Can "American studies" develop a method? / Henry Nash Smith; commentary, Lawrence Buell
History and the American intellectual : uses of a usable past / Warren I. Susman; commentary, Michael Frisch
Cult of true womanhood : 1820-1860 / Barbara Welter; commentary, Mary Kelley
Myth and symbol in American studies / Bruce Kuklick; commentary, Howard P. Segal
Literature and the historian / R. Gordon Kelly; commentary, Sharon O'Brien
Blackface minstrelsy and Jacksonian ideology / Alexander Saxton; commentary, Eric Lott
Republican mother : women and the Enlightenment, an American perspective / Linda Kerber; commentary, Ruth Bloch
"Paradigm dramas" in American studies : a cultural and institutional history of the movement / Gene Wise; commentary, Jay Mechling
Melodramas of beset manhood : how theories of American fiction exclude women authors / Nina Baym; commentary, Maragaret McFadden
Utopian impulse in popular literature : Gothic romances and "feminist" protest / Janice Radway; commentary, Christopher P. Wilson
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Houston A. Baker, Jr.; commentary, Robert B. Stepto
New context for a new American studies? / Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr.; commentary, Barry Shank
Listening to learn and learning to listen : popular culture, cultural theory, and American studies / George Lipsitz; commentary, Amy Kaplan
Cultural locations : positioning American studies in the great debate / Alice Kessler-Harris; commentary, Cathy Davidson
Community, patriarchy, and individualism : the politics of Chicano history and the dream of equality / Ramón Gutiérrez; commentary, Vicki L. Ruiz
Homosex changes : race, cultural geography, and the emergence of the gay / Kevin J. Mumford; commentary, Robert K. Martin
Transformation of culture : three Chinese views of America / K. Scott Wong; commentary, Gary Y. Okihiro.