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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Recorded Public Programs

Follow the links below to view the public programs, webinars, and virtual book talks featuring fellows discussing their books.

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home by Richard Bell

Richard Bell

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2007-2008

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

(Simon & Schuster, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 Public Program

Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment

Wendy Bellion

Last Fellow, 2011-12

Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment

(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019)

AAS Catalog Record

2021 CHAViC Webinar

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David Blight

David Blight

Peterson Fellow, 1996-97

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

(Harvard University Press, 2000)

AAS Catalog Record

2012 Public Program

Patriotism By Proxy, by Colleen Boggs

Colleen Boggs

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2015-16

Patriotism By Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863-1865

(Oxford University Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

2021 Public Program

The Movement of the Stars by Amy Brill

Amy Brill

Baron Fellow, 2005

The Movement of the Stars: A Novel

(Riverhead Books, 2013)

AAS Catalog Record

Artists in the Archive page

2013 Public Program

Book cover

Tara Bynum

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2016-17

Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America

(University of Illinois Press, 2023)

2023 Public Program

Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon by Scott Casper

Scott Casper

Peterson Fellow, 1998-99

Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine

(Hill and Wang, 2008)

AAS Catalog Record

2008 Public Program

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History book cover

Juliana Chow

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2017-18

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History

(Cambridge University Press, 2021)

AAS Catalog Record

2022 Public Program

American Harmony: Inspired Choral Miniatures from New England, Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and the Midwest by Nym Cooke

Nym Cooke

AAS-NEH Fellow, 1992-93

American Harmony: Inspired Choral Miniatures from New England, Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and the Midwest

(David Godine, 2018)

AAS Catalog Record

2018 Public Program

Book cover of The Afflicted Girls by Nicole Cooley

Nicole Cooley

Wallace Fellow, 1999

The Afflicted Girls

(Louisiana State University Press, 2004)

AAS Catalog Record

Artists in the Archive page

2015 Public Program

Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America by Patricia Crain

Patricia Crain

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2005-6

Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

AAS Catalog Record

2016 Public Program

Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast by Christine DeLucia

Christine DeLucia

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2015-16

Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

(Yale University Press, 2018)

AAS Catalog Record

2018 Public Program

A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon by Krista Elrick

Krista Elrick

Last Fellow, 2016

A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon

(George F. Thompson Publishing, 2021)

AAS Catalog Record

Artists in the Archive page

2021 Public Program

Book cover for Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding

Hannah Farber

Peterson Fellow, 2011-12

Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding

(University of North Carolina Press, 2021)

AAS Catalog Record

2022 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

Book cover for Relative Races

Brigitte Fielder

Last Fellow, 2011-12

Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-century America

(Duke University Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

Gordon Fraser

Reese Fellow, 2018-19

Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

AAS Catalog Record

2021 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

Island of the Innocent by Diane Glancy

Diane Glancy

Baron Fellow, 2020

Island of the Innocent: A Consideration on the Book of Job

(Turtle Point Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

Artists in the Archive page

2020 Public Program

Book cover for Useful Objects

Reed Gochberg

Packer Fellow, 2016-17

Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America

(Oxford University Press, 2021)

AAS Catalog Record

2022 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century by Aston Gonzalez

Aston Gonzalez

Last Fellow, 2011-12

Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

(University of North Carolina Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

2021 CHAViC Webinar

Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic by Glenda Goodman

Glenda Goodman

Peterson Fellow, 2010-11

Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic

(Oxford University Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites by Adam Gordon

Adam Gordon

Hench Fellow, 2011-12

Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic

(University of Massachusetts Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

Book cover for The Transcendentalists and Their World

Robert A. Gross

2002-3

The Transcendentalists and Their World

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2021)

AAS Catalog Record

2022 Public Program

The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Baron Fellow, 2009

The Age of Phillis

(Wesleyan University Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

Artists in the Archive page

2020 Public Program

Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement by Allison Lange

Allison Lange

AHPCS Fellow, 2011-12

Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement

(University of Chicago Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 Public Program

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore

Peterson Fellow, 1993-94

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

(Vintage, 1999)

AAS Catalog Record

1998 Public Program

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Margaretta Lovell

2007-08

Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America

(Penn State University Press, 2023)

2023 Public Program

The Province of Affliction book cover

Ben Mutschler

Peterson Fellow, 1996-97

The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England

(University of Chicago Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 Public Program

Beheld by TaraShea Nesbit

TaraShea Nesbit

Baron Fellow, 2018

Beheld

(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 Public Program

Founding Mothers & Fathers by Mary Beth Norton

Mary Beth Norton

Peterson Fellow, 1984-85

Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

(Penguin Random House, 1996)

AAS Catalog Record

2018 Baron Lecture

book cover for Green Green Green

Gillian Osborne

Packer Fellow, 2015-16

Green Green Green

(Nightboat Books, 2021)

2022 Public Program

The City-State of Boston by Mark Peterson

Mark Peterson

Burkhardt Fellow, 2003-4

The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865

(Princeton University Press, 2019)

AAS Catalog Record

2019 Public Program

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)

AAS Catalog Record

2008 Public Program

Bookcover for American Mirror

Roberto Saba

Hench Fellow, 2017-18

American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation

(Princeton University Press, 2021)

AAS Catalog Record

2022 Public Program

The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Jonathan Senchyne

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2013-14

The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

(University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha

Manisha Sinha

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2004-5

The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

(Yale University Press, 2016)

AAS Catalog Record

2017 Public Program

Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright by Will Slauter

Will Slauter

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2014-15

Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright

(Stanford University Press, 2019)

AAS Catalog Record

2019 Public Program

Book cover for Practice of Citizenship

Derrick Spires

Peterson Fellow, 2008-9

The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor

AAS-NEH Fellow, 1989-90

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

(Alfred A. Knopf, 1995)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 Public Program

The Forage House by Tess Taylor

Tess Taylor

Baron Fellow, 2006

The Forage House

(Red Hen Press, 2013)

AAS Catalog Record

Artists in the Archive page

2014 Public Program

Book cover

Kathryn Walkiewicz

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2021-22

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State

(University of North Carolina Press, 2023)

AAS Catalog Record

2023 Public Program

book cover for Circus and the City: New York 1793- 2010

Matthew Wittmann

Peterson Fellow, 2005-6

Circus and the City: New York 1793- 2010

(Yale University Press, 2012)

AAS Catalog Record

2022 CHAViC Webinar

Book cover for Black Girlhood

Nazera Sadiq Wright

Ford Fellow, 2013-14

Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century

(University of Illinois Press, 2016)

AAS Catalog Record

2019 Public Program

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