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American Studies

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Jackie Ormes

The First African American Woman Cartoonist

By Nancy Goldstein
Subjects: Biography, African American Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art

Now in paperback—the biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created

Ellen Stewart Presents

Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre

By Cindy Rosenthal
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, American Studies, African American Studies, Biography

A stunning visual chronicle of New York’s iconic performance venue

 

Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption

By E. Wayne Carp
Subjects: History, American History, Psychology, Literary Studies, American Literature, Biography, American Studies, Sociology

One woman’s tireless crusade for better understanding and social justice for adopted people

Living the Faith

A Life of Tom Monaghan

By James Leonard
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, American Studies, Biography

A balanced biography of one of America's most fascinating and controversial business and religious figures

Music Is My Life

Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz

By Daniel Stein
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Media Studies, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong’s autobiographical practices

The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey

Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Arts

By John G Pedley
Subjects: American Studies, Archaeology, Biography, Classical Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes

If Indiana Jones had relied on trains . . .

Olof the Eskimo Lady

A Biography of an Icelandic Dwarf in America

By Inga Dora Bjornsdottir
Translated by Maria Helga Gudmundsdottir
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Biography, American Studies

The story of an Icelandic dwarf who made a living in 19th-century America posing as an Eskimo

Asian American X

An Intersection of Twenty-First Century Asian American Voices

Edited by Arar Han & John Hsu
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Education

Original writings address the struggles of young Asian Americans to define their identities while growing up in the United States

Lennie Tristano

His Life in Music

By Eunmi Shim
Subjects: Music, Jazz, American Studies, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The first biography of one of the most influential but unheralded musicians in jazz history

Cast Out

Queer Lives in Theater

Edited by Robin Bernstein
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Memoir, Biography
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Memoirs that explore the intertwined connections between theater and queer culture, sexuality, and history

American Prophet

The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams

By Peter Richardson
Subjects: Biography, American Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, History, American History

American Prophet is the long-overdue biography on the brilliant life and career of a great American thinker and writer—Carey McWilliams

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