Books by Fellows

Since the inception of the AAS fellowship program in 1972, fellows have written over five hundred books based on research conducted at AAS. Below is an illustrated directory of these books. Books may be sorted by author's last name, title, date, subject, and fellowship. Many public programs featuring fellows discussing their books have also been recorded and made available to view online.

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The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America, by Gretchen Adams

Gretchen Adams

Peterson Fellow, 2000-1

The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America

(Cambridge University Press, 2008)

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Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789 by Joseph Adelman

Joseph Adelman

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2011-12

Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789

(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)

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A Republic of Mind by Catherine Albanese

Catherine Albanese

Haven Fellow, 1983-84

A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion

(Yale University Press, 2007)

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Gaylord Albaugh

U.S. Steel Foundation Fellow, 1972-73

History and Annotated Bibliography of American Religious Periodicals and Newspapers Established from 1730 through 1830

(American Antiquarian Society, 1994)

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Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government by Catherine Allgor

Catherine Allgor

Peterson Fellow, 1995-96

Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government

(University Press of Virginia, 2000)

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The Medical Imagination by Sari Altschuler

Sari Altschuler

Hench Fellow, 2013-14

The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

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Mahogany by Jennifer Anderson

Jennifer Anderson

Hench Fellow, 2006-7

Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America

(Harvard University Press, 2012)

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Book cover for Native Apostles

Edward E. Andrews

Peterson Fellow, 2007-8

Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World

(Harvard University Press, 2013)

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Book cover for Portrait of a Woman in Silk

Zara Anishanslin

Last Fellow, 2013-14

Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World

(Yale University Press, 2016)

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Paper Money Men

David Anthony

NEMLA Fellow, 2000-1

Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America

(Ohio State University Press, 2009)

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Book cover Genius of Place

Christopher Apap

Peterson Fellow, 2012-13

The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic

(University of New Hampshire Press, 2016)

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Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby

Joyce Appleby

ASECS Fellow, 1994-95

Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans

(Harvard University Press, 2000)

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Book cover image of The Suicide's Son by James Arthur

James Arthur

Last Fellow, 2018

The Suicide's Son

(Signal Editions, 2019)

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Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America by William Astore

William Astore

Research Associate, 1994-95

Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America

(Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2001)

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Clerk's Tale book cover

Thomas Augst

Reese Fellow, 1999-00

The Clerk’s Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America

(University of Chicago Press, 2003)

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Book cover for Behold the Child

Gillian Avery

Peterson Fellow, 1985-86

Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621–1922

(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)

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