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The American Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that provides a forum for intellectual debate about all aspects of social, cultural, and political life in the United States of America. It aims to present new and challenging research in the humanities to both academic and non-academic audiences around the world.
In general, ASJ articles are published under a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA license to enable the widest possible dissemination and reuse. However, in special cases the license conditions of the individual article may apply.
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(2020):"Introduction: Digital Pedagogy in American Studies." Digital Pedagogy in American Studies. Ed. Ingrid Gessner, Uwe Küchler. Special issue of American Studies Journal.70: 1.Journal Article
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(2020):"Leipzig’s Social Hypertext Reader SHRIMP and the “Introduction to American Studies”." Digital Pedagogy in American Studies. Ed. Ingrid Gessner, Uwe Küchler. Special issue of American Studies Journal.70: 2.Journal Article
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(2020):"The Digital Classroom: A Digital Humanities Primer on Tools, Methods, and Resources." Digital Pedagogy in American Studies. Ed. Ingrid Gessner, Uwe Küchler. Special issue of American Studies Journal.70: 3.Journal Article
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(2020):"Flipped Classrooms and the Pitfalls of Digital Learning." Digital Pedagogy in American Studies. Ed. Ingrid Gessner, Uwe Küchler. Special issue of American Studies Journal.70: 4.Journal Article
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(2020):"Teaching the Black Power Movement, the Genre of Documentary Film and Critical Media Literacy." Digital Pedagogy in American Studies. Ed. Ingrid Gessner, Uwe Küchler. Special issue of American Studies Journal.70: 5.Journal Article
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(2020):"“I Think They Are Irresponsible”: Teaching Sustainability with (Counter)Narratives in the EFL Classroom." Digital Pedagogy in American Studies. Ed. Ingrid Gessner, Uwe Küchler. Special issue of American Studies Journal.70: 6.Journal Article
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(2020):"Uncovering Indigenous Worlds and Histories on a Bend of a New England River before the 1650s: Problematizing Nomenclature and Settler Colonial History, Deep History, and Early Colonization Narratives." Ed. Heike Paul, Martina Kohl, Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. American Studies Journal 69: 1.Journal Article
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(2020):"On Democracy of Digression: Chapter 30 of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick." Ed. Heike Paul, Martina Kohl, Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. American Studies Journal 69: 2.Journal Article
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(2020):"Entangled Encounters: The Transcultural Counterwitness and Implication in Claudia Rankine and John Lucas’s Situations." Ed. Heike Paul, Martina Kohl, Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. American Studies Journal 69: 3.Journal Article
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(2020):"Can the Undocumented Speak? Undocumented Immigrants and Self-Representation." Ed. Heike Paul, Martina Kohl, Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. American Studies Journal 69: 4.Journal Article
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(2020):"“Art Has a Bad (W)rap”: A Conversation with Michael Cullen about the “Wrapped Reichstag”." Ed. Heike Paul, Martina Kohl, Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. American Studies Journal 69: 5.Journal Article
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(2020):"Essay: The Mad Patriot." Ed. Heike Paul, Martina Kohl, Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. American Studies Journal 69: 6.Journal Article
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(2019):"Contributors’ Biographical Notes." Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective. Special issue of American Studies Journal 68: 10.Journal Article
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(2019):"Discussion Forum: Authors’ Responses." Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective. Ed. Sandrine Baudry, Guillaume Marche, Céline Planchou. Special issue of American Studies Journal 68: 9.Journal Article
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(2019):"France-Based Scholars Researching Minority Groups in the Field: A Symposium." Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective. Ed. Sandrine Baudry, Guillaume Marche, Céline Planchou. Special issue of American Studies Journal 68: 8.Journal Article
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(2019):"Conducting Sensitive Research as an Alien Ethnographer in the United States." Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective. Ed. Sandrine Baudry, Guillaume Marche, Céline Planchou. Special issue of American Studies Journal 68: 7.Journal Article
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(2019):"In and Beyond the Field: Researching Black Lives Matter from France." Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective. Ed. Sandrine Baudry, Guillaume Marche, Céline Planchou. Special issue of American Studies Journal 68: 6.Journal Article
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(2019):"Research in a Minefield: Relating with Tea Party Activists." Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective. Ed. Sandrine Baudry, Guillaume Marche, Céline Planchou. Special issue of American Studies Journal 68: 5.Journal Article
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(2019):"“The Moral Equivalent of Rosa Parks?” The New Christian Right’s Framing Strategy in the Latest Chapter of the Culture Wars." Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective. Ed. Sandrine Baudry, Guillaume Marche, Céline Planchou. Special issue of American Studies Journal 68: 4.Journal Article
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(2019):"Deconstructing and Reconstructing Woman Suffrage History: The Story of the Woman’s Party." Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective. Ed. Sandrine Baudry, Guillaume Marche, Céline Planchou. Special issue of American Studies Journal 68: 3.Journal Article
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(2019):"Why Study the Early American Women’s Rights Movement?" Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective. Ed. Sandrine Baudry, Guillaume Marche, Céline Planchou. Special issue of American Studies Journal 68: 2.Journal Article
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(2019):"Introduction." Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective. Ed. Sandrine Baudry, Guillaume Marche, Céline Planchou. Special issue of American Studies Journal 68: 1.Journal Article
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(2012):"Introduction." Transfrontera: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Special issue of American Studies Journal 57: 1.Journal Article
