Ann Fabian

Biographic Data

ID234499
NAMEAnn Fabian
GIVEN NAMESAnn
FAMILY NAMEFabian
SIGNATUREFABIAN A
AFFILIATIONSRutgers, the State University of New Jersey
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The Scientist Turned Spy: André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793 by Patrick Spero (review)

    Ann FabianARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2025

  • Reed Gochberg. Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America

    Open AccessAnn FabianARTICLEThe American Historical Review2024

    Journal Article Reed Gochberg. Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Get access Reed Gochberg. Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 272. Cloth $74.00. Ann Fabian Ann Fabian Rutgers University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical…

  • Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line

    Naa Oyo A Kwate, Mia Bay et al.BOOKRace and Retail2019

    Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves unwelcome at white-owned businesses. Race and Retail documents the extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have ofte…

  • Kenneth Cohen. They Will Have Their Game: Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic

    Open AccessAnn FabianARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    Decades ago, several of us turned our scholarly attention to theaters, racetracks, taverns, and gambling halls, thinking popular venues like these might contain clues to persistent patterns in American culture and politics. Studied closely, the behavior of theater audiences, tavern patrons, and racing fans could reveal the strains of class, race, and gender that shaped lives in the early American republic. The rough white masculinity of the sport…

  • Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century

    Ann FabianARTICLEJournal of American History2016Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century Get access By Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xiv, 467 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Page 1225, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav679 Published: 01 March 2016

  • Ricardo Roque. Headhunting and Colonialism: Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870–1930

    Ann FabianARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    Ricardo Roque's Headhunting and Colonialism is a work of historical anthropology that explores connections between the headhunting practiced in colonial wars in East Timor and a collection of human crania housed in the Coimbra University Museum in Portugal. Where did these skulls come from, Roque asks, and what can they tell us about colonial interactions in the Portuguese Empire? In the first half of the book, Roque describes a complex relations…

  • An education on a whale ship

    Ann FabianARTICLERethinking History2011

    A talk delivered to the newly elected members of the Rutgers University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 25 May 2010

  • Prize Reflections 2002 Western History Association Published Prizewinners

    Ann FabianARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2003

    Journal Article Prize Reflections 2002 Western History Association Published Prizewinners Get access Ann Fabian Ann Fabian associate professor of American Studies and History Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 3, Autu 2003, Pages 347–353, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/34.3.347 Published: 01 August 2003

  • A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922

    Ann Fabian, Susan Cummins MillerARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2002

    Journal Article A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800–1922 Get access A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800–1922. Edited by Miller Susan Cummins. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000. xiv + 447 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $21.95, paper.) Ann Fabian Ann Fabian Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…

  • The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America

    Alastair M Taylor, Alan Taylor et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America. By Ann Fabian. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xiv, 255 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-21862-0.) Get access Alan Taylor Alan Taylor University of California, Davis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1491–1492, https://doi.org/10.2307/…

  • Teach Me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era

    Ann Fabian, Mechal SobelARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2001

    Teach me Dreams: Learning to Use Dreams to Refashion the~ Self 17 2. Whites' Black Alien Other 55 3. Blacks' White Enemy Other 106 4. Making Men What They Should 135 5. Women Seeking What They Would Be 164 Coda: In Dreams Begins Responsibility 206 Notes 243 Bibliography 313 Index 357

  • The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America

    Anne M Boylan, Ann Fabian et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000

    The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America. By Ann Fabian. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 255. Illustrations. $39.95.) Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America. By James Perrin Warren. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 202. $40.00.) Here are two books about words, about written and spoken eloquence, about writer's or speaker's att…

  • Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing

    Ann Fabian, Samuel V Kennedy III et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing. By Samuel V. Kennedy III. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. xxii, 393 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8156-2799-8.) Get access Ann Fabian Ann Fabian City University of New York, New York New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 718–719, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568875 Publis…

  • A West for the Masochists among Us

    Ann FabianARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1997

    Journal Article A West for the Masochists among Us Get access Ann Fabian Ann Fabian is finishing a book on personal narratives in the nineteenth-century United States Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 3, Autumn 1997, Pages 311–314, https://doi.org/10.2307/971023 Published: 01 August 1997

  • Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest

    Ann Fabian, Richard MelzerARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1997

    Journal Article Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest Get access Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest. By Melzer Richard. (Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 1996. 176 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95, paper.) Ann Fabian Ann Fabian Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 1, Spring 1997, Pages 96–97, https://doi.org/10.2307/971234 Publish…

  • Wresting the West fromThe West: A Roundtable

    Ann FabianARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1997

    Journal Article Wresting the West from The West: A Roundtable Get access Ann Fabian Ann Fabian Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 3, Autumn 1997, Pages 295–296, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/28.3.295 Published: 01 August 1997

  • Gamblers in the Garden: The Political Consequences of the Fix

    Ann FabianARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1996

    Research Article| April 01 1996 Gamblers in the Garden: The Political Consequences of the Fix Ann Fabian Ann Fabian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (2): 501–521. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-2-501 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Fabian; Gamblers in the Garden: The Political Consequences of the Fix. South Atlan…

  • The Mythmaking Frame of Mind: Social Imagination and American Culture

    Ann Fabian, James Gilbert et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

  • Reading, Writing, and Living Dangerously

    Open AccessAnn Fabian, Jane TompkisARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1993

  • Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

    Ann Fabian, Wallace StegnerARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1993

    Journal Article Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West Get access Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. By Stegner Wallace. (New York: Random House, 1992. xxiii + 227 pp. $21.00.) Ann Fabian Ann Fabian Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 1993, Pages 70…

  • Card Sharps, Dream Books, & Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th-Century America

    Robert Tracy Mckenzie, Ann FabianARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article Card Sharps, Dream Books, & Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th-century America. By Ann Fabian. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. xiv + 250 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8014-2501-8.) Get access Card Sharps, Dream Books, & Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th-century America. By Fabian Ann. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. xiv + 250 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8014-2501-8.) Robert Tracy McKenzie Robert Tracy McKenzie University of Washington, Sea…

  • A Bettor Nation

    Louis P Masur, Ann FabianARTICLEReviews in American History1991

  • Card Sharps, Dream Books, & Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th-Century America

    David T Beito, Ann FabianARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1991

    David T. Beito; Card Sharps, Dream Books, & Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th-Century America, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 4, 1 Novembe

  • Culture and Comfort: People, Parlors, and Upholstery, 1850-1930 . Katherine C. Grier

    Ann FabianARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1989

  • People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas . John M. Findlay

    Ann FabianARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1987