HIST 730: Seminar in American History

The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses many aspects of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field.

Includes chronology, introductory essay, appendixes, extensive bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced entries on forms of slavery, famous slaves and abolitionists, sources of slaves, and current conditions of modern slavery around the world.

This volume assembles the keywords of this field for the first time, exploring not only the history of those categories but their continued relevance in the contemporary moment. Taking up a vast array of issues such as slavery, colonialism, prison expansion, sexuality, gender, feminism, war, and popular culture, Keywords for African American Studies showcases the startling breadth that characterizes the field.

A resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies with meditations on new and developing concepts used in American studies, cultural studies, and beyond.

With over 450 articles by expert scholars, each signed entry features numerous cross references and discussion of social history as well as additional sources for further study in this two-volume A-to-Z compendium. It also features key biographies of leaders in social history, a topical outline, and subject index.

Covers colonial times through the present, rural vs. urban queer histories, gender and sexual diversity in early American history, intersectionality, exploring queerness in association with issues of race and class, queerness and American capitalism, the rise of queer histories, archives, and collective memory, transnationalism and queer history.

Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states.

This set provides insight into the lives of ordinary Americans free and enslaved, in farms and cities, in the North and the South, who lived during the years of 1815 to 1860.