Grusin investigates how the establishment of national parks participated in the production of American national identity after the Civil War.

A collection of 176 letters written by black soldiers in the Union army during the Civil War to black and abolitionist newspapers.

Eric Haralson examines the far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality in writings of Henry James and three authors greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. Emphasizing American masculinity portrayed in fiction between 1875 and 1935, Haralson traces James' engagement with sexual politics from his first novels of the 1870s to his "major phase" at the turn of the century.

Investigates the effect of politics on the work of T. S. Eliot, particularly the influence of French reactionary thinking.