Select Faculty Publications

Sven Beckert, Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (2001)
Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theatre (University of Michigan Press, 2006)<em>Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights</em> (New York University Press, 2011) Robin Bernstein, Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theatre (University of Michigan Press, 2006); Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (New York University Press, 2011)
American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting (W.W. Norton, 2005) Steven Biel, American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting (W.W. Norton, 2005)
Lisa Brooks, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (University of Minnesota Press 2008); co-author, Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (2008)

Lawrence Buell, Emerson (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003); The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (Blackwell, 2005).

Glenda Carpio, Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (Oxford, 2008)
Joyce E. Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (Harvard University Press, 2001); The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (Basic Books, 2006).
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1929-1939 (Cambridge, 1990); A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Knopf, 2003)
Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2000)
 
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Africana: the Encyclopedia of African and African American Experience, Editor with K. Anthony Appiah (Basic Civitas, 1999); America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans (Warner Books, 2004); Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own (Crown Publishers, 2007).
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1882-1920 (Cambridge, 1993)
Mortin Horwitz, The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice (Hill and Wang, 1998)
Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Basic Books, 2000)
James Kloppenberg, The Virtues of Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Ingrid Monson, Saying Something, Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (University of Chicago, 1996); Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (Oxford, 2007).
Carol Oja, Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Jennifer Roberts, Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History (Yale University Press, 2004)
Julie Reuben, The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality (University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Doris Sommer, Proceed with Caution: When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas (Cambridge, 1999)
 
Werner Sollors, The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature (New York University Press, 2000); Ethnic Modernism (Harvard, 2008); A New Literary History of America (Harvard, 2009), edited with Griel Marcus.
John Stauffer, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Tranformation of Race (Harvard University Press, 2001); Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln (Twelve, 2008); The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy (Doubleday, 2009), with Sally Jenkins.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: the Life of Martha Ballard (Knopf, 1990); The Age of Homespun (Knopf, 2001).

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