Brooke L. Blower is Associate Professor of History at Boston University. She is the author of Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars. Mark Philip Bradley is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Vietnam at War and Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950 and coeditor of Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Transnational and International Perspectives and Truth Claims: Representations and Human Rights.

Reading The Familiar Made Strange feels like taking a walk through a well-signposted museum with halls that twist through different eras, types of archives and source material, and analytic approaches.... Students and scholars alike will be inspired by its lively prose, experimental tone, and frequent reminder that there remain 'different paths to blaze and more icons to reimagine from other angles and scales' (p. 8).- Shanon Fitzpatrick (Journal of American History) Warmly recommended to both skeptics and avid practitioners of transnational American Studies who will inevitably catch themselves pondering which other American icons and artifacts might lend themselves for a rereading in a transnational framework.(Amerikastudien)

• Introductionby Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley1. Watson and the Sharkby Brian DeLay2. "Oh! Susanna"by Brian Rouleau3. "Mary Lyon, Massachusetts"by Mary A. Renda4. William Howard Taft's Drawersby Andrew J. Rotter5. Josephine Baker's Banana Skirtby Matthew Pratt Guterl6. V-J Day, 1945, Times Squareby Brooke L. Blower7. The Kinsey Reportsby Naoko Shibusawa8. The Quiet Americanby Fredrik Logevall9. That Touch of Minkby Nick Cullather10. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof11. President Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Addressby Mark Philip BradleyConclusionby Daniel T. RodgersNotesContributorsIndex