music / Culture)

Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Music / Culture)

Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Music / Culture)

By: Daniel Cavicchi

The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America (Hardcover)

The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America (Hardcover)

The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America (Hardcover)

By: Lawrence Culver

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (Paperback)

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (Paperback)

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (Paperback)

By: William R. Leach

Stories of Freedom in Black New York (Paperback)

Stories of Freedom in Black New York (Paperback)

Stories of Freedom in Black New York (Paperback)

By: Shane White

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (Paperback)

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (Paperback)

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (Paperback)

By: Patricia Nelson Limerick

Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town 1880-1960 (Statue of Liberty- Ellis Island Centennial Series)

Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town 1880-1960 (Statue of Liberty- Ellis Island Centennial Series)

Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town 1880-1960 (Statue of Liberty- Ellis Island Centennial Series)

By: José Alamillo

Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States)

Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States)

Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States)

By: Michael Oriard

Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

By: John F. Sears

Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England (Paperback)

Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England (Paperback)

Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England (Paperback)

By: Bruce C. Daniels

The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer (Paperback)

The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer (Paperback)

The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer (Paperback)

By: Daniel Thomas Cook

Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Paperback)

Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Paperback)

Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Paperback)

By: Elijah Wald

Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (Paperback)

Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (Paperback)

Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (Paperback)

By: Karen Halttunen

Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

By: Roy Rosenzweig

Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (Paperback)

Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (Paperback)

Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (Paperback)

By: Lary May

Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity (Paperback)

Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity (Paperback)

Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity (Paperback)

By: Ann Arnett Ferguson

California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place (Hardcover)

California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place (Hardcover)

California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place (Hardcover)

By: Phoebe S. Kropp

Lie Of The Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (Paperback)

Lie Of The Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (Paperback)

Lie Of The Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (Paperback)

By: Don Mitchell

The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West (Hardcover)

The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West (Hardcover)

The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West (Hardcover)

By: Frieda Knobloch

Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America (Paperback)

Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America (Paperback)

Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America (Paperback)

By: Jennifer Price

The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top (Paperback)

The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top (Paperback)

The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top (Paperback)

By: Janet M. Davis

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Paperback)

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Paperback)

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Paperback)

By: Kathy Peiss

The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday (Paperback)

The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday (Paperback)

The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday (Paperback)

By: Stephen Nissenbaum

Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860 (Paperback)

Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860 (Paperback)

Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860 (Paperback)

By: Michael Zakim

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)

By: Kenneth T. Jackson

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)

By: William Cronon

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Paperback)

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Paperback)

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Paperback)

By: Lizabeth Cohen

Listening in: Radio and the American Imagination (Paperback)

Listening in: Radio and the American Imagination (Paperback)

Listening in: Radio and the American Imagination (Paperback)

By: Susan J. Douglas

DUST BOWL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Paperback)

DUST BOWL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Paperback)

DUST BOWL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Paperback)

By: Donald Worster