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(2015):"Commemorating the Port Chicago Naval Magazine Disaster of 1944: Remembering the Racial Injustices of the 'Good War' in Contemporary America." Commemorating World War II at 70: Ethnic and Transnational Perspectives. Ed. Birgit Däwes, Ingrid Gessner. Special issue of American Studies Journal 59: 6.Journal Article
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(2015):"Commemoration, Race, and World War II: History and Civil Rights at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site." Commemorating World War II at 70: Ethnic and Transnational Perspectives. Ed. Birgit Däwes, Ingrid Gessner. Special issue of American Studies Journal 59: 5.Journal Article
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(2015):"Transnational Debts: The Cultural Memory of Navajo Code Talkers in World War II." Commemorating World War II at 70: Ethnic and Transnational Perspectives. Ed. Birgit Däwes, Ingrid Gessner. Special issue of American Studies Journal 59: 4.Journal Article
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(2015):"Out of Germany': Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Jakubs World (2005), and the Commemoration of the Holocaust in the United States." American Studies Journal 59: 3.Journal Article
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(2015):"Keeping Time with the Good War." Commemorating World War II at 70: Ethnic and Transnational Perspectives. Ed. Birgit Däwes, Ingrid Gessner. Special issue of American Studies Journal 59: 2.Journal Article
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(2015):"Commemorating World War II at 70: Ethnic and Transnational Perspectives: An Introduction." Commemorating World War II at 70: Ethnic and Transnational Perspectives. Ed. Birgit Däwes, Ingrid Gessner. Special issue of American Studies Journal 59: 1.Journal Article
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(2019):"An Ecocritical Reading of Blood Meridian and Strange as This Weather Has Been." Ed. Carmen Birkle, Maria Moss. American Studies Journal 66: 6.Journal Article
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(2019):"Politics and Prophecy: Jordan Peterson’s Antidote to Modernity." Ed. Carmen Birkle, Maria Moss. American Studies Journal 66: 4.Journal Article
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(2019):"“Let the World Know You Are Alive”: May Alcott Nieriker and Louisa May Alcott Confront Nineteenth-Century Ideas about Women’s Genius." Ed. Carmen Birkle, Maria Moss. American Studies Journal 66: 3.Journal Article
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(2019):"The Comic Vision of Saul Alinsky’s Community Organizing Tradition." Ed. Carmen Birkle, Maria Moss. American Studies Journal 66: 5.Journal Article
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(2019):"Leveraging the Hero: Witnesses and Personal Stories as Persuasive Devices in Trump’s 2018 State of the Union Address." Ed. Carmen Birkle, Maria Moss. American Studies Journal 66: 2.Journal Article
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(2019):"Marrying Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: The Rising Voices of Dissent in American Environmentalism." Ed. Carmen Birkle, Maria Moss. American Studies Journal 66: 1.Journal Article
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(2018):"The Rise and Demise of American Unipolarism: Neoconservatism and US Foreign Policy 1989–2009." Cultures of US-American Conservatism. Ed. Susann Köhler, Andrew S. Gross. Special issue of American Studies Journal 65: 8.Journal Article
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(2018):"Afterword: Conservatism and the Liberal Tradition: Reflections on Peter Viereck." Cultures of US-American Conservatism. Ed. Susann Köhler, Andrew S. Gross. Special issue of American Studies Journal 65: 9.Journal Article
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(2018):"Antiacademism as Anticapitalism: The Rise of American Cultural Conservationism." Cultures of US-American Conservatism. Ed. Susann Köhler, Andrew S. Gross. Special issue of American Studies Journal 65: 6.Journal Article
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(2018):"Conservative Exorcisms: On William F. Buckley Jr.’s Anti-Liberal Crusade and the Demon of Atheism." Cultures of US-American Conservatism. Ed. Susann Köhler, Andrew S. Gross. Special issue of American Studies Journal 65: 5.Journal Article
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(2018):"Donald Trump, American Caesarism, and the Legacy of Leo Strauss." Cultures of US-American Conservatism. Ed. Susann Köhler, Andrew S. Gross. Special issue of American Studies Journal 65: 7.Journal Article
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(2018):"Reed Smoot’s Prayers and the ‘Mormon Moment’ of US-American Politics." Cultures of US-American Conservatism. Ed. Susann Köhler, Andrew S. Gross. Special issue of American Studies Journal 65: 4.Journal Article
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(2018):"Collapse or Triumph? The Modern American Conservative Movement at Sixty." Cultures of US-American Conservatism. Ed. Susann Köhler, Andrew S. Gross. Special issue of American Studies Journal 65: 2.Journal Article
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(2018):"The Rise of the Small Business Owner in Progressive Era Culture." Cultures of US-American Conservatism. Ed. Susann Köhler, Andrew S. Gross. Special issue of American Studies Journal 65: 3.Journal Article
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(2018):"Introduction to the Special Issue: Cultures of US-American Conservatism." Cultures of US-American Conservatism. Ed. Susann Köhler, Andrew S. Gross. Special issue of American Studies Journal 65: 1.Journal Article
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(2018):"The Politics of Sports and Protest: Colin Kaepernick and the Practice of Leadership." Ed. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Martina Kohl. American Studies Journal 64: 6.Journal Article
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(2018):"Nuclear Family Emotional System and Family Projection Process in Tennessee Williams’s Period of Adjustment." Ed. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Martina Kohl. American Studies Journal 64: 2.Journal Article
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(2018):"Martin Luther King, Jr. and America’s Fourth Revolution: The Poor People’s Campaign at Fifty." Ed. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Martina Kohl. American Studies Journal 64: 1.Journal Article
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(2018):"Stage Rights: Performing Masculinity in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921." Ed. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Martina Kohl. American Studies Journal 64: 4.Journal Article
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(2018):"Recycling as Creativity: An Environmental Approach to Twentieth-Century American Art." Ed. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Martina Kohl. American Studies Journal 64: 5.Journal Article
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(2018):"'I don’t know about you, but it all goes through my skin': War Trauma Writing by Lawrence Joseph." Ed. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Martina Kohl. American Studies Journal 64: 3.Journal Article