A study of American women’s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebell

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

Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images designed as a pair. It opens wi

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appr

This study explores the lives of nine Northern American female writers of the Civil War period. It examines how, through their writing, they engaged in the nati