Volume 40, no. 2
Summer 1999

Special Issue: American Studies: A Critical Retrospective

The Discipline
American Civilization As A Discipline?
Murray G. Murphey

Reconfiguring Academic Disiplines: The Emergence of American Studies
Paul Lauter

Reflections on American Studies, Minnesota, and the 1950s
Leo Marx

No Shining City on a Hill: American Studies and the Problem of Place
George Lipsitz

Case Studies
The Ideological Origins of American Studies at Yale
Michael Holzman

From Bridges to Text: Brooklyn Bridge, Myth and Symbol, American/Cultural Studies
Christopher B. Hoskins

Free Riders or Front Runners? The Role of Social Scientists in the American Studies Movement
Kathryn E. Kuhn and Wynne Walker Moskop

Views from Abroad
Mixed Blessings of Freedom: American Literature in Poland Under and After Communism
Jerzy Durczak

Hong Kong Students Look at the U.S.A.: American Studies in Hong Kong
Stacilee Ford and Gordon Slethug

Review Essay
What Are American Studies For? Some Practical Perspectives
James J. Farrell