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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book cover for The Republic Afloat

Matthew Raffety

Sigety Fellow, 2001-02

The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America

(University of Chicago Press, 2013)

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The Politics of Long Division: The Birth of the Second Party System in Ohio, 1818-1828 by Donald Ratcliffe

Donald Ratcliffe

Haven Fellow, 1983-84

The Politics of Long Division: The Birth of the Second Party System in Ohio, 1818-1828

(Ohio State University Press, 2000)

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How Early America Sounded by Richard Cullen Rath

Richard Cullen Rath

Peterson Fellow, 1997-98

How Early America Sounded

(Cornell University Press, 2003)

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London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811 by James Raven

James Raven

Peterson Fellow, 1994-95

London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811

(University of South Carolina Press, 2002)

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book cover for George Washington, An American Icon

Wendy Wick Reaves

Daniels Fellow, 1976-77

George Washington, An American Icon: The Eighteenth-Century Graphic Portraits

(Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1982)

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Rogue Performances: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture by Peter Reed

Peter Reed

NEMLA Fellow, 2007-8

Rogue Performances: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

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book cover for Manufacturing Advantage

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Peterson Fellow, 2014-15

Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776-1848

(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)

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Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Benjamin Reiss

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2001-02

Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture

(University of Chicago Press, 2008)

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Book cover for Printers and Men of Capital

Rosalind Remer

Peterson Fellow, 1988-89

Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996)

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Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic by John Resch

John Resch

Research Associate, 1987-88

Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic

(University of Massachusetts Press, 2000)

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Beneath the American Renaissance by David Reynolds

David Reynolds

AAS-NEH Fellow, 1982-83

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

(Alfred A. Knopf, 1988)

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London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 by Joseph Rezek

Joseph Rezek

Botein Fellow, 2015-16

London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

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The Transformation of Authorship in America by Grantland Rice

Grantland Rice

Botein Fellow, 1993-94

The Transformation of Authorship in America

(University of Chicago Press, 1997)

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Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America by Stephen Rice

Stephen Rice

Peterson Fellow, 1995-96

Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America

(University of California Press, 2004)

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Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle by Eliza Richards

Eliza Richards

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2002-3

Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle

(Cambridge University Press, 2004)

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Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America by Daniel Ritcher

Daniel Richter

Daniels Fellow, 1981-82

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America

(Harvard University Press, 2001)

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book cover for The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania: A Varied People

Judith Ridner

Last Fellow, 2017-18

The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania: A Varied People

(Temple University Press, 2018)

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Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and its legacy in the Mid-Atlantic by Liam Riordan

Liam Riordan

Tracy Fellow, 1999-00

Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)

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American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture by Brian Roberts

Brian Roberts

AAS-NEH Fellow, 1998-99

American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture

(University of North Carolina Press, 2000)

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Evangelical Gotham by Kyle Roberts

Kyle Roberts

Hench Fellow, 2007-8

Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860

(University of Chicago Press, 2016)

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Awakening Verse by Wendy Roberts

Wendy Roberts

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2015-16

Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism

(Oxford University Press, 2020)

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Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest by Stacey Robertson

Stacey Robertson

Tracy Fellow, 2007-8

Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest

(University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

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Blue Colonial by David Roderick

David Roderick

Baron Fellow, 2003

Blue Colonial

(Copper Canyon Press, 2006)

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Book cover for Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers

A. G. Roeber

AAS-NEH Fellow, 1978-79

Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810

(University of North Carolina Press, 1981)

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Bookcover for Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery

Daniel Rood

Hench Fellow, 2010-11

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean

(Oxford University Press, 2020)

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book cover for Accounting for Slavery

Caitlin Rosenthal

Botein Fellow, 2010-11

Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management

(Harvard University Press, 2018)

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book cover for The Democratic Dilemma

Randolph Roth

Daniels Fellow, 1981-82

The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social Order in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, 1791–1850

(Cambridge University Press, 1987)

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book cover for Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture

Sarah N. Roth

Drawn to Art Fellow, 2000-01

Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture

(Cambridge University Press, 2016)

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Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson by Joshua Rothman

Joshua Rothman

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2005-6

Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson

(University of Georgia Press, 2012)

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book cover for Empire's Nursery

Brian Rouleau

Schiller Fellow, 2014-15

Empire's Nursery: Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century

(New York University Press, 2021)

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Eclipse of Empires: World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture by Patricia Jane Roylance

Patricia Jane Roylance

Last Fellow, 2008-9

Eclipse of Empires: World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

(University of Alabama Press, 2013)

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Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems by Margaret Rozga

Margaret Rozga

Baron Fellow, 2014

Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems

(Lit Fest Press, 2017)

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The Muse of the Revolution by Nancy Rubin Stuart

Nancy Rubin Stuart

Hearst Fellow, 2005

The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

(Beacon Press, 2008)

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book cover for A Paradise of Reason

James Rixey Ruffin

Peterson Fellow, 1998-99

A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic

(Oxford University Press, 2008)

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book cover for The Problem of Emancipation

Edward Bartlett Rugemer

Tracy Fellow, 2006-7

The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War

(Louisiana State University Press, 2009)

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book cover for Fugitive Science

Britt Rusert

Peterson Fellow, 2011-12

Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

(New York University Press, 2017)

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book cover for A Refuge of Cure or Care

Madeline Kearin Ryan

Peterson Fellow, 2018-19

A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane

(Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

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The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence by Susan Ryan

Susan Ryan

Peterson Fellow, 1997-98

The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence

(Cornell University Press, 2003)

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