Studies in American Thought and Culture

Advisory Board: Charles H. Capper, Mary Kupiec Cayton, Lizabeth Cohen, Nan Enstad, James B. Gilbert, Karen Halttunen, Michael Kammen, James T. Kloppenberg, Colleen McDannell, Joan S. Rubin, P. Sterling Stuckey, and Robert B. Westbrook.

Original Series Description
This series continues the tradition of Wisconsin leadership in the field of American thought and culture, offering works by distinguished historians and emerging scholars that illuminate and interpret America’s intellectual and cultural history. The focus is on the twentieth and twenty-first century, but work from all periods of American history is represented. The series presents books of intellectual quality that make a significant scholarly contribution while also speaking to the broader community of thoughtful readers. The University of Wisconsin Press is particularly proud to publish this series since Merle Curti, author of the seminal study The Growth of American Thought and a founder of the field of American intellectual history, taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1942 until his retirement in 1968.

For books in a related series, see History of American Thought and Culture.

Paper $29.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-30034-03

ADD TO CART

The Cross of War
Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War
Matthew McCullough

“A very important piece of scholarship in the burgeoning literature on religion and war.”
—Andrew Murphy, Rutgers University

Paper $34.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-30044-9

ADD TO CART

Into New Territory
American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism
James G. Morgan

Shows how radical and revisionist scholars in the 1950s and 1960s first challenged the paradigm of denying that America had an empire.

The Education of an Anti-Imperialist
Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion
Richard Drake
Fall 2013

Cold War University
Madison and the New Left in the Sixties
Matthew Levin
Spring 2013

American Evangelicals and the 1960s
Edited by Axel R. Schäfer
Spring 2013

Channeling the Past
Politicizing History in Postwar America
Erik Christiansen
Fall 2012

Faithful Passages
American Catholicism in Literary Culture, 1844–1931
James Emmett Ryan
Fall 2012

The American Jeremiad
Sacvan Bercovitch
Spring 2012

Ernest Hemingway
Thought in Action
Mark Cirino
Spring 2012

The University and the People
Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
Scott M. Gelber
Fall 2011

Countercultural Conservatives
American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to the New Christian Right
Axel R. Schäfer
Fall 2011

Back to the Land
The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America
Dona Brown
Spring 2011

Robert Koehler’s The Strike
The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest
James M. Dennis
Spring 2011

Creating the College Man
American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890–1915
Daniel A. Clark
Spring 2010

Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal
Alienation, Participation, and Modernity
Shannon L. Mariotti
Fall 2009

The Trashing of Margaret Mead
Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
Paul Shankman
Fall 2009

Emerson’s Liberalism
Neal Dolan
Spring 2009

Imaginary Friends
Representing Quakers in American Culture, 1650–1950
James Emmett Ryan
Spring 2009

The Presidents We Imagine
Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online
Jeff Smith
Spring 2009

Picturing Indians
Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett’s Wisconsin Dells
Steven D. Hoelscher
Fall 2008

Seaway to the Future
American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal
Alexander Missal
Fall 2008

Unsafe for Democracy
World War I and the U.S. Justice Department’s Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent
William H. Thomas Jr.
Fall 2008

Margaret Fuller
Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age
Edited by Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli
Fall 2007

Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity
Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States
David A. Hollinger
Spring 2006